Women Without Borders

Fondo Semillas is a non-profit organization focused on improving women’s lives in Mexico. We dream of a country where all women, indigenous, mestiza, black, young, migrant, heterosexual, lesbian, mothers, and students alike, can make their own decisions and have access to health services, a decent job, justice, and happiness. To achieve this, Fondo Semillas supports groups and organizations of women. Throughout the past 27 years, Fondo Semillas has directly benefited more than 685 thousand women and 2.5 million more women, girls, boys, and men indirectly. Organized women themselves identify the problems they face and propose solutions. Fondo Semillas provides them with economic resources, capacity building, and coaching, and strengthens their abilities and alliance building. Instead of providing a short-term solution to the conditions of injustice and inequality women face in Mexico, Fondo Semillas works to structurally fight these issues and makes approximately 100 grants each year to groups in different states across Mexico. Chicago Semillas was founded 11 years ago to raise funds to support Fondo Semillas in Mexico. All of our members are intensely committed to the life-changing vision of Fondo Semillas and of its grantees. We believe that the issues challenging indigenous women in Mexico don’t stop at the border. Together, let’s build bridges, not walls.