Tuscan Farm to Table Dinner benefiting Mujeres en Cambio

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  • Tuscan Farm to Table Dinner benefiting Mujeres en Cambio

    Saturday, December 1
    4 to 7:00 pm

    Villa Tocana

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    Among the architectural delights of San Miguel is a Tuscan villa in the rolling countryside north of town. Many have enjoyed the hospitality and beauty of this special home and you will once again have that opportunity as Mujeres en Cambio presents a Tuscan Farm to Table Dinner on Saturday, December 1.

    This culinary event will begin at 4:00 pm with a Cocktail Reception in the lovely stone patio and garden filled with olive, pomegranate and citrus trees. A four course seated dinner in farm to table style will follow at 5:00 complete with wine pairing for each course. All of the food will be presented by local chefs from many amazing San Miguel restaurants and caterers and all the produce will be sourced from local organic farms.

    The proceeds from this event will give educational assistance to 178 deserving young women living in the rural communities surrounding San Miguel. Mujeres en Cambio begins providing scholarships to girls in the 8th grade and continues through their graduation from university. This year we are pleased to announce that more than 50 of our scholarship recipients are enrolled in advanced education programs. While university attendance and graduation is our ultimate goal, the increasing number of those matriculating from high school to university creates the need for more funding each year. For this reason, your support and generosity are so very important and so appreciated. Your commitment to these young women is truly changing lives for the better.

    We look forward to presenting this fabulous event to you! Tickets are on sale for $1200 pesos at Tesoros at the Biblioteca, Insurgentes 25; Solutions, Recreo 11; Abrazos, Zacateros 24; and by PayPal for $65 USD at www.mujeresencambio.org/events. Directions to Villa Toscana will be provided with your ticket and on the website. For further information please go to www.mujeresencambio.com or email mhaskett7@yahoo.com.



    Educating Girls is the Key to Ending Poverty

    The objective of Mujeres en Cambio is to foster the independence, education and enhanced quality of life  of impoverished rural women and girls in the areas surrounding San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.   Our aim is to recognize, honor and empower these women, supporting them to obtain an education  or to begin or continue self-sustaining projects that benefit them and their families.

    Mujeres en Cambio (MeC), a not-for-profit organization, was founded in 1995 by a small group of women—both American expatriates and Mexican citizens—who were concerned about the plight of the impoverished women in the rural communities (campo) surrounding San Miguel de Allende. These founders recognized that improving the educational prospects for rural women and teaching them skills that would enable them to earn an income was one of the surest ways to provide them with a pathway to an improved future. This led to our current Scholarship Program and the Rug Hook Project.

    The Scholarship Program:  Improving the Educational Prospects for Rural Women The founders’ primary objective was to provide financial assistance to young girls in the rural communities surrounding San Miguel who would not otherwise be able to continue their education. In Mexico, education is free only through the 6th grade. For education beyond that level, students are required to pay for tuition, books, school supplies, exams, transportation, school uniforms and shoes. These expenditures often are too costly for many families and as a result, their children drop out of school. A scholarship from Mujeres en Cambio makes it possible for a girl who is an excellent student and maintains a high GPA to continue her education—from junior high school (secondaria) through senior high school (preparatoria) and through university.  Our first scholarships were awarded to seven very deserving young girls in 1995. The Scholarship program has grown exponentially since those early days.  For the 2017-2018 school year, MeC granted 132 scholarships to girls in secondaria and preparatoria at an annual cost per student of $5,500 pesos, and granted 42 scholarships to university students at an annual cost per student of $20,500 pesos. While this amount does not cover all school costs, it is critical in helping a student reach her educational goals. This opportunity will enhance her quality of life and capacity for independence.

    The Rug-Hook Project:  Teaching Skills to Earn Incomes One of MeC’s early projects included teaching embroidery classes in San Miguel to rural women. Many of these women had to travel a great distance from remote villages to attend classes, often forfeiting a day’s work in the fields or the income from selling their home-grown produce. Those women who were able to attend at least a few classes came from one village—Agustin Gonzales. After it was suggested that hooked rugs might be a more distinctive and successful craft, classes in rug hooking began  in Agustin Gonzales.This was the genesis of the Rug Hook Project and Las Rancheritas.

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