Press coverage | Yo quiero yo puedo

WHAT DRIVES US

Improving lives, facilitating alternatives

Yo quiero Yo puedo is a Mexican non-governmental organization. It was created in 1985 as the Mexican Institute of Family and Population Research (IMIFAP) in response to research that showed the lack of control women in Ciudad Nezahuahacotl, Mexico had over their health. Today, our commitment is to empower individuals, enabling them to develop behaviors that allow them to take control of their lives, fully realizing their potential.

TriplePundit
Workers’ Wellbeing Can Create a More Sustainable Apparel Industry — and Boost Profits
October 20, 2015
...workers’ wellbeing doesn’t have to be at odds with profitability. In fact, workers enabled with life skills are more productive at work, make fewer mistakes and have lower rates of absenteeism. Henry Ford was one of the first business leaders who promoted workers’ wellbeing — for business reasons.
Susan Pick
Fortune
Can Levi's Make Life Better for Garment Workers?
September 08, 2017
Once Yo quiero Yo puedo started training supervisors and got them leading the daily exercises at AI, things changed; supervisors began relating to the people they’d been barking orders at.
Inter-American Development Bank
Latin American civil society organizations receive Juscelino Kubitschek award
March 18, 2012
Four organizations received the award for their outstanding contributions to promote social and economic development ... Three years after its creation, this award has become the most important distinction granted by a multilateral institution in the region.
C&A Foundation
Evaluation: C&A Foundation I want to, I can… take care of myself and improve my productivity, Mexico
June 19, 2017
I feel very well, very happy. I enjoy my job, I feel that working in teams is good, the more communication we have as a team the easier we achieve our objectives, right?
Female worker
Goodreads
Breaking the Poverty Cycle: The Human Basis for Sustainable Development
July 26, 2010
Pick and Sirkin show how IMIFAP, a Mexican NGO, has employed a development strategy to encourage the establishment of a participatory, healthy and educated citizenry.
English
YO QUIERO YO PUEDO LEADERSHIP
General Director 
Martha Edith Givaudan Moreno
Administration and Finance Director 
Héctor Gabriel Pérez Ruíz
Executive Board
President 
Dra. Susan Emily Pick Steiner
1st Vice President 
Ronald Gimbel Karlebach
2nd Vice President 
Patricia Andrade Palos
Finance Secretary 
Sonia Aida Clara Weiss Pick
Treasurer 
Patricia Andrade Palos
International Advisory Board
Angelo Blanken
Chris Hofmann
Daniel Vazquez Bello
Eva Steider
Mauricio Simbeck
Robert Gordon Brown
National Advisory Board
Adriana Basulto
Alberto Kritzler
Alejandra Borja Sarmiento
Amanda Jacobson
Ana López Mestre
Ángel Ramón García Gómez
Ari Luis Holtzman Warszawski
Arturo Weiss Pick
Cordelia González
Daniel Perez
Diego Yturbe Verea
Elías Mekler Klachky
Gustavo Rivera Loret de Mola
Ileana María López Pérez
Laura Cervantes
Martha González Saravia
Monica Stilman
Nancy Hernández Yáñez
Olivia Manning
Tonatiuh Rodriguez
English
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