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MEX 08 - ALONGSIDE THE MIGRANT WOMEN OF TAPACHULA

nation
Mexico
duration
12 months
field
Women empowerment
complete
No
budget
4108 € / Missing 4108 €
MEX 08 - ALONGSIDE THE MIGRANT WOMEN OF TAPACHULA

Project Location

The southern border of Mexico is full of dreams, nightmares and realities for many women, men, children, adolescents and young people who cross these places every day. Tapachula, in the Chiapas region, is one of the most important border cities in southern Mexico, a place known to many migrants from Central America, the Caribbean, South America and extra-continental nationalities (Africans, Asians).

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in 2019 Mexico recorded the arrival of over 450,000 people, who crossed the border between that country and Guatemala to seek asylum or continue on their way to the United States; most of them are entire families, young men and women with children fleeing from situations of violence, oppression, poverty and persecution by their governments or organized crime.

In this reality, we Comboni Sisters live as a community by walking with the migrants we meet in the various shelters with which we collaborate, making our time available for personal and group listening, working in particular with women, young women and adolescents.

Project description

The project is developed through personal listening to women so that they feel welcomed and accompanied as they carry out their migratory processes, offering them spaces for information and human and spiritual formation.

  • Specifically, twice a week, the following contents are offered:
  • Group listening workshops, where these women can find a safe and trusting space in which to tell their personal story and what they carry in their hearts: the desires, joys and sufferings of their crossing.
  • Workshops on human formation, personal knowledge and valorization, knowledge of human rights, etc.
  • Spaces of ecumenical and interreligious spirituality of encounter with God.
  • Moments of information on migratory processes and the possible dangers of their journey.
  • Occupational therapy with therapeutic purposes through small manual work workshops.

This integral approach, through welcoming, personal listening, group meetings, training and manual work, is a creative process that helps the women and young people who participate to trust their emotions and feelings, welcoming them in a context of trust and respect for the diversity of expression.

Through this process, it is possible to create a bridge between what they have inside and what makes up the external reality, harmonizing both dimensions to live the waiting time with greater awareness and recognition of themselves, both in relation to the reality that surrounds them and to the people with whom they relate.

Objectives

  • Create awareness in women of their own experiences, welcoming their emotions and feelings.
  • Strengthen the self-esteem and hope of the women involved through occupational therapy with therapeutic purposes

Beneficiaries

Direct: 1,440 migrants, mostly women, divided into weekly groups of 15 people.

Indirect: families and the host community.

 

 

 

 

Referent sister of the project: Sr. Marisela de los Santos López

Project's costs

Stationery material (glue, stickers, scissors, etc.)
€ 716.00
Various prints
€ 130.00
Canvases of various sizes
€ 90.00
Billboards and cards of various colors
€ 128.00
Colored threads and pendants
€ 269.00
Candles and lighters
€ 17.50
Food
€ 725.00
Workshop facilitators compensation
€ 600.00
Transport
€ 112.50
Telephone
€ 120.00
Referent remuneration
€ 1,200.00
Total
€ 4,108.00