Community for Children’s fundamental commitment is to training a new community of physicians dedicated to the vision of a world where all children have the right to enjoy the highest attainable level of health, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the vision of a world where communities join together in partnership to assure that all children and adolescents attain their fullest potential; and to the vision of a world of hope for the most vulnerable and poorest of our children.
At the Border and Beyond
Community for Children – At the Border and Beyond begins at the junction of Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) and Northern Mexico, including the cities of Ciudad Victoria and Matamoros. The LRGV is one of the most medically underserved and impoverished areas in the U.S. Major cities include Brownsville, Harlingen, and McAllen on the U.S. side. Poverty is a way of life for many of the children living on both sides of the border of Mexico and Texas.