Chihuahuan Entrepreneurship Community Foundation
Hello, my name is Mayra. I belong to the Raramuri community and thanks to Fechac’s support, I am also part of a social program that inspires me to find my own skills and capabilities and improve them to build a better future for me, my family and my community‌ Thanks to this, I was able to become a nationwide kickboxing champion, travel to new places that I had never seen before, and even feel the recognition of my dear state of Chihuahua for my sports performance. I would like that, just like me, every citizen of my state could be able to get these and many more opportunities to strive and be happy. Fechac is a Community Foundation that invests in social programs from local Civic Society Organizations and Public Institutions, having an impact in key areas for the sustainable development of Chihuahua, creating better life-changing opportunities for the citizens of our communities. During 2017, we invested over $236 million pesos in the development of 475 programs. Since 1994 until today, we have co-invested in 5,190 programs with a total amount of over $2.3 billion pesos.
Chihuahua in context In the state of Chihuahua are more than 3.5 million inhabitants, of which nearly one seventh live in rural areas. It is the most extensive state in Mexico, representing not less than the 12% of the national territory and has a similar extension to the former Federal Republic of Germany. 30% of the state’s territory is part of “La Sierra Tarahumara”, home of the Tepehuan, Guarojío, Pima and Rarámuri tribes. They face the most extreme weather all year long, short supplies due to droughts, lack of communication and are distant to the communities where the basic health and educational services can reach. Because of its complicated geographical layout, Chihuahua occupies the second place in illiteracy rates among the indigenous communities and first place in death rates. According to the UNDP, the Human Development Index in the “Tarahumara” region can be compared to the index of the Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Fechac’s short story In 1990 an atypical flooding devastated the city of Chihuahua that is usually a desert area, leaving damaged vulnerable families, along with life loss, severe damage to housing as well as public infrastructure, livelihood dissolution and very little chance to recover what was lost. Standing before this situation, the entrepreneurs of Chihuahua gathered to provide resources through a governmental trust and in a sense of solidarity, they promoted a bond between the public, private and social sector to deliver solutions and relief to the most affected families. As a result, the Shared Social Responsibility model was born, and four years later, it gave life to the Chihuahuan Entrepreneurship Community Foundation (Fechac), organization that until today has more than 20 years positively impacting the community.
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Our philosophical heart Our Mission
To create better opportunities for human and social development for the people of Chihuahua.
Our Vision
To be a sustainable, transparent and effective institution, leader in shared social responsibility with an impact in public policies.
Our Values
Values not only define people, they also define organizations; therefore Fechac has established four fundamental values that supplement and nourish its mission and vision: • Common good. • Solidarity. • Subsidiarity. • To give. *Values must be evaluated and analyzed in the original language to be fully understood in order to translate properly please visit our website http://fechac.org/web/en/fechac.php
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Social Investment: Main focus lines We co-invest in Civic Society Organizations legally equivalent to a 501(c)(3) in Mexico or public institutions that operate programs in the state of Chihuahua focused in one of the following lines of impact: Education: Achieve a basic and integral quality education, as well as human formation in families, educational centers and in the communities, boosting programs to promote continuous improvement, inclusion, student consistency and their participation in school activities.
Preventive health: Contribute to improve the public health in vulnerable and disadvantaged groups by preventing the major diseases and promoting a culture of self-care.
Social capital development: Contribute in the construction of the social capital of our communities increasing the civic engagement, Corporate Social Responsibility and the strengthening of the Civic Society Organizations that seek the common welfare, care for public assets and social development.
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Highlight programs 1. Education • “Expanding Children’s Development” model (ADN for Spanish acronym): Is an inclusive educational scheme developed during the after-hours of a school day in the regular school cycle, providing children with quality time with classmates, learning and human development besides the balanced nutrition at lunch time. Currently the Fechac-ADN model is operating in more than 75 schools over the state, 7 of which are in the mountain area for the benefit of 7,200 students. • Construction and restauration of shelter schools in “La Sierra Tarahumara”: To provide optimal learning spaces for children in the communities immerse in the mountain area, we invest in the construction and restauration of shelter schools, giving them access to education in a worthy temporary home, with the benefits of healthy nutrition and proper health care. 2. Preventive health • Water harvesting programs: We promote training programs in “La Sierra Tarahumara” addressing techniques to harvest rain water for the indigenous peoples living in extreme poverty in order to expand knowledge and the precise tools for them to use and face the malnutrition and sanitary issues that their environment implies. • “You and me, promoting sexual health”: Promoting self-care and the responsible decision making in teenagers, we invest in programs that stimulate critical though and reflection in teenagers so they become in the main characters of their own future and build –along their families and teachers- a prosperous, healthy and happy life. 3. Social capital • Integral model of social development: We create and develop a community-based program that potentiates economic growth of communities through workshops for self-employment and strengthening of the family economy in colonies with high rates of poverty; additionally, it encourages civic engagement and self-managing for the improvement of their environment. • Consolidation of the CSR Center in Chihuahua: Hand on hand with the private sector of Chihuahua, Fechac constitutes the Corporate Social Responsibility Center for Sustainable Development "PERSE" to generate value in corporations and society through promotion and strengthening of their corporate social responsibility, contributing in such way to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) established by the UN agenda for 2030.
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Shared Social Responsibility Model
Public Sector
Private Sector
Allies
Social Sector
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Hector Jurado Sanchez President
Marco Antonio Valle Carrera Chairman of the Committee of Resource Mobilization Adrian Aguirre Reyna CEO
We are one of the funding members of the Border Philanthropy Partnership
Fechac has also been a case study in:
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