International Grantmaking
IPODERAC
Founded with grit and determination by two local women, IPODERAC began in Puebla, Mexico, in 1971. Today, the campus consists of six residence houses, beds for 72 boys, a stable for some 200 goats, and a goat cheese production facility which covers roughly 60 percent of the orphanage’s operating expenses. Since 1997, the Cordillera Foundation has supported the boys of IPODERAC by helping to build a new centralized kitchen, to construct a treatment plant for water purification, and to renovate the residence houses, some of which exceed 35 years of uninterrupted use.
The primary support provided to IPODERAC by Cordillera, however, is for expenses associated with the education of the boys it serves. For more than ten years, Cordillera has provided scholarship funding for the unmet financial need of any youth who achieves admission to college and maintains an acceptable grade point average. Today, college graduates from IPODERAC include those who earned degrees in law, gastronomy, and psychology, among other disciplines. Recently, Cordillera added support for a slightly younger generation of residents of IPODERAC by supporting the expenses of any boy who attends a technical-oriented private high school.
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