Our Vision
Integrando a Mexico is a youth empowerment course whose organizers are committed to providing uniquely liberating and empowering educational experiences to young
people from across Mexico. We strongly believe that each young person has the energy, the motivation, and the power to help generate an equal, prosperous, and sustainable present and future for his or her community. Through a free, horizontal, plural, and
enriching learning environment where inclusion, constructive dialogue, cooperation, empathy, solidarity, and intercultural understanding prevail, we want as many young people from Mexico as possible to harness those elements with the tools, ideas, experiences,
resources, and inspiration they need to bring social justice and peace for their communities.
Note: Please watch our English fundraising video at the bottom of this page.
Our Program
"Integrando a México is a wonderful, unique educational space of freedom, inclusiveness, dialogue, analysis, learning, empathy, solidarity, action, and cooperation where people learn, share, grow, experience, and become empowered to make a
positive change in the world. Which young person would not want to live it?" - Patricio Provencio (General Coordinator)
A group of 14 high school and university students from across the globe will select and bring together a group of 35 enthusiastic, open-minded, idealistic, and community-oriented Mexicans aged 16 to 18 to participate in Integrando a México 2014, a youth empowerment
course that will take place in the city of San Miguel de Allende between the 7th of July and the 3rd of August.
The course’s unique and highly dynamic 4-week experiential education program includes Peace Agency Workshops, Community Service Projects, Creative Action Workshops, Social Problems Workshops, Civic Engagement Workshops, and Social Project Development Workshops.
In the Peace Agency Workshops, the participants will acquire and reinforce a wealth of key values and skills in the generation of peace and social justice such as empathy, social awareness, creativity, ethical leadership, respect and promotion of human rights,
unity, and teamwork. At the same time, participants will engage in Social Problems Workshops, which seek to provide the participants with the opportunity to learn about, analyze, empathize, and reflect upon current social problems in Mexico thorough presentations
and discussions with their peers.
For the second week, the participants will collaborate with local organizations in the Community Projects section, which allows them have a more profound understanding of the community residents’ daily reality, analyze and reflect upon a particular local
social problem, and contribute with a small but significant project that has a positive social impact. Furthermore, during this week, the participants will take part in the Creative Action Workshops. During this section, they will become aware about the role
of arts in generating social change and then get together in groups to create cultural projects of their own in areas such as Theater, Music, Visual Arts, and Literature that tackle social problems they have previously explored.
In the third week, the participants will be part of the Civic Engagement Workshops. In this section, they will obtain a profound perspective on Mexico’s political system and public life and reflect on the role of civic engagement and politics in transforming
life conditions in their communities and generating social wellbeing. Also, they will develop a strong spirit of social activism and civic engagement as learn how to be more active, critical, and effective citizens capable of generating a stronger, more inclusive
democracies in their communities and around the country. At the end of the week, the participants will attend the Integrando a México 2014 Conference, an event that will allow them to hear politicians, intellectuals, artists, and social activists talk about
different public life issues and the work that they do to tackle them.
Finally, in the fourth week we will carry out the Social Project Development Workshops. In these workshops, the participants will learn about and analyze past and current efforts of social activists and non-governmental organizations to address a wide range
of social issues. Secondly, with the help of the staff and social activists in-residence, they will learn how to design and carry out a social project and create deeply impactful social projects of their own that are able to create spaces and opportunities
for community development and generate community development on the basis of justice, equality, sustainability, respect and promotion of human rights, and care and protection of the environment.
The Future We Are Creating
At the end of Integrando a México 2014, through their respective projects and the wide variety of experiences, ideas, tools, resources, and contacts that they gain throughout the course’s intense and immersive program, the participants will
be able to work as a national network of highly aware, motivated, committed, critical and capable citizens, students, and activists that form an important part of current societal efforts that pursue the construction of an inclusive, collaborative, and democratic
society and the resolution of vast social problems that affect the quality of life of millions of Mexicans.
When you donate to Integrando a México, you contribute to the generation of Mexican changemakers that will be forever committed with the wellbeing of all. What are you waiting for? Donate today!
