Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: Community Center for Sex Workers
|
|
|
|
Elderly sex workers live in appalling conditions on the streets of Mexico City. Independent sex workers have the need to come together to hold seminars, organize reflection groups, and take primary- to high school-classes. Casa Xochiquetzal, a community center in one of the poorest and most marginalized neighborhoods in Mexico City, will give older and independent sex workers the space and opportunity to gain dignity and learn about their human rights.
|
|
|
|
Casa Xochiquetzal will offer housing for 63 elderly sex workers and develop income-generating projects, such as handicrafts and cooking. It will offer workshops and classes for sex workers. |
|
|
|
Casa Xochiquetzal gives sex workers a place to empower themselves through alternate forms of income-generating activities and education. |
|
|
We, sex workers, want a room of our own. A space that allows us to meet, to find each other and to find ourselves, to learn about our human rights.
- Leader, “Trabajadoras Independientes Emma Goldman” group
|
Paula Sanchez Mejorada,
Resource Development Program Assistant
Tamaulipas 66, Planta Alta, Colonia Condesa
Colonia Condesa
Mexico City,
Mexico
52-55-5553-2900
|
|
|
|
|
