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Building homes & Lives
CPC works side-by-side with Mexican families to help provide a better way of life..
Constructores Para Cristo’s construction program helps provide basic housing for poor, working-class Mexican families who often live in desperate conditions.
Recipients of these simple, but adequate three room houses develop a greater pride of ownership as they work side-by-side with teams from the United States to help build their new home.
Years of experience has resulted in a home design and construction methods that gets the building job done quickly and efficiently.
While it only takes a team of volunteers four and a half days to build a house, planning and preparation for building over 20 of these homes each summer requires months of advance planning by American and Mexican staff members, including site selection and preparation, material ordering, and the recruiting of volunteers.
CPC hosts as many as four teams at a time, and by the end of the building season over 800 volunteers will have committed a week of their lives to make a profound difference in the lives of these Mexican families.
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Mexico
The United Mexican States are a federation of thirty-one free and sovereign states which form a Union that exercises jurisdiction over the Federal District and other territories.
Each state has its own constitution and congress, as well as a judiciary, and its citizens elect by direct voting, a governor (gobernador) for a six-year term, as well as representatives (diputados locales) to their respective state congresses, for three-year terms.
The 31 states and the Federal District are collectively called "federal entities", and all are equally represented in the Congress of the Union.
Mexican states are also divided into municipalities (municipios), the smallest official political entity in the country, governed by a mayor or "municipal president" (presidente municipal), elected by its residents by plurality. Municipalities can be further subdivided into non-autonomous boroughs or in semi-autonomous auxiliary presidencies.
Constitutionally, Mexico City, as the capital of the federation and seat of the powers of the Union, is the Federal District, a special political division in Mexico that belongs to the federation as a whole and not to a particular state, and as such, has more limited local rule than the nation's states.
Nonetheless, since 1987 it has progressively gained a greater degree of autonomy, and residents now elect a head of government (Jefe de Gobierno) and representatives of a Legislative Assembly directly. Unlike the states, the Federal District does not have a constitution but a statute of government. Mexico City is conterminous and coextensive with the Federal District.
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