Leveraging community wisdom to create long-lasting change
Workforce Development
The Workforce Development Department prepares participants for the formal workforce through vocational skills training and work readiness support to bolster participants professional development and employability.
Accelerated Education
The Accelerated Education Program provides free and accredited schooling to adult learners who experienced socioeconomic barriers to completing traditional education and were consequently excluded from the labor market.
Emotional Support
Creamos Voces, our Emotional Support pillar, expands access to mental health and psycho-educational services for individuals impacted by gender-based violence and their associated challenges.
Income-Generation
Mi eelo, Creamos’ social business branch, employs community artisans and seamstresses, offering them an alternative income to dangerous work.
Our Story
Like all great stories, ours begins with a group of women who challenged the status quo.
They grew up in a community with limited resources and even less opportunities for dignified work, forcing them to engage in high-risk work in the garbage dump. In 2008, these women decided this wasn’t the reality their children would inherit. After learning how to make jewelry out of recycled paper from a local university program, these women decided to pursue the craft and sell their products to generate an income. They called their entrepreneurial initiative Creamos, which means “we create”, in Spanish.
Since then, their initiative has grown into much more than they ever imagined. Today, Creamos accompanies hundreds of women out of dangerous work towards safer and healthier futures. Through programs that target pervasive gender inequities and economic insecurity, Creamos’ combats low education levels, high rates of gender-based violence, and structural exclusion from the formal employment sector which are all prevalent within the target community.
Creamos Impact
Fifteen years
600+ active participants
151 jobs created
267 students who have re-engaged with their education
431 children enrolled in Creamos childcare program
