Help Pro Mujer peer leaders in Mexico learn vital group management skills, financial literacy, and preventive healthcare information.

Why we care: Many women living in impoverished communities have a low status in their homes and communities—suffering domestic abuse, facing harassment, and earning less than men.

How we are solving this: Train clients to be peer leaders and facilitators of vital information, so women have the information and tools to transform themselves into powerful agents of change in the cycle of poverty.

Pro Mujer provides courageous and hardworking women living in impoverished communities across Latin America with access to a holistic suite of financial, health and human development services. These include an integrated package of small loans, savings and insurance services; business, vocational, life skills and empowerment training; and high-quality, low-cost primary health care.

At Pro Mujer centers, clients feel safe and comfortable and have a social space and the support of peers and, especially, peer leaders. Peer leaders are trained in leading and facilitating groups and are provided specialized training to deepen their understanding of women’s empowerment, financial literacy and preventive healthcare topics. This project will provide a full-day advanced training for 200 women clients who serve as leaders among their peers at Pro Mujer centers across Mexico.

Better-trained peer leaders will be able to help reach an estimated 35,000 clients in 25 Pro Mujer centers across Mexico and will help ignite a transformation in each woman’s perception of her own value, which results in behavioral changes that help her overcome obstacles.  

Luisa Daniel Pérez – who tells her inspirational story in this video – is a shining example of this transformation.