Community – Fundación La Puerta

Our city-wide campaigns have led to the preservation of the Tecate River, established community gardens provided urban planning for a green corridor along the Tecate River which is now home to Tecate’s museums and performing arts center. We have sparked partnerships and woven networks with other organizations to preserve and protect our diminishing wild spaces.

The community garden of Comité Mujeres Lluvia del Sur, a group of neighbors from La Colosio in Tecate.

For twenty five years, Fundación La Puerta has worked with neighborhood and community groups leading river clean ups, participating in citizen's committees to protect the watershed and monitoring policies that effect the natural environment in our watershed.

Homeless encampments within the river corridor are a new challenge for Tecate. Parks and walkways, seven miles of urban river once free of trash, are no longer healthy or safe. These conditions require a coordinated effort between civil society, business and the city government.

Advocacy and urban planning

In 2023 we: Organized visits to the San Diego River Park Foundation and Santee, supported local environmental organizations, presented at three conferences in major cities in Mexico, participated in urban planning policies through official channels such as El Comité Especial del Río.