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femLENS' mission is to visually educate and make technologically aware the most vulnerable and resourceless women of our society through documentary photography made accessible by mobile phone cameras and cheaper point and shoot cameras.
Our mission is to reduce the 10 years forseen to rebuild Ixtaltepec and help reactivate a strong economy through the teaching of local and traditional crafts while creating social bond in the community.
Our mission is to ensure that all San Miguel de Allende children who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired become literate, independent, and productive citizens who set and achieve life goals.
To be a model for extra-curricular education to indigenous communities in Mexico for children of all ages, using art, music and literacy in a space for learning that inspires creativity and develops critical thinking skills and self-confidence. Enabling children and their families to expand these activities into cooperative businesses for sustainability. Encouraging them to have the vision to create projects that will offer solutions to environmental, health and social justice issues in their own communities. Ojala provides a safe haven where children can gather and be guided without judgment; where their curiosity and creativity can have no limits. This kind of environment stimulates thought, imagination and the potential to find liberation from poverty, ignorance and oppression, which leads to personal pride, strength of character and the desire to build a cooperative community.
Mission: Develop, implement and disseminate a holistic, contextualized and individualized education capable of fully developing each child's capacities.
Establish centers to educate children and youth who are exposed on street risks, which function as spaces for developing positive and constructive ways coexistence and social interaction through human development programs and comprehensive prevention.
To produce a high-quality cultural magazine that can provide a source of legitimate income to those who need it. To reinsert socially and economically excluded sectors of the Mexico City population into society. We focus on particularly vulnerable sectors, such as: homeless, transgender, pensioners and refugees, since it's extremely difficult for them to acquire formal income opportunities. We place great emphasis on personal confidence and the development of social skills that are essential to the work place, through creative workshops.
To foster the local development -of the village Don Diego- with the involvement of the people,linking various sectors of society and other non governmental organizations in order to attract resources to raise the community standards of living
Clown Me In, known as Awrad Association, was created for the purpose of spreading laughter, providing relief to disadvantaged communities, addressing trauma, discrimination and environmental problems and abuses through clowning, laughter and social therapy workshops. We also aim to take the arts outside of the capital, giving disadvantaged and/or rural communities access to arts and culture. Clown Me In has worked around the world, in Mexican, Lebanese, Palestinian, Indian, Brazilian, Moroccan, Jordanian, Syrian, Greek and British communities.
We are a Network of Mexican Women's organizations from Mexico and United States, united by the recognition of a shared indigenous heritage, searching to re-value and preserve our cultures through the construction of a system of fair commercial exchange.
We offer alternative education to the indigenous youth in the northern highlands of Puebla, so that they are able to build life projects worthy of their talents, interests , roots and knowledge
To support grassroots initiatives which promote the sustainability and Independence of communities in Oaxaca. Our vision is to generate social-environmental consciousness and sustainable production in the Oaxacan countryside. Our major goals include: Securing the sustainability of natural resources in the communities here we work. Reducing the health risks associated with rural life in Oaxaca. Supporting resistance to consumerism and Independence from corporations and governments. Increasing community member's level of self-esteem, wellbeing and happiness. Increasing the level of people's satisfaction with community life. Objectives / Activities 1) Develop a working model sustainable homestead based on village life in Oaxaca. 2) Foster self-sustaining businesses that support women, families and local economies. 3) Preserve and promote biological diversity. 4) Protect cultural heritage and traditions. 5) Promote and support community-wide projects that foster social-environmental sustainability 6) Promote and support projects that improve domestic health 7) Augment household food self-sufficiency and community food sovereignty. 8) Engage local people and returning migrants in sustainable community development. 9) Support education and training for sustainable management of local initiatives, organizations and businesses. 10) Support and promote fair trade initiatives and collective marketing of village-made products. 11) Establish access to information on alternatives in health, economy, agriculture, society, etc.