Embrace the Dream Foundation (EDF) is a non profit, Christian mission organization that provides love and care for orphaned and abandoned children in Mexico.  EDF supports nine orphanages in Mexico.  The principle home we support is Casa Hogar La Familia in Palmarito in the State of Puebla about three hours east of Mexico City. La Familia is currently home for 29 children ranging in age from one-and-a-half to 18 years of age.

Bill Lee, president, founded EDF after spending nine years leading mission teams to Mexico.  In 2009, EDF and its partner organizations achieved its goal to raise over $100,000 to complete construction of a new orphanage that will initially include a two-story main home with the children housed on the ground floor.  Now that the main home has been completed, fundraising will begin to construct a home for teenage boys and a home for teenage girls.  Each of the teenage dormitories will accommodate 24 children and each will cost an estimated $100,000 to build.  When the two new buildlings are completed, La Familia will house approximately 96 children. 

Most of the children we care for come from single or divorced mothers who have been abandoned by fathers. They can not (or will not) be responsible for their children. We also care for young mothers who choose to stay with their infants and live with them at La Familia.

EDF not only provides lodging for the children, but in addition strives to ensure that each child has a better future.  The children are taught from childhood that to support a family, they must finish high school and go on to either technical school or university.  Academic and Christian education are integral parts of each child’s daily regimen.

For more information about Embrace the Dream Foundation, you may email Bill Lee at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  EDF’s mailing address is PO Box 5558, Greenville, SC 29606.