The State of Oaxaca has high rates of poverty and they are due to the low income generated by households and the inequity in their distribution. The entity also presents considerable lags in all dimensions in measuring multidimensional poverty and highlights the percentage of people with food deprivation.

In the analysis carried out by the World Bank on poverty in the State of Oaxaca, it states that persistent poverty is due to the fact that the population with fewer resources does not have the conditions to develop their income-generating capacities, including human capital and capital. physical to invest in the development of economic activity and that, furthermore, the environmental conditions do not generate productive opportunities for the use of existing capacities. From this derives the proposal to redirect efforts towards investments in skills and opportunities in the poorest areas.

Fundación Ávila Cruz AC, acts to reduce the deficiencies with greater dimension in multidimensional poverty, increase cognitive capacities and generate sustainable changes in the vulnerable population by age, sex or with any disability in a situation of extreme poverty inhabited by indigenous, Afro-Mexican and / or urban areas with a high and medium level of social backwardness.

Fundación Ávila Cruz AC, intervenes with its own model of theory of change and focuses on the strategy of: Human Development (food and nutritional security; health and well-being; and culture for sustainable development).

Fundación Ávila Cruz AC, works with four transversal axes:

Gender and human rights approach: Foster the inclusive participation of women in decision-making and in project planning and implementation, as well as empowering them to see themselves as agents of their own change.

Education approach: Ensure the increase of cognitive capacities for their development, as well as strengthen those existing in the community and ensure inclusive participatory processes that allow the participation of the beneficiary communities in all stages of development.

Intercultural approach: Encourage coexistence between people of different cultures through a view focused on the person as the protagonist and holder of rights.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Encourage individual and community changes using participatory, organizational and healthy approaches and generate technological use through sustainable strategic programs and projects:

• Medical technology saves lives, improves health and contributes to sustainable healthcare to reduce hospital stays.
• Disease prevention to avoid the development or progress of chronic degenerative diseases.
• The promotion of health to generate changes in attitudes and lifestyles.
• Early detection of overweight and obesity to generate changes in attitudes and improve quality of life.
• Medical care days to detect and care for people with diabetes and ensure the effective exercise of the right to health.
• Medicines for the treatment of people with diabetes mellitus.
• Hearing health sessions to guarantee hearing services and improve hearing, communication and social integration.
• Oral health sessions to guarantee dental services and improve oral health.
• Application of processes, methods and techniques consistent with the needs of the community, in its purpose of seeking proposals for the collection of rainwater, water sanitation and its efficient use.
• Execution of ecotechnologies to improve the microbiological quality of water and the sustainable use of water.