Health education for rural Oaxacan women
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SummaryCritical health education and organizing strategies will support the efforts of indigenous women in the Sierra Mixteca, whose basic human and reproductive rights are systematically violated.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
One would have to walk six hours from the nearest road to reach a rural Oaxacan community of the Sierra Mixteca. Few outside resources or government health services are available to these isolated communities. Indigenous women have no access to current health resources and have little information on their body's reproductive system or their right to protect it. They are routinely subjected to sterilization without being offered alternative birth control.
Activities
In a year-long program 85 indigenous women will learn about basic health education and human right including: how to exercise their right to protect their bodies and not be violated; general female anatomy; reproductive health; and family planning.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $269
Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $269 as of Jun 9, 2004. The original project funding goal was $18,700.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
As leaders, these women will empower their peers by traveling to remote villages and teaching 1100 women and girls. Training fees, travel expenses, & materials must be funded. Each donation of $200 supports one woman's participation in the program.
Project Message
Imagine you couldn't go to the doctor unchaparoned and sterilization was your only birth control. You wouldn't know you had the right to ask questions, to demand alternatives, to protect your body.
- Beatriz Salinas Aviles, Program Coordinator
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Beatriz Salinas Aviles
Program Coordinator
Garcia Virgil No. 702
C.P. 68000
Oaxaca,
Mexico
011-52-55-55530109
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Semillas
Tamaulipas 66 Col. Condesa
Mexico City,
N/A
6140
Mexico
+52 (55) 55 53 01 09
http://www.semillas.org.mx/
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Mexico
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Mexico, read the Human Development Report on Mexico or the Wikipedia entry for Mexico.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 17, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 22, 2003
