We are currently sitting in the Charlottle Airport in North Carolina on our heafty layover. We wanted to reflect on our experiences from yesterday at Enterprising Latinas and the Magic Mirror experience.
Enterprising Latinas is a nonprofit organization, started in 2009, to service the women on Wimauma, a small town that is the home to many farm workers. The goal of Enterprising Latinas to to give the women in the town the opportunities that are often lacking or the avenues they need in order to achieve their goals. The organization offers so many differnt services, from a citizenship class to prep for the citizenship exam to enterprenueship classes to help women start their own business to english classes to help the women learn english. The stark difference between the retirement communities and suburban development and the small town of Wimauma shows the divide in priviledge and oppportunity in the area. Around 49.8% of the women in Wimauma are living in poverty compared to the percentage in the teens in the Sun City Center area that is not even five minutes away. One point that was stressed repeatedly by the center is the focus the cyclic nature of poverty.
"Poverty breeds exploitation"
When someone is so desperate for the neccessities in life and have such limited avenues for opportunity, they are so volunerable to be taken advantage of. It is seen so often on the farms in the area. The workers are often not paid liveable wages or given safe homes to live in. The people have been placed into this poverty cycle that will continue to go around until it is broken. Enterprising Latinas helps to break that cycle and gives people the opportunities needed to move away from such exploitation.
The nonprofit is continuing to grow and has so many goals for the future. They are so inspiring with their work ethic and goals for the future. I hope they will have success in their future and continue to give Wimauma amazing support.
After our amazing experience with Enterprising Latinas, we had Katie and Katherine come and had our touching Magic Mirror experience. The goal of the Magic Mirror project is to identify our inner critic and allow our true selves come forth. The experience was very eye opening to many of us and allowed us to reflect on ourselves and our lives. We are so grateful for Katie and Katherine to come and give us this experience we can take thoughout our lives and be so supportive during the entire project.
This whole week has been so amazing and has allowed our group to come together and form such a bond. The Magic Mirror project was the best way to end the week and give us that space to reflect and think about the altering experiences of the week.
Signing off!
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