We help Mexican vulnerable people re-integrate into the workforce and society
Mi Valedor (“My Mate”) is a social project that, through a bi-monthly magazine, workshops, and healthcare networks, offers vulnerable groups (homeless people, migrants, older people and disabled people) an opportunity to get back into the workplace and society. These people are the Mates.
We aim to create an equal environment benefitting vulnerable groups of people who join the project as Mates: as vendors of the print magazine and creators of its content.
Our magazine is a not-for-profit publication dedicated to documenting the unexpected in this beautiful, vibrant city that’s full of contradictions: Mexico City. We are part of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP).
Thanks to the work of voluntary workshop leaders and the social and editorial team at the magazine, the Mates receive training and gain useful skills which help them to achieve a better quality of life.
It has been a hot sellout day for the Valedores and we couldn’t be happier for them! We are part of the most recent edition of the FIL Zócalo, which is the first in person format after the pandemic. The valedores have sold magazines and talked with many people who come to stand 66 to […]
This October 5th, Beatriz Ramírez, Iztapalapa chronicler and coordinator of the Historic Archive of the Mayor’s Office, gave us a guided tour of Line 2 of the Cablebús to tell us the history of the territory that includes the Iztapalapa Mayor’s Office, its neighborhoods and hills. We were able to appreciate and talk together about […]
As part of the activities and cultural tours that we organize with the valedores, this month we took a tour of the National Museum of San Carlos to visit the exhibition The history that unites us. Pets in art, with which the venue restarts face-to-face activities after being suspended due to the pandemic. For the […]
During the month of September, the valedrores took a workshop in three sessions under the name Training leaders to train leaders that seek to train responsible integral people, through education in ethical values and sports, capable of making their own decisions, collaborating with others in the search for the common good. In summary, the objective […]
One of our most unexpected and magical workshops in September was called Mushroom Growing in Urban Areas and it revolved around the theme of food sovereignty. In this single session, Carlos Briones Pérez, an ethnomycologist dedicated to the cultivation of culturally important mushrooms, began with a brief talk on the history of mushrooms in pre-Hispanic […]
On Thursday, September 9, we took a photographic tour with some of the valedores in the streets of the Doctores neighborhood. With the intention of continuing to feed the community archive of images, the valedores recorded what caught their attention on the streets of a neighborhood full of life and commercial activities. To end the […]
At NGO Mi Valedor, we try to create an equal environment that benefits vulnerable populations, who join the project as Mates: as vendors of the print magazine and creators of its content (providing photographs and text). Their participation helps them regain skills and the sale of the magazine is a legitimate and reliable source of income for them.
