Who we are?
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We exist so that children and young people in situations of social exclusion can choose a life they value, free from violence and in the full exercise of their rights.
We expand their resources, strengthen their skills, and facilitate their access to development opportunities through personalized support that responds to their needs and interests, and allows us to work with their families and their community.
We are a non-profit, non-religious, and non-partisan civil society organization. We operate our own programs directly in the field. We have been active since 2013 and were formally established in 2017.
Our history
Since 2013 we create virtuous futures that are born from the imagination.
Since 2013, we have been creating virtuous futures born from imagination. In 2013, the increase in insecurity and violence in Malinalco became very troublesome. As a result, several community members came together to create a process of reflection and diagnosis.We identified problems of inequality and lack of social cohesion in the community. We realized that the most affected population was the young people of San Martín, the most impoverished neighborhood in the municipality. Thus, the neighbors interested in the issue formed the Imaginalco committee and decided to focus on prevention work with these young people.
This gave rise to what is now a comprehensive model of violence prevention in the municipality. The tireless search and struggle toward a more just, united, peaceful Malinalco, with opportunities for all, has forced us to evolve and focus fundamentally on promoting the integral development of the children and young people with whom we work.
Mission and vision
Mission
We help girls, boys, and young people in Malinalco choose and live a life they value, through a personalized, comprehensive and continuous accompaniment model, that promotes their rights to protection from violence, development, and participation.
- Has the ability to take decisions about his life project
- generate and search opportunities to transform your life or environment.
- keeps a satisfaction personally with his life.
Accompaniment: actions aimed at strengthen their capacities from two components:
- Internal or psychological: addresses skills, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors.
- External or social: it addresses relationships at the family, educational and community levels and the determinants of the environment.
This accompaniment is given under a scheme:
- Personalized: takes into account the specific needs and strengths of each participant.
- Comprehensive: considers all the elements that affect the person (individual, family, social).
- Continuous: we are present in the community and with the doors open constantly.
Vision
By 2028, to be a solid and sustainable organization, with its own and replicable model to contribute to the development of capacities in the in girls, boys, and young people in social exclusion in Mexico.
- Healthy finances: Count on the economic resources necessary to maintain the existence and operation of our intervention for one year, and with sufficient sources of financing to allow the medium-term planning of our programs.
- Administration, transparency and accountability: Having processes and capabilities suitable for an efficient and transparent administration of resources, and for timely compliance with legal and fiscal obligations.
- Organizational culture: Ensure that all the people who collaborate in the operational team and in the board of directors share values, pillars and objectives that guide our actions and decisions.
- Strategic alliances: Identify, establish and maintain alliances with organizations, institutions and networks that allow us to enhance the impact at the local, regional and national level.
- Human resources: Have adequate processes for attract, retain and train constantly to a suitable team that can give continuity to the work we do, at different levels of the organization (operating team, management, and council).
- An intervention model that lives and goes through the organization internally.
- It has been built participatively, based on the interests, needs, strengths and proposals of the community.
- Part of learning from other good practices, which have been adapted and tested in the context in which we work.
- It incorporates the approaches of the organization, has theoretical and empirical foundation, enables results to be measured and reported, and it is documented so that it can be replicated.
That we can demonstrate that our intervention contributes to increasing capacities (knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, skills, resources, networks and opportunities) so that girls, boys and young people can choose and live a life they value.
Values
Commitment
Being aware of the importance of fulfilling our promises, fostering responsibility for our lives and our environment, setting goals, and consistently guiding our actions toward these goals. Being committed leads us to act proactively and purposefully to turn our vision into reality.
Trust
We believe we can build fairer communities, and we believe people have the potential to build more fulfilling lives when given the opportunity. At Imaginalco, trust is the certainty that comes from believing in others and, therefore, empowering them to act on their own decisions.
Empathy
Empathy is the intention to understand the emotions and feelings of others. It is what drives us to want to help each other. At Imaginalco, we start with empathy to understand the people and communities we work with, to design strategies that respond to their needs and perceptions. We also foster empathy within our team in order to support each other more effectively.
Team
Board of Directors
Experienced and visionary individuals who volunteer their time to support Imaginalco's sustainability, transparency, and professionalism.
Daniel Kuri
President
Francisco Ibañez
Secretary
advisers
Columba Suinaga Romero de Terreros
Miracles Fernandez Fernandez
Omar Gonzalo Merida Ariceaga
Alfonso Fierro Garza
advisers
Hernan Sabau Garcia
Ivo Palafox Padilla
Ana Romero de Terreros Gomez Morin
Directors
The people responsible for ensuring that what we do is possible, sustainable, and supports our objectives.
Marcela Orraca
Executive director
Ines Carrion
Program Director
Angelica Montes
Program Coordinator
Elizabeth Perez
Director of Fundraising
Educators
Experienced people responsible for leading or implementing our activities, projects, and programs with children, adolescents, and young adults.
Formal Education Program
Selene Ferreyra
Program leader
Elizabeth Noriega
Educator
Game for Development Program
Victor Castillo
Program leader
Bony Hernandez
Educator
Elizabeth Noriega
Educator
Alejandro Luna
Coach
Yen Rodriguez
Coach
Yareli García
Coach
Mariana Hernández
Educator
Healthy Families Program
Charles Ponce de Leon
Program leader
Beatrice Motta
Educator
María Guadalupe Vázquez
Educator
Fernando Martínez
Educator
ASINoJugamos Program
Nayeli Sanchez
Program leader
Guadalupe Amilpa
Educator
Mictlan
Ximena Camu
Director
Administration
People in charge of the proper functioning and use of our resources and spaces.
Maria del Carmen Hernandez
Cleaning lady
Communication and Innovation
Team in charge of enhancing our ability to communicate, connect, and learn from others.
Lorenza Kuri Breña
Director of Communications and Institutional Development
Cecilia Hernández
Communications Leader
Seis Garritas
People in charge of our second-hand bazaar.
Lourdes Escobar
Coordinator
María José Chagre
Assistant
Xoloplastics
Team that transforms discarded plastic into works of art.
Julia Marin
Executive Director
Liliana Noriega
Promoter of Alliances
Quetzalli Castaneda
Promoter of Matter Prhyme
Tania Gomez
Product Promoter
Guadalupe Catzin
Production Promoter
America Tetatzin
Environmental Promoter
Emerald Souk
Environmental Promoter
Gabriela Castaneda
Environmental Promoter
Karen Tetatzin
Environmental Promoter
Marcela Garcia
Environmental Promoter
Karina Pliego
Environmental Promoter
Elizabeth Corral
Julia Marin
Alfred Rivera
Maricarmen Corral
White Dorsal
Ane Alferan
Alliances built
We know that by building connections within and beyond the community, Imaginalco becomes stronger.
We forge alliances with institutions and groups that we can support with our strengths, and vice versa.
We seek to join forces with foundations, organizations, and socially responsible companies interested in investing time and resources in the development of Mexican children and youth.
Our main donors
You make our work possible!