Shining Together for a Better World

Happenings

These are some of the cool things we do. Please join us in spreading love and help to those in need.

2025-2026 Christmas-New year celebration with children in Oquendo, Callao, Peru, featuring gifts, hot chocolate and panettone.

People Newspapers Youth on the Rise 2022

We are so humbled and grateful to People Newspapers and to the people of the Park Cities for nominating us and featuring us as Youth on the Rise. We will be eternally thankful for this.

https://peoplenewspapers.com/2022/03/24/sebastian-and-valentina-calderon-youth-on-the-rise/

https://peoplenewspapers.com/2022/03/16/esd-students-working-to-help-ukrainian-children/

NBC 5 DFW Feature

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/something-good/little-girl-and-her-family-doing-somethinggood-for-kids-in-need/2629055/  

Family Gateway Dallas Gift Giveaway

Wrapping up gifts with the help of our beloved teachers and classmates, and delivering them to Family Gateway.

Huge thanks to New York Sub HP for donating their delicious sandwiches to Family Gateway on 7/6/2021. Please visit them at 3411 Asbury St, Dallas, TX, 75205.

Happy to be back at Family Gateway with gifts to celebrate the wonderful moms on Mother’s Day 2021

Arriving @Family Gateway to deliver Christmas 2020 gifts. We’re so excited and grateful to be able to do this.

Finished wrapping up Christmas 2020 gifts with the help of my class mates. So lucky to have them be part of our labor of love.
@Family Gateway Shelter getting ready to unload a yummy BBQ 2020Thanksgiving meal
Delivering a yummy BBQ Thanksgiving 2020 meal @familygateway
@Family Gateway with Mom and Dad delivering a yummy BBQ Thanksgiving meal
Delivering a little love for Halloween 2020 @Family Gateway Family Shelter with our parents during this difficult year.
Valentina and Sebastian Halloween 2020 love @Family Gateway Family Shelter,
Delivering delicious candy for Halloween 2020 @Family Gateway Family Shelter with a staff member
Unipaw’s Adventures books at Interabang Bookstore. All proceeds were donated to Shiningbrownies.org
Sebastian art sales proceeds were donated to Shiningbrownies.org
Sebastian creating more art to sell and collect proceeds for his non-profit

We are a non profit under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501 (c) (3)