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How You Can Get Involved

• Join the Walk by making a contribution of $25 or more.

• Ask your friends to sponsor you with their contribution to CASA.

• Make a donation in support of the Walk and CASA’s anti-violence program.

For more information, contact San Miguel Walk Chair Trish Snyder at TSMAR30@aol.com

San Miguel Walk Against Domestic Violence

The San Miguel Walk is held annually on January 24 to increase awareness of the problem of domestic violence and to raise funds for CASA’s Violence Prevention Program.

CASA supporters join forces with many thousands of pilgrims as they depart the Jardin in Central San Miguel to set out on the centuries old Caminato de San Juan de los Lagos, one of Mexico’s most significant and physically grueling pilgrimages. Walk participants join the pilgrims for seven kilometers of their nine day journey.

Unfortunately violence still stalks Mexican women.

Dr. Aurora Del Rio, Deputy General of Gender Equity for Mexico’s Health Ministry advised at the Oct. 2010 Sexual Assault Conference that:

33% of patients in health clinics waiting rooms report living with violence

13% of Mexican women have been sexually abused as a child.
22% have experienced sexual abuse in their lifetimes.
6% of women have been raped.
5% have been beaten in the abdomen while pregnant.
3% of women who experience violence receive help.

Please support the 2011 San Miguel Walk. 100% of your tax deductible contribution directly provides services to those most in need.

Contact San Miguel Walk Chair Trish Snyder (TSmar30@aol.com).
Phone Number (U.S): 910-515-5058;
Phone number (Mexican): 011 52 (415) 121-0612.
All donations are tax deductible.

2010 Accomplishments:

- Six schools requested the CASA Violence Prevention for Youth that addresses the unfortunate common practice of violence during dating. Thirty five youth leaders were prepared through a 40 hour course and have replicated this course to 239 others.

- CASA’s outreach team identified and referred 45 persons who suffer from violence to the CASA psychologist; 32 of these individuals or 71% received counseling and 98% received legal assistance. Fifty seven percent received home visits.
- The CASA psychologist saw 121 clients in therapy and gave 305 consultations.
- CASA produced and distributed 1,500 how-to manuals to families. The manuals show families, especially women, how to legally protect themselves from violence. CASA outreach staff distributes this important resource throughout rural villages and marginal neighborhood, as well as in churches, schools and during public health fairs.
- The CASA anti-violence education program was conducted in cooperation with 4 churches in rural villages and 95 people are participating.
- 5 women and their families in violent situations have been granted refuge at CASA, some up to 4 months.
- 28 play performances by CASA youth theater team about domestic violence and other issues to 3,338 people.
- Over 40 consecutive weeks, CASA has been on the air with its weekly, live radio program during which experts talk to the 240,000 listenership about violence and other social ills and where to get help.

Step Into History and Change the Lives of Others

Join us in the 8th annual San Miguel Walk Against Domestic Violence

January 24, 2011

We will join forces with many thousands of pilgrims in the centuries old Caminata de San Juan de los Lagos.

The San Miguel Walk is open to all those who donate or raise a minimum of $50 USD.

100% of all donations will go directly to CASA’s domestic violence programs.

Contact Trish Snyder, San Miguel Walk Chair at tsmar30@aol.com for more information.