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Giving young women opportunities to have a brighter future
The Gibson Soto Foundation works to break the poverty cycle by supporting young women from impoverished or marginalized communities in Mexico to complete university-level education and providing additional programs and developmental skills to integrate our women from poverty to middle class.
Our Mission
Contribute to ending poverty and building a more equitable society by providing talented young women from rural or marginalized communities with access to quality college education, comprehensive development, and tools for their empowerment. Through a model of academic training, leadership, and human development, we foster their autonomy and their capacity to transform their lives and their communities.
Our Vision
To be a driving force for sustainable social change, where every woman can access quality education, overcome poverty, and reach her full potential with equal opportunities. We aspire to develop impactful leaders, women capable of generating prosperity and gender equity in their communities and society, contributing to the construction of a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.
The Human Rights-Based Approach: Dignity at the Heart of Our Work
We adopt a human rights-based approach because we recognize that every young person has the inherent right to education, health, an adequate standard of living, and the right to develop their full potential.
This means:
● We identify the structural causes: We delve into the roots of inequality and poverty that prevent young women from fully exercising their rights.
● We empower rights holders: We not only provide support, but we also strengthen our students’ capacity to understand, claim, and defend their own rights and those of their communities.
● We guarantee non-discrimination: We ensure that our program is accessible and beneficial to the most talented young women from rural communities, regardless of their background.
● We promote participation: We actively listen to our students’ voices, allowing them to be the protagonists of their own educational and life journeys.
● We foster accountability: We operate with complete transparency, ensuring that resources are used efficiently and that results positively impact the lives of young women.
We Align Ourselves with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
As an institution, we want to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and support the following objectives and goals:
End of poverty
Goals we align ourselves with:
● By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured by a person living on less than $1.25 (USD) a day.
● By 2030, reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
Quality Education
Goals we align ourselves with:
● By 2030, ensure equal access for all men and women to quality technical, vocational and higher education, including university education.
● By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults with the necessary skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.
● By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
Gender equality
Goals we align ourselves with:
● Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
● Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
The Gibson Soto Foundation is a 501c3 in the United States and a registered Private Assistance Institution (IAP) in Mexico.
Our program focuses on empowering young women of Mexico to break the cycle of poverty through our programs of education, self-development, and life skills. We are helping women from marginalized and impoverished areas become engineers, psychologists, nutritionists, and so much more through our work. We even have a classical pianist!
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The Gibson Soto Foundation works to break the cycle of poverty and achieve the sustainable development of communities through education, uplifting human beings, and generating peace and prosperity.
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