Paper Houses Across the Border, Inc. - An Outline

A Houston Police Sergeant gets lost in a border-town and ends up on a dirt road filled with cardboard houses.

He returns to search other border-towns to see if this is a common situation.

The sergeant begins bringing beans and rice to the people and is taken to a shelter for children that is in desperate need of help. He begins to support the shelter.

The Houston Police Officers' Union hears about the sergeant and prints a four-page article in the union paper. Response to the article is so positive that the union funds the cost of establishing a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation for the sergeant.

The Houston Chronicle runs a four page front page story and with a few years, other major news outlets, including People Magazine, investigate the sergeant, his organization and the situation in the colonias.

Paper Houses Across the Border supports shelters for children, distributes food, clothing and medicine, pays for thousands of meals for school children, supports a drug rehabilitation center, builds school cafeterias, provides school supplies, repairs school buildings, helps people with medical bills to find work, pay for life changing medical treatment, and beings hundreds of people into the colonias.

See video, photos, and learn more at http://paperhouses.org.