Already in the early 1980’s Susana got involved in improving the living conditions of the Wixaritari working under harsh conditions in the sugar cane and tobacco harvests in the state of Nayarit. Besides medical attention, she focused on providing healthy food on a daily basis to workers and their families and Huichols passing through on their way to the coast. In the early nineties she moved from Santiago to Huejuquilla el Alto, in the state of Jalisco, convinced that in this vortex of travelling Huichols she’d be able to maximize her work for the people she had come to embrace.
As a consequence, the communal kitchen programme of the Huichol Center also prospered. Nowadays it feeds – without charging anyone – from fifty to a hundred persons twice daily, a number that may even increase on special occasions.
Day-care toddlers, primary and secondary students and their teachers, employees of the Center, visiting Wixaritari, groups of pilgrims and hunters, people needing special diets, sick people in their houses or in the local Huejuquilla hospital, all of them can count on two meals a day. Even the needy Wixaritari hospitalized in neighbouring cities such as Cototlan, Fresnillo, Zacatecas and Guadalajara are paid for their meals during their recuperation with funds from the Huichol Center.