MOM Projects

Annunciation Maternity Home is the only Nationally Accredited maternity home in Texas licensed to provide free services to young women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.

Located in Georgetown, Texas, Annunciation can assist up to 26 young women, and their children, during pregnancy and for up to two years after the birth of her baby.

Our program offers FREE:

• Housing
• Access to Medical Services
• Transportation Services
• University of Texas Charter High School
• Access to Continuing Education Programs
• Job Assistance o Infant Development Center
• Life Skills Classes o Individual and Family Counseling

The goal of Annunciation is to empower our clients with the education, skills, and support needed to become independent, self-sufficient individuals.

Annunciation Maternity Home is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization.

Address: 3610 Shell Rd, Georgetown, TX 78628,  Phone: (512) 864-7755

Cameron Park Colonia - Brownsville
After School Tutorial Project

In 2002, Cameron Park Colonia became a MOM project for the Catholic Daughters in Texas. The After School Tutorial Program was organized as part of "Proyecto Juan Diego", an initiative to improve the quality of life in Cameron Park Colonia. The tutors help the students with their homework in science, English and mathematics. The students use old computers donated by the community or private donors, such as Texas CDA & JCDA.

Cameron Park Colonia is located in Brownsville, Texas. According to the Census Bureau, this is the poorest place in the United States. Home to the poorest immigrants, it is one of the biggest and oldest of about 1,800 Colonias, shabby, unplanned, scantily regulated conglomerations of shacks, trailers and tumbledown houses that dot the Texas and Mexico border.

But in the last decade or so, a new feature of hope has gained a tentative toehold in Cameron Park and some other Colonias amid the familiar terrain of decrepit housing, rusted-out cars, inadequate sewers and terrible roads. Cameron Park has started, slowly but consistently, to look less like Dante's Inferno and more like neighborhoods that are simply very poor.

The streets are now paved, no longer disintegrate into impassable mud pits after it rains. The Catholic Church, school and clinic have changed the face and future of the community. Nearly all houses have been connected to running water and electricity, and many have stoves, refrigerators, indoor plumbing, and toilets. In a part of the world where temperatures reach and remain at 100 degrees for weeks on end, some families have managed to buy air conditioners to cool their bedrooms.

Texas CDA and JCDA have made remarkable contributions to the progress at Cameron Park. Monetary donations and truck loads of personal and household items have created a new meaning to the saying “from trash to treasure.” It’s bringing life and light into darkness and despair. One Catholic Daughters court actually donated a mobile home! There are no limitations to the outreached arm of our CDA sisters, their love, focus, and compassion.

Today at least 400,000 people live in Texas Colonias. They may be out of sight, but they are not out of mind to those who embrace God’s word with action; "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40

Proyecto Juan Diego
P.O. Box 8038 (mailing)
2226 Eduardo Ave.
Brownsville, TX 78526

Donations/checks should be made payable to: Proyecto Juan Diego

Donations/parcels (no food) should be sent by UPS to:
Proyecto Juan Diego
c/o Maria Elena de la O
2218 Carlos Ave.
Brownsville, TX 78526

Items Needed: Adult, children and baby clothing; slightly used shoes; toys; school supplies; craft supplies; toiletries; bed linens; fabric for sewing; vitamins and over the counter medicines; Rosaries and Holy Cards; educational and religious books.

Larger items greatly needed are: working computers and printers; working appliances; RV and trailer homes (to use as a home); sewing machines; electric and manual and tools.

A shelter in Houston dedicated to the care of battered, helpless, souls who have no place else to go. The facility, which is totally supported by voluntary donations and operates without governmental help, has the full support of the Houston-Galveston diocese.

After a visit by co-chairmen Lillian Hansen and Cathy Bittner, together with Dee Scheetz, Past State Regent and Della Santos, Past State Treasurer, it was determined that the project would be taken to the state board. The state board voted and determined Catholic Daughters could be of immense help, especially in the area of battered and pregnant women at the women's shelter.

There is a medical clinic in place and all kinds of medical and dental supplies, even wheel chairs, are sorely needed. The women are most often accompanied by their children, so again, CDA can be of help in that area with women's and children's necessities. Casa Juan tries to get people on their feet by getting them into small apartments and helping them find jobs.

They could use

• all kinds of kitchen supplies
• cleaning supplies
• pots and pans
• bowls
• bedding
• including mattresses, etc.

Casa Juan Diego will be an opportunity for the many generous Catholic Daughters in the Houston area to give help right in their own neighborhood. The shelter is located at 4818 Rose Street (near Shepard and I-10) and the directors, Frank & Mary Zwick, can be reached at 713-869-7376 or e-mail info@cjd.org . Mailing address:

Casa Juan Diego
P.O. Box 70113
Houston, TX  77270.

Deliver by car, or ship UPS:

Casa Juan Diego
4818 Rose St.
Houston, TX  77007

The Mother Teresa's Sisters, Missionaries of Charity, Dallas, serve the poorest of the poor, both spiritually and monetarily. They provide essential foods to over 400 families per month, all of whom have been carefully screened by the Sisters to ensure that they are truly in need. Each week bags are filled with rice, beans, flour, fresh fruits, vegetables and breads purchased with donations or brought by individuals and organizations.

The Sisters also maintain the Our Lady of Guadalupe Maternity Shelter for homeless pregnant women by providing a safe place to rest while protecting the lives of their unborn babies. After giving birth, the mothers are helped to start anew in the outside world.

The Sisters of Charity teach catechism classes and summer programs at the St. James Parish in Dallas. They help many students prepare for school by obtaining school supplies and new shoes. It is not unusual to see many of the students helping the Sisters with the work of serving the many in need. The Sisters provide Thanksgiving turkeys and children’s Christmas parties with gifts for entire families that would have nothing otherwise. The Sisters count on Divine Providence to bring them the things they need.

All CDA courts are invited to participate in this most worthy cause.
Suggestions for helping:

• Newborn clothing, sleepers, socks, receiving blankets.
• Baby supplies – diapers (all sizes), wipes, lotion, powder, baby shampoo, soap.
• Maternity, infant and small children’s clothing.
• Women’s shampoo, conditioner, lotion, deodorant, toothpaste, tissues, razors
• Food
• Money – for bus passes, personal items, basic necessities

All volunteers: Gardening outdoors (PLEASE bring your own gloves!).

Female volunteers: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Help clean the Our Lady of Guadalupe Maternity Shelter for homeless pregnant women.