John Kitchin:  Engineer, Author, Minister

This page can connect you to many Public Service websites, either to find what you need, or for you to donate your time, money, food, clothing, or whatever.  See below on paper print-outs, or at right on a computer monitor.

This page also tells you how to donate to this website and to the Tijuana Rescue Mission which publishes it.  I've been retired and disabled a few years now, and everybody (especially us work-a-holics) needs a hobby to stay busy.  My hobby is Public Service to poor people like me.  That results in this website, and also the Rescue Mission.

Why Tijuana?  Don't we have way enough problems with poverty and homelessness in San Diego?  Sure, and this website Section B (Pages at right beginning with "B") is dedicated primarily to San Diego's poor.  So is Section C.  However, regarding food programs, Tijuana is having a hundred times more problems than San Diego.

Tourism is almost zero, drug lords have taken over the government, and most police have been forced into corruption or already killed.  You think you got problems in the United States?  Yes, we do, but those people either deported to TJ or forced to live there for lack of enough money to live in San Diego have a way bigger set of problems!

Everyone at my mission is an American, speaks English, and many are U.S. citizens.  Others, were smuggled into the US shortly after birth, and raised as US people in US schools, taught only English, and later deported while an adult!  Very sad.  Smuggling children into the United States should be punished with the Death Penalty!  It results in the most horrific cases of misery that I have ever seen.  The kind I help to treat.

The mission operates on my Disability Income as its only source of funding.  Once in awhile, there will be income from the companies in A-Section, too.  That's all.  I have to pay US taxes on donations and business profits, unless I get a huge donation to incorporate as a non-profit, or become sponsored by a current non-profit.  The easiest way to "donate" is to do business with me, in Section A.

Mission Monthly Budget Statement:

A.)  Transportaton:  $18 Trolley, $60 Mexican buses (30 days x 2 directions x $1.)=$78

B.)  Internet:  $10 Yahoo, $0 libraries, $60 for 60 hours in TJ.=$70

C.)  Electricity, $65 average.

D.)  Gas or propane, $20, average.

E.)  Water, $6 washing, $20 drinking (20 six-gallon carboys at $1 each.)=$26

F.)  Advertising, none.

G.)  Entertainment, none.

H.)  Cleaning supplies:  Trashbags, detergents for hair-laundry-dishes, scouring, mops, etc., $6

I.)  Medicine:  aspirin, e-mycine, loperamine, alcohol swabs, ampicillin, sulfulamide, laxatives, $20

J.)  Food prep supplies:  wax paper, foil, plastic bags, cups, plates, knives-forks-spoons, etc.  $60.

K.)  Food, $15 a day. = $450 per month.

L.)  Storage:  utensils, repair equipment, food, pencils, clothing blankets, much more, $105 per month.

M.)  Business rent:  $200 per month.

TOTAL EXPENSES:  $1,100 PER MONTH.

Income:  $929 donated by me (My SSI check).  Some months there is income from heating & air conditioning work, or a small donation.  Other months, we go without propane, transportation, cleaning supplies, or medicine.  Or, some days we go without food.

Net Loss Per Month:  $171.  Current Indebtedness:  $350.

Willing to go with a credit or debit card for purchases, thus documenting same.  Looking for sponsors.  To donate one-time, send a check or money order to:  John Kitchin, PO Box 702, Alpine, CA  91903.  Telephone is currently disconnected (619) 390-5000, USA.  Please indicate whether you want your donation listed, with your name published, or no publication of your name or organization.  To donate completely anonymously, send a Money Order payable to John Kitchin, include no return address, and KEEP THE RECEIPT.  I will publish the serial number of the money order, so you know I got it.  If I never receive it, go get a refund, using the receipt.  Understand?

TO BECOME A SPONSOR, SEND AN E-MAIL TO JK@NZ9F.com.  Or, write me a letter at the above address.  Thanks, and may God (or gods) bless you, depending upon your religious beliefs.  What are my beliefs?  I believe it's important for you to have your own, valid, beliefs, within reason.  That's all.

Public Service Groups and Their Websites:

NOT A COMPLETE LIST, OF COURSE:

Father Joe's Villages: 

www.neighbor.org

1-800-HOMELESS

Salvation Army:  www.kroccenter.org/donate/

Horizon Urban Ministries:  www.humsd.org/

Ladle Fellowship:  www.fpcsd.org/serve/ladle/ladle.html

Chabad Beth Israel:  www.cbisd.org

Salvation Army Food Pantry:  www.sandiego.salvationarmy.org

San Diego Food Bank:  www.sandiegofoodbank.org

Jewish Family Services:  www.jfssd.org

Feeding America:  www.feedingamericasd.org

Interfaith Community Services:  www.interfaithservices.org

North County Community Services:  www.northcountycommunityservices.org