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Inspiring and enabling at-risk youth in Mexico to realize their full potential and become productive and responsible members of society.

Graduate Women International (GWI), founded in 1919 as the International Federation of University (IFUW), is a worldwide, non-governmental organisation of women graduates. GWI advocates for women's rights, equality and empowerment through access to quality secondary and tertiary education and training up to the highest levels. GWI's mission is to: Promote lifelong education for women and girls; Promote international cooperation, friendship, peace and respect for human rights for all, irrespective of their age, race, nationality, religion, political opinion, gender and sexual orientation or other status; Advocate for the advancement of the status of women and girls; and Encourage and enable women and girls to apply their knowledge and skills in leadership and decision-making in all forms of public and private life.

Somos una iniciativa social dedicada a impulsar el desarrollo cultural, educativo y ocupacional de ninos y jovenes que viven en situacion de vulnerabilidad en areas marginadas del estado de San Luis Potosi, promoviendo asi una transformacion social, mediante el aprendizaje y aplicacion colectiva de la musica sinfonica y coral.

Mission Brake the violence chain generating life opportunities. Vision Replicate the model family project throughout Mexico to meet the high demand OBJECTIVES Puerta Abierta knows that the most important legacy that these children can receive is love from the carers of the institution within this new family and the opportunity for a quality education. This project will allow them to build a world full of opportunities and achievements. Love -Form a loving family so they can build the bonds that will protect and accompany their lives. -Give them the protection and security they require for their healthy development through respect and affection. -To provide moral and spiritual guidance that enables them to grow in love and respect themselves and those around them. -Teaching is always by example it is never allowed aggressions that will hurt again. 2.-Quality Education - Due to their primary upbringing all girls have academic performance lags, this is the reason to support them in schools where these problems are addressed individually and with better resources. -Offer the academic opportunity that any child deserves, as this will give them the tools to become self-sufficient and independent so they wont allow aggressions anymore. -Develop their skills and strengths by providing the tools they require to achieve it. -Academic tuition and support with learning disabilities when needed. -Support to learn English and computers as they are key tools for vocational training to achieve their dreams. -Enrollment in extracurricular activities to give them tools that are useful to face the world as adults. Life Project The girls and young women, will remain at home until they decide to form their own family or choose to start their independent life, this is called a life project where there is no release date. He will support the individual decision of each girl to choose their career or profession, with commitment and effort in achieving their goal.

The Mexican Association of Aid to Children with Cancer of San Luis Potosi, A.C. (AMANC SLP) was founded on January 17, 2005, by a group of potosinas families, aware of the need to help children with cancer, of limited resources and without social security who do not have the opportunity to receive a treatment that helps them In their daily struggle to conquer this disease. We belong to the AMANC system, which has its headquarters in Mexico City and is present in 24 states of the country, however, each AMANC Center is independent and organized according to its economic possibilities (donors in cash and / or in kind). Our mission is that all children and adolescents in our state diagnosed with cancer, with limited economic resources and without social security, have the best supports and resources for their treatment. Currently we have a register of 460 children and adolescents, we give them lodging, food and we pay them all the medicines - both oncological and collateral to cancer - that they need. In addition, we provide official education since we have a school classroom, we provide support, emotional support and spiritual support. We also paid for funeral and ambulance services. We offer an average of 1500 meals and lodging to 450 people per month. Our vision: that, in the medium term, all children and adolescents in our state diagnosed with cancer receive optimal integral care. To achieve this, we have the following objectives: Eliminate defections in children with cancer. Provide our beneficiaries with all the medicines they require for their treatment. Provide the patient and his family with all the psychosocial and spiritual support they require.

Melel Xojobal is a children's rights organization based in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Our mission is to promote and defend the rights of indigenous children and young people through participatory educational programs that improve their quality of life. At Melel Xojobal we work in a participatory manner to promote the strengthening of indigenous cultural identity, to defend human rights, to strengthen personal and cultural dignity, to ensure that justice and liberty are respected, and that the participation of all is ensured regardless of race, gender, creed, religious affiliation or ideology. We believe that education is a fundamental means by which people exercise self-determination and become the authors of their own history. Melel Xojobal's specific objectives are: 1. To implement participatory educational programmes with indigenous girls, boys, and young people to promote and defend their rights to health, education, protection from mistreatment, to regulated conditions of work, association and expression. 2. To generate through ongoing research a better understanding of child welfare, human rights and education in an urban context. 3. To inform and educate the Mexican public about the human rights of indigenous girls, boys, and young people of Chiapas. 4. To exchange and share ideas and experiences from a human rights perspective which relate to indigenous infant, childhood, and adolescent education among organizations on a national and international level. All of our work is guided by the aim of protecting and promoting five human rights established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Rights to health, to education, to protection against all forms of mistreatment, to work, and to freedom of expression and association). Our work responds to the situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico, who account for around 10% of the population, and continue to live in conditions that marginalise them socially, economically and politically and which push them to the edge of society. To provide an indication of the need for our work: according to government statistices, in the city we work in, in 2010 61% of the population had no formal right to medical services; 24% of the population aged 3-18 did not attend school. In 2010 we formally counted 2,481 child workers in the city. In 2005 in Chiapas as a whole, 71% of the population under 14 lived in municipalities classified as being at high or extreme risk of malnutrition; in some municipalities infant mortality rates 75 in a 1000, on a par with several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Our purpose is to create the worlds leading network of affiliated coding clubs for young people. Our goals are to support, develop and scale CoderDojo to inspire young coders around the world.

To be a model for extra-curricular education to indigenous communities in Mexico for children of all ages, using art, music and literacy in a space for learning that inspires creativity and develops critical thinking skills and self-confidence. Enabling children and their families to expand these activities into cooperative businesses for sustainability. Encouraging them to have the vision to create projects that will offer solutions to environmental, health and social justice issues in their own communities. Ojala provides a safe haven where children can gather and be guided without judgment; where their curiosity and creativity can have no limits. This kind of environment stimulates thought, imagination and the potential to find liberation from poverty, ignorance and oppression, which leads to personal pride, strength of character and the desire to build a cooperative community.

We are a feminist fund that mobilizes resources and accompanies women's organizations and groups to achieve gender equality in Mexico.

Encourage sustainable development for Santa Rosalia through the promotion and support of productive options that represent a benefit for the community in order to create new sources of employment, as well as the development of community projects.

Centro Infantil de los Angeles provides free, quality daycare and preschool education to children with the greatest need in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Our mission is to foster the growth of women as leaders with strong sense of self and a will to serve others, whose presence in the community will be an example of virtue, values, ethics and spirituality. Our founding principles are based on the belief that communities need all citizens to be active and have a voice. Equality and equity across gender is important and lacking in many communities across Mexico, especially in rural areas. Leaders in communities need to have service to that community as a priority. We believe that everyone should have access to higher levels education despite barriers of poverty and location. We believe that a nurturing, protective and faith-filled environment helps people grow and we encourage women to participate in the faith organization of their choice finding common ground between faith groups. Our goal is to have more women to take on leadership roles in their communities and support them in fostering personal and economic development in their communities. There are many government programs for marginalized communities here in Mexico, but the communities are not well enough organized to take advantage of these opportunities and community leaders more often than not use these opportunities to their own advantage either to political or personal. If communities are better organized they can make better decisions for themselves. The base of this organization is personal development for the community members. Meeting the basic needs of community members is also vital to community growth, it is difficult to grow when all energy is focused on meeting basic needs of families.