Asociación para el Desarrollo y Autodeterminación de Mujeres Salvadoreñas (AMS), San Salvador, El Salvador
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| Asociación para el Desarrollo y Autodeterminación de Mujeres Salvadoreñas (AMS), San Salvador, El Salvador | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | Cologne FLOWERS, DAISIES PASSAGE,
House No. 12 San Salvador |
| City: | San Salvador |
| Country: | El Salvador |
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| Location coordinates: | 13° 41' 24" N, 89° 11' 24" WLatitude: 13.69 Longitude: -89.19 |
| Contact number: | 274-5007 |
| Contact email: | ams@saltel.net |
| Website: | http://www.hotpeachpages.net/camerica/ams.html#conta |
| Target: | Girls and Women |
| Organization type: | National NGO (operating countrywide or advocating at the national level) |
| Sectors: | Political Participation/Governance, Legal Rights, Land Rights, Labor Rights, Human Rights, Empowerment, Education |
About
Misión
Facilitar procesos de construcción, a partir de los cuales, mujeres campesinas, trabajadoras del sector informal y trabajadoras del sexo se vuelven protagonistas de su empoderamiento.
La formación en áreas como el liderazgo, organización; la especialización organizativa y el desarrollo de plataformas reivindicativas sectoriales y locales son el medio a través del cual las mujeres involucradas transforman gradualmente su situación de discriminación social.
Objetivo General
Lograr la más alta calidad de vida para las mujeres en el contexto de una sociedad justa, democrática y equitativa, expresada en relaciones igualitarias de poder entre hombres y mujeres.
Activities
Program that implements Health: Through the Maternal and Child Health Program, caters to women of childbearing age, pregnant women and infants between 0 and 5 years of age. The technical staff provides consultation and monitoring the population involved. Access to means of production credits are provided women with limited resources for investing in small businesses. Addition and guides are trained in the management of the funds they receive. Non-formal education: Literacy is used as a vehicle for empowerment of women. They are literacy circles and circles of new readers. Preventing Violence: Through the women's committees, served and report cases of violence in communities. Self-help groups promote the strengthening of self-esteem of women in general and attacked in particular. Ecofeminism: It emphasizes and promotes the harmonious relationship between women and nature. This will promote environmental protection from the appropriation of new ecological knowledge and active participation of those involved. Access to organizational expressions: Women organize and specialize in defense committees and clubs, so that from them, claim communal rights in the municipal area. " Flight of the Butterfly ": train and orient sex workers in San Salvador, San Miguel and the port of Acajutla in the areas of prevention, care and voluntary retirement. Working in health, psychology, gender theory and legal issues
