MixtecoIndigena Indigena Community Organizing Project

Direct assistance: micop operates a monthly food and basic needs distribution through it's Community meeting program. The organization provides one-time financial assistance support to families in crisis and has a rental support program. Each year the organization coordinates collections and distributions of school materials in august.

Immigration legal services: mila provides various immigration legal services to the indigenous migrant Community, such as assistance with daca and citizenship applications, support for unaccompanied minors in sijs cases, and petitions for advance parole, among others.

Community empowerment: micop enhances the capacity of the indigenous migrant population for self-leadership through intensive trainings provided to the Community. Micop also empowers the Community by training Community members to be disc jockeys (djs) on micop's Community radio station, currently broadcasting via the internet. The djs provide informational and culturally relevant programming in Mixteco, zapoteco, purepecha, english and spanish. Micop's Community Organizing works with the Community to help them advocate for their own needs. We also hold Community meetings, which are attended by an average of 250 families and each month, where speakers talk about relevant information to the Community. Training of internal leaders has provided a staff that is 85% indigenous origin and a board of directors with 40% indigenous membership.