Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 10:05:03 GMT 1
After being nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, Yalitza Aparicio is standing out in different media due to what she has done in recent days.
For example, recently the France Mobile Number List organization Fondo Semillas launched a campaign called CambiaLaHistoria, through which they hope to raise 250 thousand pesos that will directly help the Network of Women Employees of the Home of Guerrero. This network receives, helps and trains domestic workers on their labor rights.
What does Yalitza have to do with CambiaLaHistoria?
The protagonist of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, Yalitza Aparicio, together with the footballer Javier "el Chicharito" Hernández, will auction four West Ham United shirts, signed by the footballer and the protagonist, there will also be voluntary donations open to the general public.
According to an interview by Animal Político with the executive director of Fondo Semillas, Laura García, it was decided to support the Network of Women Employees of the Guerrero Home, which is located in Chilpancingo, because it is an organization that has been working for several years of this labor sector, with very few resources and media projection.
“We have been collaborating with them for several years, as well as with other organizations in Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, but there is very little visibility on the issue, and much more for the activists and organizations that promote it from places that are not the capital of the country, (for this reason) we have to promote state organizations, which rarely have the opportunity to receive support and appear in the media so that people know them.”
It should be noted that this Network of Women Household Employees of Guerrero has a Solidarity House with which it helps women who come from the mountains and different municipalities in search of a job as domestic employees.
Here approximately more than 650 workers are served, who are offered shelter and food for several days until they find a job with decent conditions.
This initiative prevents women from accepting low salaries or working without financial remuneration in exchange for food and a bed to sleep in.
Data from INEGI say that in our country there are 2.4 million people who are dedicated to paid household work, 91% are women, of which 87.7% do not have any type of benefit – bonus, paid vacations or health insurance.
While 62.8% received salaries so low that they were not able to acquire the goods and services necessary to satisfy their basic needs.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), Mexico is the country in Latin America with the worst rate of labor formalization of paid domestic workers.
It is for this reason that Fondo Semillas assumes the role of financier for organizations dedicated to helping domestic workers through financial aid of between 200 to 350 thousand pesos, which is distributed over a period of 18 months.
With these resources, organizations can make strategies for the beneficiaries.
For example, recently the France Mobile Number List organization Fondo Semillas launched a campaign called CambiaLaHistoria, through which they hope to raise 250 thousand pesos that will directly help the Network of Women Employees of the Home of Guerrero. This network receives, helps and trains domestic workers on their labor rights.
What does Yalitza have to do with CambiaLaHistoria?
The protagonist of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, Yalitza Aparicio, together with the footballer Javier "el Chicharito" Hernández, will auction four West Ham United shirts, signed by the footballer and the protagonist, there will also be voluntary donations open to the general public.
According to an interview by Animal Político with the executive director of Fondo Semillas, Laura García, it was decided to support the Network of Women Employees of the Guerrero Home, which is located in Chilpancingo, because it is an organization that has been working for several years of this labor sector, with very few resources and media projection.
“We have been collaborating with them for several years, as well as with other organizations in Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, but there is very little visibility on the issue, and much more for the activists and organizations that promote it from places that are not the capital of the country, (for this reason) we have to promote state organizations, which rarely have the opportunity to receive support and appear in the media so that people know them.”
It should be noted that this Network of Women Household Employees of Guerrero has a Solidarity House with which it helps women who come from the mountains and different municipalities in search of a job as domestic employees.
Here approximately more than 650 workers are served, who are offered shelter and food for several days until they find a job with decent conditions.
This initiative prevents women from accepting low salaries or working without financial remuneration in exchange for food and a bed to sleep in.
Data from INEGI say that in our country there are 2.4 million people who are dedicated to paid household work, 91% are women, of which 87.7% do not have any type of benefit – bonus, paid vacations or health insurance.
While 62.8% received salaries so low that they were not able to acquire the goods and services necessary to satisfy their basic needs.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), Mexico is the country in Latin America with the worst rate of labor formalization of paid domestic workers.
It is for this reason that Fondo Semillas assumes the role of financier for organizations dedicated to helping domestic workers through financial aid of between 200 to 350 thousand pesos, which is distributed over a period of 18 months.
With these resources, organizations can make strategies for the beneficiaries.