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ALIANZA PARA LA INTEGRACION COMUNITARIA (APIC) UTOPIA A.C. | nezahualcoyotl, Mexico state

“ALIANZA PARA LA INTEGRACIÓN COMUNITARIA UTOPÍA A.C.”

Apic Utopia (Alliance for the community integration) is a Mexican Civil Association, we have as main activity the attention to Girls, Boys and Adolescents in conditions of vulnerability, we work through three main pillars; community, education (mathematical and writing and reading skills), and sport for development and psychosocial skills.

Utopia works closely with national and international organizations this fact allows in a systematic way, addressed the specific problems of each of the users.

OUR MISION

Promote community integration; reduce the levels of poverty and violence of our beneficiaries through educational and sports interventions, promoting their full development and society inclusion.

OUR VISIÓN

By the year 2020, ensure decent living conditions for our beneficiaries, through actions that promote harmonious development and social inclusion, as well as positioning ourselves at a national and international level, as a professional association with a high level of impact

RFC: AIC130724PP5 •CLUNI: AIC1307240901M Mail• [email protected] Web:• www.apicutopia.org Facebook:• www.facebook.com/apic.utopia.9Phone:•(01 55) •76778683Cellphone: • (044) • 55180173203


Working Context

In the last report carried out by CONEVAL and UNICEF (2014), it reports that one out of every two children and adolescents in Mexico is poor.

We serve children and young people who work and live in the municipal garbage dump of Chimalhuacán. This population doesn´t have access to basic services such as:

Thenationalhealthsystem Drinkingwater Sewerage Electric power Recreation places

They live in a violence environment, drug addiction and have contact with some gangs and organized crime, also they are exposed to diseases of all kinds: they eat among from and waste



About the Mexico State, about of 59.0% of the population from 0 to 17 years are in poverty situation; namely, 3.1 million girls, boys and adolescents, lack the minimum conditions to guarantee the exercise of one or more of their social rights.

Article 36 of the General Law of Social Development (LGDS, for its acronym in Spanish) states that poverty must be measured using eight dimensions (not only income)

1. Educationallag,

2. Healtaccess3. Social security Access4. Housingquality and spaces5. Access to basic services in housing

6. Foodaccsess7. Social cohesion8. Income

MUNICIPALITIES WITH A HIGHER POVERTY INDEX



I. Ecatepec de Morelos, 723,559 people (40.8%)II. Nezahualcóyotl, 462,405 people (38.8%)III. Toluca, 407,691 people (41.8%)IV. Naucalpan de Juárez, 264,041 people (32.0%)V. Chimalhuacán, 261,496 people, (62.7%)

Extreme povertyI. Ecatepec de Morelos, 107,023 people(6.0%)

II. Toluca, 66,938 people (6.9%)III. Chimalhuacán, 57,149 people (13.7%)IV. Nezahualcóyotl, 56,653 people (4.7%)V. San Felipe del Progreso, 43,958 people (43.4%)

The Mexico State is one of the most violent in the country and with more crimes against women, according to the report of the investigation group and the Attorney General of the Mexico State (PGJEM)



933 feminicideswerecommitted 4,281 reports of disappearance of women were presented 26,079 complaintsforviolation

Chimalhuacán is among the 50 most violent in Mexico, and was declared (along with 10 other municipalities) in 2015 by the Ministry of the Interior through the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women as Alert Area of gender violence.

TARGET POPULATION

This project focuses on the attention of children and adolescents with an age range of 5 and 17 years, from the Escalerillas neighborhood of the municipality of Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico, in extreme poverty

Organization’s Pillars

Pillar one: Community education


"The educational act does not consist of a transmission of knowledge, it is the enjoyment of the construction of a common world"

-Paulo Freire


Values:

1. Mathematics are used, both in everyday life and in the learning of other disciplines.

2. Literacy requires always attention, concentration, commitment and reflection that allows the subject to know other realities and be placed in them.3. Education is hollistic

Pillar two: Sport for development (Lima-Lama) (ODS 3)


“The best motivation always comes from the inside”

-Michael Johnson


Values

They are a dynamic tool for the transformation of people and their environment They are the mean not the end Champions in tatami, champions in the life The sport is holistic

PILLAR Three: Psychosocial Skills (ODS 10)

Values


“The ability of a person to successfully take on

the demands and challenges of daily life"


Each Girl, Boy and Adolescent is the protagonist of her own history and the creator of her own life goals.

Comprehensive education leads to the full development of life skills

Reflection, participation, freedom of expression, creativity and autonomy are fundamental for the development of the subjects.

We work closely with the three pillars

Networks &Alliance

National Netwoks

- RED POR LOS DERECHOS DE LA INFANCIA EN MÉXICO (REDIM) (NETWORK FOR THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN IN MEXICO);



- It is a coalition of 73 Mexican civil society organizations that develop programs in favor of Mexican children and adolescents in vulnerability situations and who operate in fifteen states of the Mexican Republic. ALIANZA POR EL DEPORTE PARA EL DESARROLLO Y LA PAZ

(ALLIANCE FOR SPORTS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE)

It is a network conformed of 6 Mexican civil society organizations who assume the sport like a way for the peace. Every organization implements a specific sport in favor of Mexican children and adolescents in vulnerability situation.

Alliances



Funding partnerships


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