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El Puente Community Development Corporation

After years of dealing with the aftermath of NAFTA and the displacement, its trauma and its impact on women and workers, the leadership of La Mujer Obrera decided it was necessary to create a community development corporation that could focus its energies on the issues of women’s development within the context of economic alternatives.

As a result, in 1997 El Puente Community Development Corporation was born. El Puente’s mission is true to its name. It serves as a bridge that facilitates new sources of social, educational and economic opportunity such as enterprise development, bilingual on-the-job training and access to technology and to promote community revitalization through building the capacity of individuals. It bridges the divide between displaced workers, the low-income community that housed the manufacturing industry in El Paso and the global economy that threatened to completely isolate and alienate limited English workers.

El Puente Community Development Corporation weaves together women’s empowerment, social enterprise, and community-building initiatives to improve the economic and social conditions of low-income Mexican immigrant women and their families on the US-Mexico border.

El Puente CDC has worked in conjunction with La Mujer Obrera to establish several social purpose businesses, including Rayito del Sol, Café Mayapan, Diseños Mayapan, and Mercado Mayapan. Through this experience, El Puente CDC will continue to support the development of businesses such as Lum Metik, Centro Mayapan, and Plan Mayachen all of which are crucial to the revitalization of the South Central area which is the former garment district, once home to the jean’s capital of the world and now in dire need of revitalization through a community building process.