We are builders of a civil, academic, artistic and political social network, where we generate strategies for the integration of Latin American migrants in Belgium.

We carry out previously planned projects as part of the organization’s activities, such as: socio-educational workshops, debates and focus groups on gender violence.

Latin American women are on the move, as a Macrodiaspora with a cultural heritage of resistance.

Macro-diaspora with a cultural heritage of resistance and defense and defense of life, dignity and justice.

Vision

Mission

We seek to improve the dignity and living conditions of Latin American women in Europe, through their emancipation, promoting mutual support with other Latin American diasporas, making visible and supporting inclusion in the diversity of public spheres.

In SIEMPRE we work as a unified network, to empower our voices and make ourselves visible as migrants and bearers of bio-aesthetic and cultural diversity. We seek to weave collective alliances with other women and sisters from diverse backgrounds to give space to their knowledge and empower their participation.

We promote the inclusion of Latin American women and girls by helping them acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for their adaptation and integration.

We believe in their importance for social cohesion in Europe and other continents where Latin American women live. We invite you to build and strengthen the channels of social communication, to access spaces for discussion, to give voice and visibility to the problems we live and our search for solutions.

We as women and in continuity with our ancestors are the protagonists of the struggle to sustain creativity and our role as creators of other utopias.

We assume the term “Latina women” to remember and honor those migrant women who fought and defended the rights of farmworkers in the United States who were so named.

As citizens and as migrants, we disseminate valuable and important information on issues of health (general, mental and reproductive), science, agriculture, environment, history, commerce, economics, justice, peace, art and other areas. We offer gender perspectives, thus contributing not only to Latina women but also to the countries in which we live.

Every day we build a stronger and more committed team to give voice to our Latina migrant women, each one of us forming the union and weaving networks that sustain our struggle.

Graduada en 2022 del Máster Erasmus Mundus en Migración Transnacional de la Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB), la Universidad de Wrocław, Polonia, y la Universidad de Granada, España. Rosa ha desarrollado su carrera profesional tanto en el ámbito de la migración como en el de la igualdad de género, trabajando para ONG locales y de la UE, adoptando un enfoque interseccional para garantizar que se respeten los derechos de las personas migrantes.

Consejera ecuatoriana y comunitaria de Louvain-la-Neuve Ottignie. Enlace y coordinadora interinstitucional de Valonia-Bruselas en proyectos y actividades con perspectiva de género para Siempre.

Cantante, artista mexicana. Enlace y asesora cultural en México y Bélgica.

Mexicano radicado en Bélgica desde 2010, Coordinador y Co-Fundador de Desarrollo de Proyectos Artesanales y Diseño DEPROART AC y SIEMPRE.

Thamara Cruz

Cecilia Torres

Silvia Ávalos

Elia Catalina Barajas

Rosa Dennis

Montserrat Mancilla

Members

Elia Catalina Cruz Barajas

Veronique Daneels

Etna Torres Quirós

Lupita Ramos Amancay Egas

Julia V. Erazo

Gabriela Sepúlveda

Gina Paola Quintan

Ingrid Abanto

Adriana Luna

Plaza Mariana

Karen Curiel Ruiz Velasco

José Luis Durán Calvo

Nathalie Gallardo Schawn

Julia Antonina

Vera Baltazar Medina

Ana Valenzuela

Mónica Wissel

Founders

External Partners

Interns

2018

2019

2020

We conducted a first exploratory study of the challenges and difficulties experienced by Latin American women in Belgium. Problems related to language, health, inclusion, education, discrimination and violence: psychological, economic or physical. We started to build bridges between Latin American women and Belgian projects. The result was a study on the well-being of Latin American women living in Belgium. We accompanied this study in cases of women residents in order to understand their integration process and their problems, as well as possible solutions or alternatives. We organized focus groups, debates with specialists to discuss different topics, such as femicides, the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the CEDAW women’s rights and the invisibility and vulnerability of migrant women. We listened to women’s testimonies through several interviews among Latin American migrant women.

As a grassroots organization, we helped migrant women to understand the functioning of Belgian institutions and social services, especially those focusing on migrants, refugees, women and discrimination. In the permanent and personal communication service, we support and accompany women on their paths in the different regions of Belgium. In the follow-up of the cases to be helped, we consult in network to listen to recommendations.

In collaboration with European and international networks: We strengthened our networks, taking advantage of our presence in Brussels. We joined the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) and the Discrimination and Federatie van Sociaal-Culturele vereningingen van mensen met een migratieachtergrond (FMDO), being part of their board of members and being part of the World Solidarity Forum (WSF). We also expanded our networks and alliances beyond Europe, with special attention to Latin American and diaspora feminist organizations around the world by conducting the first international networking with specialists and leaders from Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and the Latin diaspora based in the United States of America, Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe EnReDHadas, Tejiendo feminismos por el mundo.

We participated in several conferences and presented papers at the Congress on Migration and Mental Health organized in Brussels, the Colloquium Local Communities and Indigenous Research at the ULB and Hands on Sexual Harassment: Has #MeToo redefined the status quo? at the European Commission.

Presentation and writing of recent works to promote Latin American women writers in different parts of Belgium.

Presentations of Latin American women candidates for federal elections and political deputies. Presentations of their plans and agenda in the different political parties and regions of Belgium.

Testimony of journalist Marcia Scantlebury, Chilean political refugee from the dictatorial period and survivor of the 1980s.

International collaboration with the Collective Las Aquelarre Feministas in Mexico: Feminism as a collective and social movements, the experience in Mexico City, course with 8 online sessions.

Presentation of the study Latin American Women and Mental Health in Belgium at the WSF.

Presentation of Latin American women writers from Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile and Argentina at the Bewogen (National Literature Day), at the Voorlezen Week.

Research and exploration project to identify the needs and migration trajectory of Latin American women to Belgium.

Meeting with migrant women and focus group to discuss the migration trajectory and integration experience in Belgium. Precisely in Antwerp

Interviews with essential Latin American women living in Belgium: Mrs. Norma Goicochea – Cuban Ambassador, Mrs. Guadalupe Ramos – Feminist Lawyer, Mrs. Silvia Ábalos – Mexican Artist, Mrs. Ligia Uribe – Human Rights Defender – Colombian, Mrs. Cecilia Torres – Ottignies-LLN-Ecuadorian Counselor.

Presentation at the National Literature Week, InterlitraTour with poetry readings by writers from Belgium, Sudan, Vietnam, Colombia, Mexico and Turkey with traditional Peruvian music.

Conference with Dr. Guadalupe Ramos Ponce, jurist and expert in law and feminicide, as part of International Women’s Day in Brussels.

Participation in the World March with the testimony and participation of victims.

Vision

Mission

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