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Gender Childhood and Youth on the move

Feminism as a priority area in migration

Angélica Gómez 9 March 2020

Angélica Gómez is part of Fondo Semillas, a nonprofit organisation focused on improving women’s lives in Mexico and a sponsor of the Gender, Youth, and Children on the Move conference in Tijuana. Her reflection is …


Resistance, care and learning

Gilda Álvarez 6 March 2020

‘Insist, persist, resist, and never desist…’ I found this phrase on a sign on a wall one day as I walked down the street, and the only thing I thought was: ‘Now, what is going …


The faces of migrant youth

Nancy Perez 6 March 2020

In response to the Gender, Children and Youth on the Move conference in Tijuana, Nancy Pérez, a local youth leader from Jóvenes por el Cambio and a professional boxer based in Guatemala, wrote the following …

Funders as allies in the movement for migrant rights

Vanessa Stevens 28 February 2020

‘They won’t even let us buy coffee for meetings, only water,’ shared one grassroots leader as she dialogued with funders and fellow participants at the Gender, Children, and Youth on the Move convening last week. …

Youth are the present, not the future

Marco A. Blanco 28 February 2020

At Global Fund for Children (GFC), our work is designed to benefit, empower, and safeguard children and youth around the world ­­– and a considerable percentage of social progress work shares the same goal. To …

Gender, childhood & youth on the move: ‘visibilizing’ the invisible

Eliza Brennan 27 February 2020

This past week, I had the honor of participating in the Gender, Childhood & Youth on the Move conference in Tijuana, which brought together over 75 nonprofit organizations from Central America, Mexico and the United …

Relationships over indicators

Jill Anderson 27 February 2020

The ‘Gathering on Gender, Childhood, and Youth on the Move‘ brought together grassroots migrant rights organisations, feminist’s groups, and youth-led collectives from across Mexico and Central America. There were a lot of amazing people in …

Reality check: are we practicing trust based philanthropy?

John Hecklinger 25 February 2020

Last week in Tijuana at the Gender, Childhood, and Youth on the Move conference we closed the day with a session bringing funders and organisations together in a space for ‘frank and horizontal dialogue between donors …

Stand with leaders shifting the power (even from you)

John Hecklinger 21 February 2020

It’s critical we learn how to truly engage and work with leaders flipping power dynamics even if it means dismantling our own systems of power. Yesterday in Tijuana, Mexico, we kicked off a major conference …