Summary
Organization name
Casa del Lago
Tax id (EIN)
38-3934583
Causes
Community Improvement
Operating Budget
$1,000,000 - $2,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Hispanic or Latinx
Address
P.O. Box 540324Dallas, TX 75354
About
Impact Stories
The kids taught each other sign language so nobody sat out.
That is what happens at Casa del Lago. On September 17, it is easy to be part of it.
This summer, two boys met for the first time at Summer at the Lake. Marcos noticed Tadeo's hearing aid, tapped him on the shoulder and started signing. Both of their faces lit up.
They didn't stay a pair for long. One of our camp interns started learning sign language in her free time "just so I could talk to them more." Youth Corps members joined her practice circles. Then, at a morning assembly, the whole camp learned to sign good morning and hello, and campers began walking up to Marcos and Tadeo to spell out their own names.
By the end of camp, both boys were reading, playing and learning right alongside everyone else. In our intern's words, "there wasn't really a disadvantage."
Nobody made the kids do this. They welcomed their friends because that is what they had been welcomed into. Casa opened the door; the community walked through it, then held it open for each other.
Your support built that setting: campers across two sites this summer, with a preschool class joining for the first time. On Thursday, September 17, North Texas Giving Day counts your gift alongside thousands of others across the region, all on one day.
A gift of $30 is all it takes to say you're part of this. And thanks to a generous $10,000 matching gift, your gift goes twice as far.
Early giving is open August 27 through September 17.
Every gift of any size keeps Casa's doors open for families in Bachman Lake.
Mission
Our mission is to serve the Bachman Lake community with quality, faith-based educational programs and counseling to equip families to face the educational, spiritual, and material challenges in their lives.
We show the love of Jesus Christ to the Bachman Lake community through early childhood education, elementary school literacy, adult education, and pastoral counseling.
Needs
More than ever, we need your support so we can continue to serve families with our quality educational programs. We want to prepare children for Kindergarten by getting them school ready in our Early Childhood Education program, get elementary students reading at grade level in After School Reading, and equip adults with the language skills necessary to be successful in Adult Education. Friendships, a strong sense of community, and pastoral counseling services are also part of helping students at Casa del Lago achieve their goals inside and outside of the classroom.
Your support makes all this possible.
Your partnership is vital to this work!
Equity Statement
Casa del Lago serves all those who come to it in need from the Bachman Lake community.
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Organization Data
Dallas, TX 75354