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About

Love At Work was founded in 2001 as a means of rescuing street children in Latin America. Founder and Director Neil Millman is a geographer/ photographer/ social entrepreneur who observed the conditions of street children over a 30-year period of world travel that included 66 countries. The sight of poverty appalled him.

In 2001 Millman became an advocate for street kids and undertook a photo expedition to Mexico and Guatemala to study the problem firsthand. The journey resulted in a video documentary and a book entitled Miraculous Journey.

On that journey Neil met Margarita Cortes, a naturalized immigrant from Puebla, Mexico whom he soon married. As a pediatric dental assistant, Margarita has been responsible for organizing dental service projects to shelters in Mexico City. Since 2002 the Millmans have visited Mexico and Colombia every year, providing financial, material, and volunteer assistance to Casa Ecuador and other shelters, orphanages, and nonprofit organizations. Love At Work is located in Provo, Utah and has a governing board of three members.

In 2014 the plight of thousands of children from Mexico and Central America trying to reach the United States became big but short-lived news. To address the issue of juvenile refugees Neil Millman visited Tijuana with the Charity Anywhere Foundation and began a collaboration with Aldeas Infantiles SOS orphanage. Director Erendira Trujillo introduced him to several other shelters, as well as the Canoe Foundation daycare center for children with physical and cognitive disabilities.

Director

Neil Millman

Director

Professor Neil Millman is a Geographer who did his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University and his postgraduate studies at Utah State University. Throughout his life Millman traveled extensively. After nearly thirty years of world travel he has visited sixty-six countries and lived in ten. Millman was always concerned about the plight of the poor, especially childhood poverty. As the result of a deep religious experience he had in 2000 he became an advocate for street children and created the Love At Work Foundation. In dealing with disadvantaged children in particular and the poor in general, Neil Millman has sought solutions to a wide range of problems. As a Social Entrepreneur he seeks ways of lifting children out of poverty by implementing innovative programs in education, health, and business. In addition to his love for travel, Neil Millman is a proficient photographer, videographer, and writer who has chronicled his many adventures. Along with his Mexican-born wife Margarita he travels annually to Mexico and Colombia to carry out humanitarian outreach missions.

Principle Partners

Professor Arnulfo Reyes

CAMION Proeduca Director

CAMION Proeduca's mission is to provide children in very poor communities with Preventive Education; a way of obtaining moral leadership and educational guidance to avoid crime. It also works with poor families by enabling them to use limited resources to foster community therapy.

Padre Jaime

Fundacion CANOA Director

Fundacion CANOA, basin in Tijuana, is a clinic for poor children with cognitive and physical disabilities. This program utilizes community therapy.

Tito Momen

First Generation Project Director

First Generation Project assists other migrants and refugees in adapting to new life in America. Tito is a Muslim convert to the LDS Church and author of: My Name Used to be Muhammad.

Professor Jose Vallejo

Fundacion Renacimiento shelter Director

Fundacion Renacimiento is basde in Mexico City. Professor Vallejo also continues to teach law at the Polytechnic Institute.

Heroes We Support

Jose Betancur

Jose is from Medellin, Colombia. HE created Fundacion Semilla que Crece to help recovering drug addicts and homeless seniors.

Dr. Erendira Trujillo

Dr. Trujillo is Director of Aldeas Infantiles SOS, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico with 100 kids.

Gordon Carter

Gordon of the Charity Anywhere Foundation in Bountiful, Utah conducts various humanitarian projects in Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador.

Gabriel Restreppo

Gabriel himself a former street kid, directs Amigos de la Alegria for 90 boys from destitute families outside of Medellin, Colombia.

Rosaria Moreno

Rosaria was an Olympic runner. As a recovering alcoholic she now directs Casa Por Todos shelter and coaches kids for the annual street olympics.

Gabriel Rodriguez

Gabriel runs an appliance repair shop in Mexico City that employs recovering addicts. He is a great mentor and citizen.

Yolanda Belassario

Yolanda runs Jardin de Amor, a shelter for children of parents too poor to care for them in Medellin, Colombia.

Sally Pamploma

Sally runs a charity that provides nutrition and education to dozens of poor children in Medellin.