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If you are interested in more information on how to help or want to volunteer please contact iwccdmxcharities@gmail.com.
Hogar Las Nieves is a children’s home for girls from dysfunctional families who live with the risk of being homeless. These girls have experienced abuse in their lives. Run by nuns, the home is also a school and has space for about forty girls, aged 5 to 12. The girls reside at the home from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon. Hogar Las Nieves accepts the following donations:
Hogar Las Nieves accepts new and used items. Donated new items are given to the girls. Donated used items are sold by the nuns.
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Albergue Inés María accepts the following donations:
Albergue Inés María accepts new and used items. Donated new items are given to the girls. Donated used items are sold by the nuns.
| Albergue Inés María is a children’s shelter for girls from single-parent families with few economic resources. These girls face abandonment and loneliness. Run by nuns, the shelter strives to create a family life for the girls. The girls (aged 4 to 18) reside at the home from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon. The shelter provides counseling for the girls and their families to promote healing. The IWC supports Albergue Inés María by holding birthday and holiday celebrations, offering tutoring services, paying utility bills, and delivering food and essential supplies. Some IWC members personally sponsor individual girls through monthly payments.
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fundación oraTwice a month, IWC volunteers gather to prepare a meal for about 80 senior citizens in a nearby community of Mexico City. Volunteers can help prepare, cook, package, and serve the meals. Some weeks, bags of pantry items ("despensas") will also be prepared to hand out with the meals. The food preparation happens in Ora's kitchen, and a Catholic church allows us to use their chapel to serve the seniors the meal in a safe, clean space. You don't need to know how to cook to help. Volunteering can fit around your schedule: you can volunteer for the full five hours or just come for part of the time. We’re grateful for your help! Fundación Ora gratefully accepts the following donations:
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| IWC members meet monthly to make baby blankets for mothers with few economic resources. No sewing skills are required to participate. The material is provided, and you just need to be able to measure and cut. Our blankets are donated through the Mexican volunteer group Darce. We also support them through donations of new and used items they gift to mothers and also sell at their monthly bazaar (the funds of which are also used to assist the mothers). In the past, IWC members have fundraised to assist the hospital in building a waiting room for fathers and in outfitting a waiting room for siblings. We always accept the following donations:
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EL POZO DE VIDA El Pozo de Vida is a NGO that fights human trafficking in Mexico and Latin America with 9extensive projects working in the areas of prevention, intervention and restoration. Prevention 1. w/ students: our team gives workshops at schools (along w/ parents and vulnerable communities) from elementary to high school in the area of online safety and digital violence 2. w/ migrants: providing prevention materials, education, and art therapy to migrants in detention centers, safehouses, and bus terminals 3. w/ men: workshops on toxic masculinity 4. w/ children in situations of forced child begging Intervention 5. Community Center: a safe place for women in current situations of prostitution to build community and learn life skills together 6. Block Party: monthly parties to disrupt the sex commerce and show the women working in situations of prostitution that they are valued and loved Restoration 7. Safehouse: a comprehensive witness protection program for young girls waiting to testify against their perpetrators. We currently have 18 girls from the ages of 1-17 years old 8. Transition House: A two year program for women to receive support as they transition to adulthood from the safehouse providing all their educational and basic needs 9. Nunayu: a social enterprise that serves trafficking survivors and provides them a creative outlet along with business skills | In the past members of the IWC board have visited the new community center location in La Merced. Nunayu has been invited to be present and share at the women’s day event. We are also so proud for Nunayu to also be an IWC sponsor and have had 2 beautiful jewelry making classes where the women or Nunayu and the IWC have had powerful experiences together. This event gave the women on Nunayu an opportunity to share part of their story like they’ve never done before and I was so proud of their bravery due to the beautiful and safe space the women of the IWC provided. El Pozo de Vida is in a critical phase in its journey, growing faster than ever before and with over 50 employees and a budget of over 1 million dollars. With each project expanding in all 3 areas of prevention, intervention, and restoration, we are constantly fighting against the exploitation of women and children on a grand scale but also one on one. Visit El Pozo de Vida's Website
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