Green Bay Press-Gazette
By Kelley Bruss

Casa Hogar is a home for both orphaned children and those whose parents can’t care for them. It’s the only home in its area that provides a place for children with disabilities and those children make up about one-third of the home’s residents.

Green Bay Press Gazette
By Jean Peerenboom

While a freshman in college, Graves went to the mission of Casa Hogar. “My first trip was a huge eye-opener,” she said. “I’d never seen living conditions like that before. … It made me realize I could do something about it.”

The Waterbury Republican
by David Krechevsky

Each time Mexican authorities changed the rules, he adjusted and refused to quit. His perseverance, steeled by his love for the orphans, saw him through. It was a story I was glad to tell.

The Waterbury Republican
By Ben Conery

“They’re living at a level that we just can’t, in good conscience, let exist,” Nurnberger said Friday during the launch of a new fundraising effort for the orphanage in Oaxaca.

In his effort to help Casa Hogar, a struggling Mexican orphanage for special needs children, Nurnberger left Naugatuck in July aboard a yellow school bus filled with medical supplies, toiletries, clothing, toys – and 80 individually personalized quilts for each child.

The Waterbury Republican American
By David Krechevsky

“That’s our main problem. We’re interacting with every single possible department in the government. Next time we do a donation, we’ll do a donation of just one item, like clothing. Then we’ll have to deal with just one secretary.”

Westport News
By Dan Woog

Margot Hayward throws herself into every community activity. But right now her soul is thousands of miles south of Westport, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Everyday she logs onto simplysmiles.org, and reads details of 80 orphans she has never met, a magic bus and a young man from upstate Connecticut.

The Waterbury Republican American
By David Krechevsky

Three months after the missionary departed his native Naugatuck for the needy orphanage in Central Mexico, Nurnberger finally arrived at Casa Hogar on Tuesday bearing toys aboard the orphanage’s van.

Waterbury Republican American
By David Krechevsky

“The poor kids are freaking out. They’ve been waiting for this since February,” Nurnberger said Friday during a phone interview. Staying with friends, they have been keeping in phone contact with Carol and Francisco Marin, who run the orphanage called Casa Hogar and who have been tracking the paperwork up the chain of command.

The Waterbury Republican
by David Krechevsky

As the rainy season began in Oaxaca and the roads resembled rivers and the old microbus kept breaking down taking children to and from school, it was an encouraging truth to know that Bryan would be coming with a school bus for the children…