When i was last here, we had about 100 members, and we are now, 2 years later, at 650 members. Damian wow. Anna yes. Damian and i mean, a lot of Community Events that you organize, youve empowered a lot of women since. Anna yes, and weve supported not only the National Equal Pay campaign, but most recently we supported Latina Equal Pay day, which was on november 2. The reason for that, on average women make about 20 less than men. Latinas, on the other hand, we make 46 less, so were very passionate about closing this wage gap. We worked with over 60 businesses nationwide. Many of them supported us in mountain view, so the chamber of commerce, like to give them a shoutout for supporting us and really bringing awareness to this wage gap among latinas. Damian all right, thats very interesting. And i mean, it takes a lot of work, and yall are doing it. Jenny, how proud are you just of the accomplishments, being one of the cofounders . Jenny salinas tremendously proud. I thinkwe share this
In at the de young. Raquel garcia del real yeah, so this exhibition is really, really unique. Its about over 20 years of collaboration with Mexican Government and el inah, which is the National Institute for anthropology and history. And what we have for you at the museum is over 200 artifacts, many of them recently excavated, new findings, so stuff you have never seen before from this city of teotihuacan, which is a city that is in central mexico and it predates the aztecs. This city was flourishing around the year 400 common era. And we have beautiful murals from them, we have objects made up of obsidian, seashell, jade. And this exhibition is really good cause its really showing you a lot of their culture and a lot of the art that they were producing, but also how teotihuacan was a city. Damian now, ive been to teotihuacan, ive climbed one of theor walked up to one of the pyramids there. Raquel yeah. Damian talk about [speaking in foreign language] talk about how you feel when you e
For kids that need it. And i had an opportunity to actually go to some of these vision screenings, some of these dental screenings, and see children get access to healthcare that they werent able to get at home for different reasons. And when i saw the difference that these exams made in terms of the family getting this information, and maybe realizing that their child wasnt able to really learn forbecause they couldnt see the board, or were having a difficult time eating because their teeth hurt, knowing that this organization was at the forefront of making sure that that did not happen out here in the bay area was enough for me to get involved. Erikas in a much better position to talk about the day to day, but knowing that is why i fell in love with the organization and why ultimately i ended up joining the board. Damian all right, and healthier kids, is that a county agency or its a foundation . Is it just a foundation that helps whoever . Erika its basically we help all santa clara
Things to do at the office, and also we have many, many things to do in this area for the Mexican Community in san jose. Damian there are several topics that wed like to talk about today. One is everybodys talking about daca, and nobody knows at this point whats going to happen to daca. What can you tell us . What can you update us on . Maybe the services that youre providing for someone juan well, its a topic very, very, very important for the Mexican Community, especially for the young people that they have already the daca documents. If they are going to have a renovation, the last in this month in 13 of january. Damian yeah, cause the clock is ticking, time is running out. Juan yes, yes; if you are benefiting for daca, you can renew the papers for daca. If you have some question for this process that the daca needs, please contact with the Mexican Consulate. Were going to have some kind of talleres. Damian workshop. Juan workshop for the mexican people, for the Mexican Community to
Consulate general of peru, the consulate of guatemala, and the consulate of el salvador, we are all joining efforts, along with a lot of different agencies, labor agencies. The goal is to provide information to empower the hispanic workers. This year, the title of the week is know your rights at work the wellinformed worker. Damian i mean, and that topic is not only for the spanishspeaking, the immigrant community. I mean, when you know your labor rights, youre talking about every american or immigrant worker. And we have some video, some examples of some of the workers out there. Now, are the other countries, peru and other countries, joining in because they saw how well its been working for you all and they say, i wanna be a part of it . Jesus yeah, exactly, we are joining efforts because this is not directly, as you say, just to hispanics. Its to the whole community, but the latin american consulates, we are directing our efforts to our community because theres an important sector o