Talk: Hunger, a structural symptom causing forced mobility in Mesoamerica

FOCA (Formación y Capacitación A. C.)

FOCA is an organization formed in 1998 in Chiapas, Mexico, mainly made up of women. We work with women and their families on the Mexico-Guatemala border, from a gender perspective, with models of care that we have designed for a comprehensive accompaniment of women alone or with their families who are transiting and seeking asylum in Mexico.

For more than 10 years, we have promoted a network of grassroots organizations in four countries: southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. This Mesoamerican Network of Women, Health and Migration promotes human rights and women’s rights to migrate and not to migrate in the communities of origin.

Also, from our organization, we promoted the first women’s observatory of the border and we have created a border community structure for the defense of women’s rights in migration.

We have also created a radio program, Las Moradas, which is broadcasted on community radio stations where the Network has an impact. It promotes programs on the rights to land, health and work from a gender perspective.

foca.org.mx