Fronteras Unlimited is a non-profit, community motivated organization devoted to reclaiming the border communities of the Big Bend for their residents.  Fronteras is endeavoring to stabilize the border area of the Big Bend using free trade commerce, education, and the cooperation that has traditionally made the Big Bend the uniquely peaceful border it has been in the past.

The border closures of 2002 have devastated the economies of our Mexican neighbors.  In an effort to put an end to the desperation of these remote desert communities, Fronteras is helping them to create a stable, independent, legal and cooperative economy of their own, helping them to make their lives in the Chihuahuan desert sustainable, and endeavoring to save them from the poverty of much of their nation.  In doing so, Fronteras hopes also to prevent an increase in lawlessness along our border and to preserve the cooperation between our neighbors and ourselves, which has created a traditionally safe and trustful border for nearly five generations.

The mission of Fronteras is three-fold:

1. To preserve the mutual trust and cooperation which has been a hallmark of the Big Bend for over a hundred years;
2. To alleviate the desperation and poverty of our once-prosperous neighbors by helping them to create their own sustainable economy;
3. To provide an example of innovative, peaceful cooperation and prosperity to other areas of the border that so desperately need it.

Fronteras firmly believes that putting up a fence, imaginary or otherwise, between peoples creates poverty, chaos, fear, and violence.  In consciously choosing to love our neighbors rather than fear them, we will demonstrate the power of communities to transcend social deterioration and preserve the way of life that is dear to our community as a whole.  Our Projects >>

Journal Entry - November 2007

Thank you so much for your interest in Boquillas del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico and Fronteras Unlimited.  We have gone from 3 quilters to 28 fabric workers making finished quilts, embroidering tea towels, crocheting tablecloths, etc. and have generated a goodly amount of hope, confidence and motivation where before there was none.  At present, the women of Boquillas are working to free themselves from their dependence on us for supplies, materials and markets. We will continue to have quilt shows every year to keep the ladies supported, however, and will have them in various locations; next year we hope to have one in Marfa around the first week of October and we have a date set for November 17^th at St. Stephen’s School in Houston.  While the ladies develop their own textile co-op, with guidance, we hope to concentrate more on education.  We are hoping to collect 8 used laptops (Windows 98 or better); 4 for the elementary school in Boquillas and 4 for the secondary school in Las Norias (we have a satellite dish that may be able to work at the secondary school) – we have installed sufficient solar panels for this equipment already.  We then hope to use whatever proceeds from scorpion and stick sales (as well as donations) to start sending the most promising Boquillas teens on to “preppa” (2 year preparatory high school) and then on to college – both in Melchor Muzquiz, 4 hours away from Boquillas. 

You can help by:

Finding us 8 workable used laptops (windows 98 or better)

4 workable printers with generic ink cartridges

Buy a Boquillas quilt at 432-371-3127.  We also sell quilt tops, embroidered tea towels, T-shirts, crocheted tablecloths and wall hangings. If we don’t answer the phone please leave a message and someone will call you back promptly.  We now take credit cards.

Commit to sending a child on to college.  These youngsters have never had the privilege of choice and you could help them have the greatest choice of all.

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