Santa Santa Martha Akattla on CDMX “they achieve their dreams through sewing

“You have to continue breathing, you have to continue living, so you are trying to train the best possible atmosphere.”

Since 2019, “Make me worthIt is a program The prison system in Mexico City To implement work activities directed to Social reintegration Of men and women deprived of their freedom.

“When you get here, not only lose your rights, but we lose many things. We have to form a kind of life here, a line,” says a prisoner at the Santa Martha Center for Women, ACATITLA.

driver TV photoand Monica NoguraaThe opportunity has to meet one of more than a thousand women participating in these workshops, dedicated to enhancing work training, life habits and freedom to express.

“In the last transfer of me nearly four years ago, from Tepepan to Santa Martha, he entered again, for the adventure in this sewing workshop that is really called Toruroria. We are still doing underwear, which we make it wearing the uniform, which we know, in this case,” We usually ignore what the dead of things, but when we know that they know they go to males. “

Persons deprived of freedom However, they face a feeling of difficult loneliness, thanks to these workshops, they can feel active, project And above all, alive.

“I have two children, two men, but they are already big, I left one month and left him for three years.

In addition, thousands of women must search for some options to follow up SmileSince the stigma of social shame on many occasions transports them not only on its own, but from themselves, “,,”, “Make me worthIt has become an incentive, which also allows them to develop their talents.

“We laughed somehow, because yes, we laugh. We spend a good day, because we have a little difficult days … We are general people, because of the situations that we entered in this place, well, people do not really make us bad.”

AIHC