Manos Volunteers have become somewhat of storytellers over time, for the mere fact that there are so many special moments shared. These are the stories that warm the heart and feed the soul!
Flower Angel: After a 3-hour traffic delay on the one-road up the mountain leading to their village, plans quickly changed. >Read More
Under the Milky Way: The Milky Way arches over the sky of an arid land. On occasion, the dangerous Tecate-Tijuana Libre highway beeps or rumbles with 18-wheelers. Coyotes can be heard in the distance, and bats dart up and down under the starlight. Around the crackling of a small fire, somewhere in these big-boulder-mountains, laughter lights the night. >Read More
Pops: It is our pleasure to share this fireside story with you about a man born in 1947 in Shanghai. He grew up in a time and country of revolution and of hardship, of change and growth. >Read More
We are Volunteers: An early December morning in Southern California and John Alvarez’s phone buzzes as a text came in from Ferny Coipel in Miami. >Read More