Every December 1st, World AIDS Day, CASA's teams of adolescent promoters staff informational tables in the center of San Miguel and other cities in the State of Guanajuato, providing information about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, free family planning consultations and methods, and spreading the word about CASA's many services, including our maternity hospital, daycare center, and community center.
CASA's Básicos Promoters present topics ranging from sexual education to environmental issues - making presentations in schools, community centers, public squares, stores, and private houses. Their work has become CASA's most recognized service over 25 years of unwavering service.
The CASA Maternity Hospital, run by a cooperative of midwives, has provided its services on a sliding scale for its largely working class, rural clients, since its opening in 1994. In addition to serving the greater community, the CASA hospital is also the training center for our student-midwives, studying at CASA's (and Mexico's first and only) government-accredited school of professional midwifery.
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Get Involved with CASAHelping CASA Grow Through Giving and Volunteering
Another way to get involved with CASA is to volunteer. CASA offers three different volunteer programs: an international internship for students and recent graduates; the professional volunteer program for professionals and professionals in training, specifically medical students and certified nurses, doctors, and midwives; and finally, CASA welcomes local volunteers from the San Miguel area. For more information on volunteering: click here.
>> Help CASA in Your Own Way
Friends of CASA are always welcome to help in whatever way they can. Whether by hosting an awareness- and fund-raising party for CASA in your hometown or city, developing collaborative projects between CASA and other organizations, or participating on one of the advisory boards which CASA has in Mexico, the USA, and Canada -- we would love your involvement. Contact the current CASA interns or CASA's founder, Nadine Goodman, for more information.
Over the years, CASA has moved from a small operation run out of a kitchen into a beautiful colonial facility in the Santa Julia neighborhood of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. In the process, CASA has built an event center that hosts weddings, conferences, and parties; a large panoramic terrace with a beautiful view of historic San Miguel; and maintains a few furnished properties in downtown San Miguel. As a non-profit, CASA rents these spaces to individuals and treats all the proceeds as donations. Help CASA by renting out CASA space.
Join hundreds of anti-violence activists as they march every year in support of women, and a future free of domestic violence. All the money raised by the walkers goes towards CASA's violence prevention program. Help by becoming a sponsor or walking yourself.
CASA has 100s of volunteers as well as a paid staff of over 90 individuals, who at CASA are receiving a unique opportunity to develop professionally through CASA's comprehensive scholarship program dedicated to the continuing education of its employees. The staff, many of whom have struggled with the same problems they aim to prevent, serve well over 50,000 clients every year, providing them everything from family planning consultations and methods to a sliding-scale affordable hospital staffed and run by a cooperative of midwives - trained in our own (and Mexico's first and only) accredited School for Professional Midwifery. With all that it does, CASA not only needs donations to grow; it needs donations to continue the work people depand on it for. Help us by sponsoring a particular program or individual, or supporting us through a general donation.
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