Centro Del Pueblo Movimiento Indigena Migrante

Our program for Sanctuary Gardens has been successful in several ways, most importantly providing foods that are familiar to the community we serve. We are creating a space where our community feels safe and welcome to come and enjoy time with their families working the earth. This provides a safe area free from discrimination for our Latinx and Indigenous migrant community. We feed out of our 2 gardens around 100 people and use the space for holding events and practicing cultural revitalization, food sovereignty, passing intergenerational knowledge pertaining to food cultivation. There have been acts of vandalism and hate crimes at the garden and raised some funds for garden security in 2022. Don't fight back, fight forward.

Our Program Know your Rights is our community empowerment and problem solving program. We hold community meeting to determine community needs and offer a space to develop solutions for the broader community. it is also how we develop new programs. We share community resources to the Latinx and Indigenous relatives from the south. We have given out 1200 covid tests as well as information in Spanish on the virus in 2022. Resources include how to access medical services, access to food pantries, and direction for community members who wish to develop trade skills. We gathered resources throughout Humboldt and translated them to Spanish. It is also the platform for the community to understand their rights as immigrants in the United States. We have good traffic on social media for upcoming community events. All together we probably reached and shared these resources to over 3000 families in 2022. Accomplishment in 2023: We have expanded this program to include youth Programming to provide resources on mental health, the importance of our culture and destigmatize topics among the youth. Its opening a new direction for the organization as a resource for families and community. Once the Youth program becomes self-sufficient, independent we will break it off into its own program.

Our program Hermana Flor is our women's program for dealing with gendered violence, adverse experiences and showcasing the strength and importance of women in our community. . We recognized the role of women in preserving our cultural knowledge and traditions into our Sanctuary Gardens through teaching dance and embroidery. In addition, we began to revitalize our indigenous languages such as Zapoteco and Mixteco, using our culture to empower these women in their process of healing. We facilitate conversations on healing from trauma and gendered violence , empowering our elders to teach and share their experiences with the younger generation. The Hermana Flor group is about 25 women and children. The children have been learning traditional dance and embroidery from the elders. Accomplishment in 2023: We have learned a total of 2 dances traditional dances which we do performances for the community. Flor de Pina and Flor Munidita. we started a second group for dance therapy, Baile Terapia, which is a mix of Zumba and Cumbia. This one is much faster paced and used as exercise and stress relief for the community. The art and cultural aspects have been really exposed in the broader community increasing diversity here.

Our Semilla Communications Program: Our Semilla Communications program is our Spanish Language media Program. We produce quarterly a Magazine La Semilla, recurring shows on KMUD and KZZH radio in Spanish and also holds our social media campaigns. This year 2023 it became a critical resource for the community after a bad earthquake in Rio Dell. We provided the only disaster response in Humboldt County in Spanish, the lack of governmental resources for the Spanish community became evident and through our program we informed, educated and empowered the Spanish speaking community to access the resources, news and information available to other sectors of the community.