Immigrants
NEWS CEBICAMEX ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
CEBICAMEX opens new class for day laborers in North County San Diego
Maestro Hector Rodriguez and Community Garden Coordinator Bill De La Source. In northern San Diego County there is a large population of Mexican immigrants. Therefore, CEBICAMEX start a training class focused on building skills to increase support especially temporary workers known as “laborers.” These migrants, who generally have no legal status of work, seek work in construction, maintenance of buildings and houses, gardening and agricultural work. Every day laborers gather outside shops where they are sold construction materials, which patiently wait for potential employers who employ them for a day or hours.
Hector Rodriguez, an immigrant from Michoacan who now has his own construction company, is who will train students in how to use cement and other materials, such as taking measurements and making estimates of work to be done, as well as teach them building codes required in the U.S.. The course will be conducted in a community garden located in the nearby city of Vista, CA. All this, in collaboration with a local organization in charge of sponsorship of the garden.
and secondary. To date approximately 45 students are attending this program. After the emotional gradation, it conducted a convivial prepared by the students themselves.
Plaza Comunitaria
From September 1, 2009, all students attending the Community Plaza Training Center Toribio Romo, are being contacted to be resettled in other Community Plazas that best meet their needs. Already there have been talks with various places around the former Toribio Romo, who for various issues can not attend the premises of ACCESS. However, several of these students, if they have chosen to follow regardless of distance and other issues. We currently have about 35 students enrolled.
Following up students from the Plaza Comunitaria en Toribio Romo did not lose interest in their studies and to continue to maintain contact with this community we have been in talks with various organizations such as Sherman Heights Community Center and Elementary School Kimbough. This was done for the near future, to offer community classes English, computers, micro and other services as needed. Thus, we maintain contact with this community and optimize resources to join forces with other organizations.
Opens new service center in Chula Vista
As part of the new CEBICAMEX program strategy to expand our reach to all corners of San Diego County established a new training center at the mall in Chula Vista, CA. Located just 10 kilometers from the international border with Tijuana, Chula Vista has more than 50% of Mexican population. From the beginning the classes were a great success. Before classes had already registered more than 80 people for only 60 places available. In this new center will offer English and computer classes in Spanish.
The Chula Vista Adult School (Adult School Chula Vista) is the one who provides the teachers of both classes at no cost to CEBICAMEX. This also as part of new strategies for collaboration between ACCESS and other local organizations.
of Grameen Bank, has shown how their groups of lenders, small groups of people who know very well between themselves and those running a small savings fund which lend each other to launch their micro-have proven an effective strategy to combat poverty. This has been true not only in developing countries with Yunus in Bangladesh, but has also showndo to be effective in other Latin American countries and the United States of America.
In collaboration with the University of San Diego and two other nonprofit organizations, and ACCESS CEBICAMEX are participating in bringing the Grameen Model to San Diego to support migrants who need financing to start their businesses. The program coordinator Elena Cruz, has many years of experience implementing this model through the Foundation for Women.
Development program for jobs of Obama helps young immigrants
More than 140 young Mexican immigrants of Mexican parents, or perhaps they themselves were born there, were enrolled in the Program for Youth Summer Employment ACCESS. The boys were assigned to jobs in the private sector, government offices, schools and nonprofit organizations, among other places, to learn job skills, in addition to earning $ 8 an hour.
The program began in early July and end in September, and had an economic income of over $ 130,000 in salaries for these young people and so, in their families who were hard hit by the economic crisis affecting the country. All youth in this program were to be allowed to work legally in the U.S., this was one of the conditions to qualify, in addition to being low-income family.
Youth Program for Summer Jobs Toribio Romo
The Training Center gives Toribio Romo was THERE Program (for its initials in English) during the summer of 2009. During the months of July and August, 6 young men from the neighboring community center incorporated the program, but also incorporated more like 2 young volunteers. The idea of this program, unlike the rest of their peers in other organizations, was that young men had to create and manage a microenterprise. For this, the director of the Training Center and CEBICAMEX Toribio Romo, Manlio César Correa, was associated as a volunteer and receive training in a teaching model called the Junior Achievement (JA). JA is an organization with global presence and specializes in providing education on how to be entrepreneurs, job skills, and financial education for children and youth.
The model used was the JA Company Program (Junior Achievement Enterprise Program). This model in combination with micro class offered to adults CEBICAMEX was to help and educate young people on how to create and manage their own business. It started from scratch since the majority of young people had not had any experience of this type. Consensus was that the company would create a community garden for use by the community around Toribio Romo, but this should work as a company for their own sustainability.
The project was a success, since young people not only acquired entrepreneurial skills, learned how to devise, create and manage a sustainable company. Also learned about what is and involves a community garden and its relationship with the community and nature. Another feature of the program was that youth had to consider what the garden was identified with the culture and traditions of our community.
Michoacanos held on 4 October
Migrants from the community of San Francisco Uricho, Michoacán, patron saint festivities held on the campus of the University of San Diego. Women using their colorful traditional dresses and ribbons in her hair, walked in the procession with fruit baskets and other significant gifts. La Banda Natividad followed this procession to the altar of the church where a Franciscan priest celebrated mass.
This annual celebration is organized by migrants in San Diego San Francisco Uricho as a way to keep the customs of his village near the banks of Lake Patzcuaro. Which, many of them have not seen for many years by the difficulty of traveling to Michoacan.
ACCESS and helped with this community CEBICAMEX arranging the use of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, located within the University of San Diego.