PHOENIX, Arizona June 12, 2006 — Juan Gonzales & his wife, Lupe, found help where they least expected it, he on the free throw line, she swathed in sweats in an aerobics class and the kids in child care watched by licensed caregivers and entertained with Loteria, a special Mexican children's game.

It will happen at the 120,000 square foot activities center of Ayuda where pumping iron and getting citizenship classes will go hand and hand.

Ayuda is a new concept of a non profit corporation full service assistance and services megacenter, a "24/7" sprawling village now being planned for central Phoenix with a national strategy to establish Ayuda Centers in all medium and large cities in the USA. Large cities will have multiple Ayuda Centers to meet the growing demands of the ever increasing Hispanic population.

The primary purpose will be to help Hispanics become Americans. Working as an extension of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, Ayuda will provide free immigration services to work and live in the USA.

Each Ayuda center will offer many of the conveniences and trappings of secular life wrapped around a spiritual core. It will be possible to eat, shop, go to citizenship school, learn English, get a GED, get help with health services, opening a bank account, understanding an insurance policy, help with income taxes, help with immigration services, scale a rock climbing wall and attend religious services, all without leaving the grounds.

The list of services and assistance is endless for recent Hispanic immigrants in need of help in living and working in the USA to native born Hispanics who want to own/expand their own business or understand which retirement plan to investment in for the future.

The Ayuda concept is being developed by Jon Garrido, former Wal Mart real estate developer now owner & CEO of Hispanic News, president of Arizona Law and Education Center, chairman of the Hispanic News Political Action Committee and chairman of Hispanics Move to Democrats.

Negotiations are underway in Phoenix to obtain a former 120,000 square foot store and convert it for use.

After the central Ayuda in Phoenix, two additional centers are planned for the Phoenix area, one in Tucson and then Ayuda will move on to southern California and east to Texas with first phase centers becoming operational in 2008.

As a prototype is developed, other Ayuda Centers using the model will be developed across the United States.

Each Ayuda Center will be designed like a mall with the religious center being the anchor tenant. Hallways 20 feet wide with curves enhance "people flow." Preschoolers frolic at a Disneyesque play land, with mazes. There is an education wing for immigration classes such as citizenship and immigration processing to obtain visas, how to open a bank account, get a driver's license, how to get health care and a concert hall size atrium with giant monitors that itemize the day's offerings: classes, movies, festivals, senior activities, to church activities.

Amenities at the gym include basketball courts and a Cybex health club where the music is Christian Spanish and English and the rules ban cursing even during the crunch.

Ayuda Centers will become civic in a way unimaginable since the 13th century and its cathedral towns. Ayuda Centers will be part mall, part extended family and part town square.

By making Ayuda Centers nearly possible to inhabit from morning to night, cradle to grave, Ayuda Centers can shelter Hispanics from a broader society that seems unsafe, unpredictable and out of control, underscored by school shootings and terrorism. Ayuda Centers with security as a high priority will become safe harbors for Hispanic families, individuals and activities conducive to maintaining and enriching Hispanic traditions and conservative religious and cultural morals.

For more information, contact us directly at Ayuda.

Programs and Services

Family Services

• The only way of assisting a student stay in school and do well in school is to enable the student's family in providing support from a stress free family environment. Family services offered to all members of the family to increase support for each student. This can be in the form of health services, child care for brothers and sisters, food, emergency financial assistance, jobs for parents, counseling, recreational family outings and encouragement of participating in the school's after school community

• A concept that could be adapted to Ayuda: To Help Poor be Pupils, Not Wage Earners, Brazil Pays Parents

Health Care Services

Hispanic News Diabetes Center Partners with Ayuda to Prepare Grant Application

• The Hispanic News Diabetes Center providing diabetes care and nutrition

• Health Care Clinic

• Assistance with purchasing prescription drugs

• Housing for AIDS patients

• Health Insurance advocacy and help obtaining HMO care

• Assistance to help obtain health insurance, fill out forms

• Communicating with health care providers

• Assistance in obtaining doctor's appointments

• Workshops in health awareness to provide heath education in Ayuda center and using two 18 wheelers equipped as traveling classrooms to provide mobile learning centers directly in neighborhoods alternating among all neighborhoods.

Social Services

• Assistance in finding schools and social networks

• Assistance in finding jobs

• Translating for court procedures

• Financial emergency assistance provided to pay rent, utilities, emergency shelter, health care, prescription drugs, gasoline, car repair, clothing, school supplies

Schools

• Adult Basic Education and other related adult programs
• K to 12 Charter school as part of each Ayuda center with emphasis on seniors from Seniors Center assisting as needed

Educational Training Services

• English as a Second Language and total immersion English classes

• Adult Basic Education leading to GED provided from central facility with store fronts in shopping centers and two 18 wheelers equipped as traveling classrooms to provide mobile learning centers directly in neighborhoods alternating among all neighborhoods.

• Citizenship program

• Vocational schools, real estate, mortgage loan officer, insurance

• Understanding the stock market

• Retirement programs

• Internet

• Computers

• Web design studio

• Sales

• School tutoring

• Classes in buying a house, what to look for in a home mortgage, how to understand an insurance policy, how not to be victimized by credit card companies

Free Citizenship and Immigration Services

• Computerized immigration processing of visas

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Computerized identification and criminal background checks

• In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued ID Card

• Classes on understanding rights and responsibilities

• Voter registration

• Citizenship classes

Advocacy

• Each business located within each Ayuda center must agree to honor all contracts, warranties, and provide continuous good service. All purchase contracts will be securitized by Ayuda to ensure Ayuda participants are never victimized. Cars will in all probability be the biggest class of items sold at Ayuda by independent Hispanic small businesses. Car repair will be equally as important as purchases.

Seniors

• Seniors' Center with all activities for seniors living off and on site

• Congregate care center

• Assisted living center

Jobs and Manpower Training Programs

• Day Labor Center

• Job assistance and job development

• National job bank and referral to employers

• Construction training school

• Construction company jobs in building Ayuda Centers

• Furniture and crafts training school

• Community Landscaping

• Artisan furniture and crafts, showcase and marketing

• Computer technology and web design

Child Care Services

• 24/7 services for all Ayuda participants

Entrepreneurship

• "Capitalism, the food that feeds the soul and families" (a video that promotes owning and operating a small business)

• Assistance in identifying business opportunities

• Loan packaging

• Assistance in securing bank, SBA financing, venture capital or financial partners

• Procurement assistance with government funded contracts

• Set Aside assistance from city, county, state governments who receive federal funds

• Incubator program within each Ayuda center giving small businesses assistance with payroll, purchasing, tax preparation, human resources, marketing, advertising, and management

• Business assistance in converting sole proprietorships to S corporations to lessen tax burden

Financial Services

• Income tax preparation assistance

• Assistance to learn to use traditional financial resources such as bank accounts and credit cards

• Credit union

Home Mortgages

• Home preparation courses, credit classes

Rural satellite program

• To be developed

Hispanic Television Studios

• Full service production and broadcast facilities used to broadcast programming to other Ayuda centers.

Religious Services

• A religious center in each facility.
• Zoning

Design

• Design duplicating Mexican Village and mercado as in Cuidad Guadalajara

• Amphitheater for outdoor performances

Facilities

• Bakery

• Restaurants

• Food store

• Movies

• Auditorium

• Recreation, gym

• Exercise

• Farmer's market

• Barbeque area within patio for private picnics

• Organized sports

• Auditorium

• Wedding chapel

• Wedding receptions and wedding parties

• Banquet hall

• Picnic area for individual families and groups

Traditions Culture Morals

• Traditions, Culture, Religion, Family

Volunteers

• This component now being developed

Farmers' Market

• Fresh vegetables and fruit from vegetable and fruit parcels farmed by individuals and the Ayuda Farm which provides plots free to individuals to grow vegetables and produce for sale from Ayuda centers.

Corporate Partnerships and Sponsors

Local

Programs and services available from one Ayuda Center can be provided by one local corporate sponsor such as used car sales.

• Used car sales and repair can sell from a storefront within the Ayuda center.

• Any type service or retail storefront can be provided.

National

Programs and services available from multiple Ayuda Centers can be provided by one corporate sponsor.

• A national bank can provide services from a store front modeled after one in a grocery supermarket with classes offered in how to open a bank account, the importance of good credit, how to evaluate home mortgages, how to improve your credit score, and how to evaluate a car purchase contract.