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Days for Girls Distribution Center & Education Program

2/15/2016

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CEDEJO is proud to announce their recent collaboration with Days for Girls International as a distribution partner for their menstrual kits & an ambassador for women's health training!

Program Goal:
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We seek to break the cycle of poverty and violence against women by promoting access to basic menstrual health supplies (like beautiful, cloth pads and silicone menstrual cups), in conjunction with educating women & girls about their strength, importance, health, puberty, reproductive anatomy & their cycle, hygiene, self-defense, and how to care for and use their menstrual kits.
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Partially sponsored by Days for Girls Chapter in Lethbridge Alberta Canada, which provide washable menstrual kits to CEDEJO. Additional financial support provided by "Darlene Macleod & friends".

​Interested in contributing to this program? ​Please Contact Us!

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2014 Summary & CEDEJO's 2015 Campaign

1/31/2015

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A review of what CEDEJO has been doing behind the scenes in 2014 to try to secure long-term funding, how we have expanded our outreach and programs (all realized through volunteers) and how the community can continue to support our work and ensure that the clinic remains open through 2015.
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CELEBRATING 2014 SUCCESSES

Besides completing a successful 2014 fundraising campaign (thank you donors!), CEDEJO also realized a new website, a new informational pamphlet, a FLICKR account to showcase current photos of their work, a Facebook page, a Twitter account and some press coverage that helped spread the word about our work.

In addition to operating the clinic in Ajijic and providing the free clinic in Tepehua twice a week, CEDEJO also successfully completed an all-volunteer-run (by Mexicana women) pilot project aptly named ‘Mujeres, Poder y Vida’ (‘Women, Power and Life’), which provided over 60 sessions of comprehensive women’s empowerment workshops to the Tepehua community. CEDEJO would like to, eventually, secure funding to continue to offer the empowerment workshops and to expand them to include several other communities around Lakeside.

Another success was the realization of CEDEJO Director's long-time dream of outfitting a mobile health unit in order to be able to visit & provide services to the most vulnerable communities around Lake Chapala. Generous anonymous donors have provided a van for CEDEJO to use twice a week for this purpose.  Director Sylvia Flores will begin this program in January 2015. ​

MAKING NEW CONNECTIONS 

As a result of CEDEJO's outreach efforts last year, new connections were made that will likely benefit CEDEJO in the future. For example, CEDEJO’s Director and volunteers met with UK representatives of the CRED Foundation while they were visiting Mexico in 2014. These productive meetings led to a partnership with the CRED Foundation which is slated to begin in late 2015. This partnership will potentially facilitate CEDEJO’s fundraising efforts in 2016 and beyond.

CEDEJO also met with visiting representatives from Horizons, a Canadian based non-profit organization committed to promoting social justice and people-centered development in Central America and Mexico. Horizons and CEDEJO are currently in the preliminary stages of exploring possible partnership opportunities.

Lastly, CEDEJO spent many hours in 2014 meeting with numerous officials in Guadalajara and applying for a variety of Mexican government grant programs. CEDEJO hopes these meetings and their efforts will result in some fruitful outcomes.

​OUR 2015 CAMPAIGN

Although CEDEJO has been working hard to secure long-term funding opportunities, our efforts have not yet produced the funds needed to cover expenses for 2015. Unfortunately, we are in the same precarious position we've been in for the last seventeen months -- operating from month-to-month on whatever individual donations we receive. It is only through the generosity of individual donors, like you, that CEDEJO remains open and is able to provide services to the women & girls of Lakeside.

To help CEDEJO through the next year and until we can realize some funding through other avenues, please consider donating to our 2015 fundraising campaign.
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We thank you in advance for whatever form of support you can offer. Every peso helps.
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Reserve su asiento :: Sesión Informativa Gratuita Sobre la Salud de la Mujer.  Preguntas y Respuestas con Sylvia Flores.

9/25/2014

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CEDEJO presente Sesión Informativa Gratuita Sobre la Salud de la Mujer.  Presentado por Sylvia Flores.  Conozca más acerca de los obstáculos a la buena salud que enfrentan las mujeres y adolescentes y aprenda diversas soluciones para ayudar superarlos.  Reserve su asiento rellenando el siguiente formulario. Patrocinado por Lake Chapala UU Fellowship.

Miércoles 15 de Octubre a las 4 de la tarde
Rio Bravo #10A, Ajijic, casi esquina con Zaragoza


CEDEJO presents a Free Informative Presentation About Women's Health.  Sylvia Flores will review health concerns that local women and girls might face and will offer various solutions to help overcome obstacles to good health. A question and answer period will follow.  Please help spread the word about this presentation.  Sponsored by Lake Chapala UU Fellowship.

October 15, 2014 at 4 p.m.
Plaza de la Ribera, Rio Bravo #10A, in West Ajijic 

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Mujeres, Poder y Vida :: Women, Power & Life

4/17/2014

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A Project by CEDEJO.  Community Circles and Sustainable Cooperatives of women united in a network of support and collaboration.
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WOMEN, POWER AND LIFE involves a series of workshops in four marginal communities of the Rivera of Chapala: Tepehua, Ajijic, San Juan Cosalá, San Cristóbal.

These workshops have a systemic vision that seeks to develop the different areas of empowerment of women, from self-esteem and inner development to training for the progress of their creative potential, boosting their economic independence and improving their quality of life.

There are 4 areas that the project WOMEN, POWER AND LIFE seek to offer to women:
  • Empowerment and Self-Esteem: Theoric and practical workshops on how to increase the love, respect and self-care of women by promoting wellness, balance and overall empowerment.
  • Productive Projects: Methodologies to create cooperatives in order for women to generate their own economic activities for strengthen their economy and boosting their human development. Training will be taught on productive projects as: Production of medicinal extracts, preparation of soaps, gels and ointments, horticulture and medicinal garden home.
  • Domestic violence: Mechanisms to prevent and eradicate violence against women, ensuring their access to a life free of violence that fosters their development and wellbeing according to the principles of equality and non-discrimination.
  • Women's Health: Theory and exercises on the topics of sexuality, our cultural heritage of the female body

Want to know more about this project?  Interested in helping to fund this exciting collaboration?  Contact us.
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