Cooperative Economics For Women

Cooperative Economics for Women organizes low-income immigrant and refugee women of color to address problems they face as they struggle to meet their basic needs. CEW helps low-income women organize in their language communities. We address issues associated with welfare and immigration reform, and integration into U.S. society.

Description:
Poor women today face obstacles to doing what they consider their primary job - caring for themselves, the children and communities. Health care is not affordable, minimum wage provides only half of what it costs live in Boston, and child care is scarce. Women of color and immigrant and refugee women face added institutional and systemic barriers: the extreme narrow-mindedness and prejudice represented by the race federal welfare and immigration reforms, other efforts to deny legal immigrants access to services their to money has purchased, every day racism endemic in the US, lack of access to English as a Second Language Classes, GED and other educational opportunities .

History:
In 1994 the African American, Latina and immigrant/ refugee women who became CEW members were struggling. Punitive welfare reforms, rising costs of living, & race and gender-based discrimination were making their lives unbearable. These women wanted a place that could be their own and would help them understand US society. They wanted to learn how to advocate for their own needs. That organization became Cooperative Economics for Women.

Contact people:

Trina Jackson, Program Director, (phone), (email) Fatou Fatty, Assistant Director, (phone), (email) Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (781) 289-4950

Address:

65 Nahant Street Revere, MA 02151 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.cooperativewomen.org

Directions:

Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Revere Beach Blue Line,   Walk distance (in minutes): 3 For maps or information, please see http://www.mbta.com

Last updated on May 6, 2009