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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Each week, a radical of Latinas instrumentality clip to conscionable up astatine antithetic locations passim Fresno to connection enactment to 1 another, stock resources, and sermon achy shared experiences.
Mujeres Poderosas Amorosas, oregon Powerful Loving Women, is simply a radical wherever women similar Carmela Flores person recovered ways to heal and flooded portion sharing immoderate of their astir intimate moments successful a harmless space.
"I'm sorry. It truly gets me," Flores said.
"I truly don't privation different women to spell done the aforesaid thing. I retrieve my dada saying, you request to spell backmost to that idiosyncratic who was hurting me, astir killed you, and I said, no, I recognize our culture, but that doesn't mean that I request to die."
Mujeres Poderosas Amorosas is a task of Cultiva la Salud. The task is made up of a web of Latina immigrants to beforehand the prevention of home unit done fiscal and affectional support.
Flores archetypal joined successful 2020 and says groups similar these play a captious relation successful helping women consciousness harmless and empowered.
According to the CDC, 1 successful 3 Latinas volition acquisition intimate spouse unit successful her lifetime.
Mujeres Poderosas Amorosas works to forestall that fig from rising by providing resources to mental wellness services, English classes, and kid care. They bash truthful portion besides helping the women go financially autarkic done grants and classes.
Aura Gonzalez, Communication Manager for Cultiva La Salud says the further resources are conscionable arsenic integral to healing arsenic everything outreach.
“To interruption the rhythm of violence, you request to go financially independent," Gonzalez said. "But to person a unafraid spot wherever you tin live, right? And sometimes it's not truthful casual to find affordable lodging present successful Fresno County. So we assistance them to navigate that.”
The meetings are a harmless space, wherever the women get to stock stories of perseverance and strength, breaking generational cycles of maltreatment for themselves and their children.
For these women who person present been attending for a fewer years, gathering caller members gives them purpose.
"Please come, and cognize much astir however to spot it. Also somewhat also, due to the fact that present is simply a harmless abstraction wherever you tin consciousness secure, and you tin stock your communicative without immoderate benignant of judgment. And delight springiness yourself that opportunity. I cognize you're going to consciousness tense astatine the beginning, but I committedness that you're going to consciousness invited and you're going to heal," said Maria Flores, a subordinate of Mujeres Poderosas Amorosas.
Anyone seeking that enactment for themselves tin articulation Mujeres Poderosas Amorosas by reaching retired via Facebook oregon by calling 559-498-0870.
