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Refuge Ranch is an adoptive home, headed by Victor and Julie Zaragoza, for abandoned children
that's located in central Mexico. Receiving a home school education and helping the family tend to the animals and garden
on the ranch are two of the many ways in which abandoned children find the love, nurture, freedom and structure necessary to become all that God wants them to be.

Scroll down this page to meet the family of Victor and Julie, the staff of Refuge Ranch, and some images of life on the ranch!

The Family of Refuge Ranch

The Zaragoza family currently consists of eighteen children.

Angie and her sister Diana came from living in an abandoned storefront
in Mexico City with their drug-addicted birth mother.

Martha walked alone from her mountain village seeking treatment at an EMMC.
She came home from the mission trip with Victor, leaving behind a life of abuse and malnutrition.

Ana has been part of the family since her birth. While pregnant, Ana’s birth mother, young,
impoverished and struggling to raise five children, asked Victor and Julie to take Ana into their home.

Fidel, like Martha, joined the family after an EMMC, in which Victor discovered Fidel living in a jail cell,
having suffered abandonment by all of his living relatives.

Martita and her sister Lolis survived the death of their birth mother as young girls
and the abusive conditions of their alcoholic father.

As a toddler, Daniel was dropped off with a missionary couple by his birth mother who didn’t want him.
The couple contacted Victor and Julie who took him into their family.

Jocelin joined the family upon the death of her single mother, Victor’s sister.

Josiah, Caleb and Ruth, Victor and Julie’s biological children

Fatima, Leonardo, Miguel, Caroline, and David, siblings, joined the family in February, 2011.

Alejandro became part of the family in November, 2011 after being rejected by his family.

The Staff of Refuge Ranch

Cirino Cruz is a mason by trade and heads all of the building projects at the ranch.
He also takes care of the livestock and does general handyman work.
He and his wife Nancy have two children, Berenice & Bernabe.