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.
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.
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.
We are one week away from the end of ¡Vaya vaya Tacubaya! a collective exposition. Representing a piece of the photographic perspective of our collaborators and beneficiaries. With its opening on june 15th, this exposition holds two central show-windows from the metro station Tacubaya. The exhibited photographs have the common theme of the city, its […]
The last few weeks the valedores have been getting an objet-art workshop by Francisca Rodillo De Vicente, a chilean artist that seeks to breakthrough paradigms and preconceived ideas related to art, and technique; Francisca doesn´t use materials or formats considered normal for professional artist such as oleos or acrylics, rather she works with construction materials, […]
A few weeks ago we opened the street photographic exposition with the title “Vaya Vaya Tacubaya”, homonym to the station it’s being held at. However, this 30 of june we had the opportunity to present it in form, grabbing the occasion to explain further the social reinsertion project of Mi Valedor, meet with a few […]
Our latest printed edition of the association’s magazine had its presentations at the MAF (from the spanish acronym of Photography archive museum) where we were honored with the presence of Bob Schalkwijk, María Portilla, Cristina Pérez y Daniel H. Vargas to deepen the issues discussed in the volume, specifically in today’s concern with water in […]
On April 22, after months of hard work, Javier’s advocate was able to have his birth certificate issued. The process began in June 2021 and resumed in early 2022. With the help of Mi Valedor, and thanks to the support provided by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Javier can now enjoy and exercise his […]
This Sunday, May 8, World Red Cross Day was commemorated through the delivery of humanitarian aid to street populations. This date has always been remembered through volunteer activity and support to vulnerable people. Some thirty volunteers from both the Red Cross and other civil society organizations went to the “Plaza de la Concepción” last week […]
