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If you are interested in more information on how to help or want to volunteer please contact iwccdmxcharities@gmail.com.
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🏡 Foundation Casa Hogar Las Nieves operates an after-school program for 30 girls and boys, ages 6–12. The children arrive at Las Nieves around 1:00 p.m. each day and stay until approximately 6:00 p.m., after their parents finish work. 🕐 📍Las Nieves is located in the alcaldía of Tlalpan, just south of Coyoacán. 🎂 Volunteers from the International Women's Club of Mexico City host monthly birthday parties for the children, as well as Christmas 🎄 and Children's Day 🎈 celebrations. 🎉 We would also love to organize additional celebrations throughout the year, such as Halloween 🎃 and Cinco de Mayo, because who doesn't love a party? 🎁 Volunteers at Las Nieves donate birthday and holiday gifts, organize fun activities for the children (games, arts and crafts, and much more), provide delicious food 🍕, drinks and treats, and make the trip to Las Nieves one afternoon each month. 🚗 IWC organizes carpools and Uber rides to make participation easier, and you are more than welcome to bring your own children along. 👨👩👧👦 📲 If you would like more information about this volunteer opportunity, please send a WhatsApp message to the Las Nieves liaison, Karen Petersen Portugal, at +1 503 267 7517. 💜 Thank you! 👇🏼Follow them 👇🏼 |
🎨 Inspired by real photographs, transformed with a little pixie dust. To protect the privacy of our wonderful children, we have given these photos a little Disney-style magic. 🏰💫
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fundación oraOnce a month, IWC volunteers gather to prepare a meal for about 80 senior citizens in a nearby community of Mexico City. Depending on the need, volunteers can help prepare, cook, package, and serve the meals. Some months, bags of pantry items ("despensas") will also be prepared to hand out with the meals. The food preparation happens in Ora's kitchen, and Mother Teresa's Hogar Paz y Alegría welcomes Ora and her volunteers to come and feed its residents and celebrate their birthdays. Furthermore, we invite any volunteers celebrating their birthdays in the given month, to gift yourself this beautiful experience of servicing others in need. If you would like to contribute to the cost of the meal as a birthday present to yourself Ora accepts monetary donations to help cover the costs of the food she cooks. You don't need to know how to cook to help. 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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