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Work with Battered Immigrant women
For more than 10 years, Poder de La Mujer was an organizaiton of power in El Paso. These women who were survivors of domestic violence were communty health promoters, or promotoras, and they gave presentation in the communtiy on HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, and the Violence Against Women Act.
Our most recent project is Project BELLA.
Last year we reached 16,200 people as part of our
efforts to provide education on HIV/AIDS. We currently have 30 members
who are receiving legal services from Las Americas, our partner organization.
Most of these are being processed under VAWA but 15 are awaiting determinations
of U-Visas. Our outreach last year was conducted in the local schools,
for parent’s groups in the schools, in the agricultural fields,
at meetings in our colonias, at local grocery stores, at labor pick-up
and drop sites, in public health offices, in neighbor’s homes
and at local events and fairs. We distributed 10,000 brochures on domestic
violence at one event alone.
The HIV/AIDS prevention work that we do
brings us into the clubs, adult entertainment centers and bars of the
area. In addition, we sometimes join in the harvesting of crops so that
we can speak with migrant farm workers about prevention of AIDS while
they are working.
The population we reach is almost entirely monolingual
Spanish speaking. This population has difficulty with accessing and
interpreting U.S. laws and policies. We serve as cultural interpreters
for this population.
Many of our contacts are without documentation,
but many have U.S. citizen children. All of us live and work in our
own communities. We are also Spanish speaking and many of us are immigrants.
For more info, call (915) 544-5126, Ext. 21
HELP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!
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