Friday, May 3, 2024
A father and daughter created a nonprofit to help “Little by Little” for people living in the Tarahumara community in Chihuahua, Mexico.
“Little by Little” was created by Granbury resident Chris Holt and his daughter Kadie Hawley who lives in Argyle. Holt focuses on the business side of the nonprofit and seeking donations, where Hawley has been on the ground.
Hawley was the main creator behind Little by Little. She served as a therapy director in an assisted living facility and had one resident who inspired her. Mrs. Elaine Anderson had dementia and would pack her bag saying she needed to visit the Tarahumara people. Anderson recently passed away, so Hawley decided to donate to the kids of the community to honor Anderson.
After that donation, Hawley received receipts from Mexico showing her the real impact of her donation. After seeing with her own eyes the impact she made, she decided to make monthly donations alongside her husband Nate.
Every month she was able to see just what these donations did for the orphanage in Tarahumara.
In April, the orphanage requested Hawley and her husband make a bigger donation after one of the kids had a red, blistered face, and needed to be seen by a doctor.
“After that I was telling my husband, you and I can only do so much but if we make this into a thing and invite other people to join us, we can really do so much more than what we’re able to do just you and I,” Hawley said.
Hawley and her husband visited the orphanage, which is run by a married couple, for the first time in June.
“It was fantastic. They’re just doing such good things for these kids and are supplying basic needs. The more support and resources, the more they are going to be able to do that,” Hawley said. “We want to equip them to do more, and help them have consistent monetary resources coming in.”
Also on site of the orphanage is a school and a community center that will hopefully provide two meals a day to the community and transportation to the school in the future.
A kickoff party was held on Sept. 30 to make friends, family, and the community aware about this new nonprofit.
“It’s always so encouraging to me to talk about it to other people, and they say they want to help. It was really beautiful to see a community of people come around. It’s a bit of restoration of my faith in humanity,” Hawley said. “I do really feel like this is something I was meant to do.”
With a successful kickoff party, the couple bought 15 beds for the orphanage as they were sleeping on nap mats before.
When it comes to the future, Hawley and her entire family are looking forward to growing the nonprofit and seeing the change, they are able to make happen.
“It’s crazy what change can happen because of someone else's kindness,” Hawley said. ‘It’s really empowering to see the change happen right before your eyes. It’s been very humbling and fulfilling.”
The couple plans to visit again at the end of October.
For more information on the nonprofit or to donate visit https://littlebylittlemx.org/.
