This Saturday (December 13) My friend Laura’s organization is hosting the first ever tamal festival/contest in San Francisco. I’ll be there around 2/2:30 to get my eats on!

What: Fiesta del Tamal!
When: noon – 5pm
Where: Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street
Why? Support Caminos’ efforts to bridge the digital divide that excludes many Latinas from sustainable high-tech job.

From their website:

“Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, CAMINOS enables low-income, Latina immigrants to create opportunities for self and economic improvement through access to technology. CAMINOS is a non-profit organization dedicated to using technology to improve the lives of Latina immigrants. By enabling unemployed or underemployed Latina, immigrant women move from manual or service labor to office and technology-based work, thus interrupting the cycle of poverty and social isolation affecting Latina immigrant women’s health and wellbeing.

CAMINOS works to ensure that low-income Latina immigrant women in the community can reap the benefits of the information revolution that is fundamentally changing our economic and social structure. Without programs such as ours, poor communities would miss the opportunity to be integrated into the technological era, further exacerbating existing equity problems.

Our programs work together to empower Latina immigrant women to build living-wage careers within the information and technology sector.”

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