Category: Project Updates

Just Two Weeks Away!

Across from the Municipal Government building in Ixtlahuacan stands this beautiful church.  Here, as everywhere we traveled through the area, the plazas are clean and the bushes trimmed.  Even the poorest of homes in the countryside have tidy yards and lovely flowers growing.

In addition to Ixtlahuacan, we visited San Antonio de los Vazquez, Los Palos Altos, and Los Trejos, among other towns in the municipality with our friends from PMC.  You can find this lovely spot due north of Guadalajara on the border with Zacatecas.

Huge Turnout in Ixtlahuacan

Tia’s next project launch will be in the municipality of  Ixtlahuacan del Rio, Jalisco during the week of October 11th.  Laura Libman, Dr. Rico and doctors from UAG’s PMC brigade traveled there to make the final arrangements with the Municipal President, Roberto Martinez.  President Martinez’s wife, Maria Teresa, Ixtlahuacan’s President of the local Integral Family Development department offered her support to the project as well.

Hundreds of people from all around the municipality attended an informational meeting, where Tia’s program was explained and the people were offered the free medical and dental consultations by PMC.  A call for Promotora’s was also held and the dates set for the program.

Stay tuned for more details….

Tia Honored to Be Finalist in Secretary Clinton’s Innovation Award

The Tia Foundation is honored to be named one of 15 finalists in the Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.  We received the happy news after submitting our five page concept paper.  Last week, thanks to the help of friends and volunteers, we sent in our full proposal.  Two organizations will be selected in the final round to receive an award of up to $500,000!

The Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls seeks to find and bring to scale the most pioneering approaches to the political, economic and social empowerment of women and girls around the globe. Founded on the premise that the major economic, security, governance and environmental challenges of our time cannot be solved without the full participation of women at all levels of society, this award supports the Department of State’s commitment to the advancement of women globally.  The Rockefeller Foundation, as part of its mission to expand opportunity and promote more equitable growth, seeks to identify innovative approaches that can be scaled to address these challenges.

UNICEF recommends programs like Tia’s

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. children’s agency says it has failed to reach millions of the world’s neediest boys and girls in slums and remote countryside and is shifting to a strategy of getting critical health care services to the poorest of the poor.

UNICEF’s new approach would likely concentrate more on such initiatives as training rural health workers and building schools in remote areas, and less on building big modern hospitals and universities in cities.

“They are the heroes in the fight against the second wave of disease,” Lake said of the 96,000 employees in Pakistan’s Lady Health Workers program, who provide preventive care and education to more than 90 percent of the nation’s rural population.

Anthony Lake (new Executive Director of UNICEF) said that extensive data analysis since he joined UNICEF in May shows that grass-roots health, education and other development programs inside the most vulnerable communities could improve the lives of the world’s poorest children significantly and ensure they live long enough to go to school.

We would like to thank UNICEF and the Associated Press for publishing another testament to the effectiveness of programs like Tia’s.