Who We Are
Our mission is to empowering the most marginalized populations of New Mexico including refugee, other immigrant local low income women girls and their families, to attain self sufficiency through education, economic development, and strengthened life skills, thereby addressing the social, economical, emotional and educational needs of their children.
What We Do
Our focus is sewing, weaving, micro enterprise, finance, computer, English as a second Language skills training as well as other strengthened life skills. We wish to see improvement in the area of self-sufficiency and self-help by offering a nurturing environment that respects the self-worth and dignity of women, girls and their families. Current participants are marginalized local low income people, refugees, asylees, immigrant women, girls and their families. Families served are from Africa, Asia, the United States Of America, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Cuba and Mexico. NMWGP serves people regardless of their sex, age, sexual orientation, religion or cultural identity. Case management is provided to all families of participants regardless of membership at our center.
