Charity gifts no longer face year long delay in crossing border

At the end of last year the Thousand Oaks Rotary Club in California decided to donate an expensive piece of equipment to the Castro-Limon Foundation in Tijuana, a non-profit working to take care of children and families battling cancer.

But the medical equipment, worth over 25 thousand dollars, spent eight months in a Mexican Customs warehouse in Tijuana before being allowed to cross the border, in what is a common experience told by many donors from the US that wish to give to Mexican non-profits.

Amy Carstensen, Senior Program Officer International Community Foundation in Sorrento Valley California, said the problem with ...

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