Mujeres de Esperanza y Fe: The Sewing Cooperative

Las Mujeres de Esperanza y Fe - Women of Hope and Faith

 We are a faith-based comunity founded in 1996 for the spiritual,
educational, and economic empowerment of women who are economically poor. Our Women's Center is located in Colonia Panfilo Natera, a marginal colonia in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. We seek a better future for ourselves and our families through our fundamental values: respect, love, friendship, justice, peace, moral security, and
sisterly love with persons of different cultures.

We are thirty women who work together three days a week and gather on the fourth day to pray and reflect on our lives together in community. We share our joys and our sorrows, our hopes and our challenges with each other in both our work and our prayer.

Mission Statement

In "La Lucha" with Jesus and women of our world, we women of Las Mujeres de Esperanza y Fe are a faith-based community voicing our dreams and goals in community decision-making and working together for spiritual development, economic empowerment, and self-determination.

Los Productos - Cooperative Products

All of the products produced in our cooperative are hand-made of Mexican
material from the State of Michoacan and reflect our identity as Mexican women. Besides the products pictured here we also take special orders. We have made curtains and tablecloths for restaurants, crocheted baby blankets and quilts. Our love for color and design is evident in our products.

What We Can Use

The cooperative can always use:

• Thread - all colors
• Cotton quilting fabric
• Sewing Scissors
• Safety Pins
• Small Gold safety Pins
• We can not use fabric made of synthetics

Para el cooperativo podemos utilizar:

• Hilo de todos colores
• los Imperdibles
• los Imperdibles pequeños de oro
• Tijeras
• Tela algodon acolchada
• no podemos utilizar tela de sintético