Matamoros, Mexico is located at the southernmost tip of the Texas-Mexico border, directly across Brownsville, TX. The city of Matamoros is home to over 500,000 people, of which, 40% are unemployed and those who are able to find work earn less than 2 dollars a day.

James 1:27 says, "Religion that God our Father accepts is pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world."