FEPOMUVES
In the early 1980s Maria Elena Moyano played a key role in setting up the 'Federacion Popular de Mujeres de Villa El Salvador' ( FEPOMUVES), Popular Federation of Women of Villa El Salvador, created in 1983, whose mandate included "reappraising the role of women, training, promoting and valuing ourselves".
As a response to poverty and unemployment the women of FEPOMUVES set up neighbourhood canteens.
"First we get organized, pooling resources so that we have enough to feed our children, but we then take up the challenge of solidarity. So we began identifying with our neighbour’s problems".
By 1987, FEPOMUVES was managing the Glass of Milk Program in the district.
Women's Human Rights (Amnesty International): http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR460031997
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