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Support ATCF's 2024 School Supplies Drive
ATCFs 2024 Annual School Supplies Drive is here!

In celebration of our 25 years of coalition work with the Comite Fronterizo de Obrer@s (the CFO), we are proud to launch our 2024 School Supplies Drive to support the school children of maquiladora workers!

Due to exploitative wages and working conditions at the maquiladoras (foreign-owned sweatshops), as well as public schools in Mexico increasingly shifting the burden of school supplies to parents, working parents rarely have enough money to cover the extensive list of required school items.

Last year WE SUCCEEDED in raising $3,253, supporting young students, and our support has been requested once again by frontline organizers on Mexico’s northern border. Help us make this 10th year the most impactful one yet.

About our partner: The CFO has fought for worker rights, gender justice, and transnational corporate accountability along the Texas-Mexico border for decades. ATCF is honored to have been in close partnership with them since 1999!

Join us in solidarity with working families and organizers on the frontlines by:

1) Donating via GoFundMe or

2) Dropping off school supplies in person!

If you have any questions, please contact us via GoFundMe.

We sincerely appreciate your support and anticipated contribution.
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Austin Tan Cerca De La Frontera is fundraising
ATCF 2023 School Supplies Project
ATCF is excited to announce the launch of our Summer 2023 School Supply Drive! Our drive is dedicated to supporting the children of members of the Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFO) to continue their education and expand opportunities.

In transnational solidarity since 1999, ATCF has maintained close relationships with our Mexican border partner, the CFO. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing struggles for border communities, the CFO has stepped up to meet their maquiladora workers' immediate needs. They also expanded union and gender rights organizing in the workplace!

Once again this year, the frontline organizers of the CFO have requested support for their school children.

Goal of this drive: to provide essential school supplies to the children of maquiladora workers. These supplies will be transported to Piedras Negras, MX, in August, ensuring that these young individuals have the necessary tools to pursue their education.

Do you want to donate supplies? Check out our list and contact us to arrange drop-off by August 3!

https://sites.google.com/atcf.org/atcfschooldrive2023/home

We sincerely appreciate your anticipated contribution. Your support holds immense value to our CFO partners and ourselves. Together, let us forge a more just and equitable world.

If you have any questions, please contact us via GoFundMe.
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Austin Tan Cerca De La Frontera is fundraising
School Supplies Drive and Border Talks Workshop
Help the CFO organize, provide school supplies for their children, office supplies for their expanding work, and visit us for a Labor Day event with a solidarity action in Austin!

In transnational solidarity since 1999, ATCF has maintained close relationships with our Mexican border partners in the Comité Fronterizo de Obreros y Obreras (CFO). The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting border closings created challenges, but the CFO stepped up to meet their maquiladora workers' immediate pandemic needs. They also expanded union and gender rights organizing in the workplace!

Recently, these front-line organizers of maquiladora workers asked for our support.

Help us reinvigorate our transnational solidarity with our border partners by donating. Funds will go to the following projects:

SCHOOL SUPPLIES for the children of maquiladora workers! Supplies will be taken to Piedras Negras, MX this August.

ORGANIZING SUPPLIES for CFO’s community and labor organizing with maquiladora workers in Piedras Negras, Torreon, and Ciudad Acuña! The CFO will open a new office soon in Torreon. They need technology and office equipment to do so.

TRAVEL EXPENSES! We are excited to announce that CFO organizers plan to visit Austin in September! We need donations to help fund their travel, pay for travel documents such as visas, and cover other necessary expenses. In Austin, the CFO will share their labor organizing strategies and campaigns as well as solidarity actions that we in the U.S. can take!

Any donation will help make an impact.

Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause. It means so much to our CFO partners and us!

Do you want to donate supplies? Check out our list and contact us to arrange drop-off by August 3!

School Supplies Requested:

15 coloring books

220 Pencils

115 Pencil sharpeners

115 Erasers

60 Crayon Boxes

15 JUMBO Crayons Box

50 Boxes of Markers

50 Bookmarks

180 Blue Pens

180 Black Pens

180 Red Pens

35 Glue sticks

85 Liquid glue

5 Play Doh (Plasticine)

90 Scissors

40 Rulers

48 Geometry Game Sets (3D manipulatives)

Office Supplies Requested:

Coffeemaker

Filing Cabinet

Computer Speakers

Office Chairs

Computer Camera

Canopy (pop-up)

Small AC unit

Water Dispenser

Small refrigerator

Five portable computers or laptops

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About Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera

ATCF raises awareness about conditions of social and economic injustice along the Texas/Mexico border particularly as they affect displaced and disenfranchised communities and supports community-driven resistance to injustice through transnational solidarity and fair trade. We believe that our environment, our communities and human dignity are sacred and must be respected in the movement for social justice.

3707 East MLK Blvd.Austin, TX 78721

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Causes

Latino and Hispanic studies, Community and economic development, Arts and culture, Economic justice, Women's rights

Established

2011

Tax ID

27-2849415

NTEE code

International Development, Relief Services

Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 27-2849415. Donations are tax-deductible. Select content is provided by GuideStar.

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