The Private Assistance Institution (IAP) Brigadas de Amistad, legally constituted for 23 years before the Board of Private Assistance of the State of Mexico (Japem), it directly benefits more than 80 heads of households, including single mothers, elderly women, minors, people with a disability or chronic illness.
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In coordination with Japem, an organism sectorized to the Secretariat of Social Development, the support of the Friendship Brigades reaches beneficiaries of the municipalities of Toluca, Almoloya de Juárez and Zinacantepec, where one of its actions is to offer training workshops to housewives, with a view to enabling them to carry out some commercial activity and improve their economic situation.
Such is the case of María Luisa Rosales Flores, 69, who lives in the town of Santiaguito Tlalcilalcalli, in the municipality of Almoloya de Juárez, together with her husband, who worked as an operator of a 12-ton truck, and now suffers from diabetes, kidney failure and requires hemodialysis.
In her home, María Luisa Rosales shows in her face the strength of the country woman, and Wearing a mask, he recounts how he has benefited from the courses to help his family, including his grandchildren.
“Well, right now I’m sewing, God first, Well, let’s see if I can sell them, even with friends, because how can you not get out, “he said.
In the same way, he expressed his approval about the work carried out between the social assistance institutions and the government of the state of Mexico to reach the most retired communities of the entity and make the villagers self-sufficient.
“I would like so that, well now, even with my daughters, that they learn and then other people too, that is, those who were there also to teach us how to do it so that they can feed their children, in case there is nothing to feed them ”.
About those who live with her, she specified “nothing else is my husband, me and my granddaughter. He is already retired, he is sick with it, that is, he is on hemodialysis ”.
Among the courses she has taken, apart from sewing, there is the making of flags.
“We began to be taught to make, to make the flags, to melt the butter, then add the flour, beat it well, Ah! and an egg, it is beaten well and then he grabs one, now he does the toothpick, puts one in the sausage and one puts it in the flour that is ready to be made ”.
Finally, he added that, regarding what was learned in the Friendship Brigades Foundation courses, “I do plan to start a business, even if it is small, I do plan to do so, well to help my husband and now my grandchildren, that later they come to visit me, as I told them to donate because there are many people, we need it a lot ”.
It is worth mentioning that Friendship Brigades has offered information about prevention and hygiene measures to the families it benefits, distributing more than 600 filter masks, antibacterial gel and creating awareness about the respect of sanitary precautions.
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