Casa Gaviota, a WBC ally to empower women

Casa Gaviota is an NGO that was founded in 2012 by María Dolores Blancas and her daughter Samantha Báez in order to create a support network for women who have been or are in a situation of violence, whether family or gender.

 Its main mission is to create safe learning environments for all genders and thus establish relationships of respect, justice and equity.

They offer different services including: Legal advice, Emotional and biological decoding, Feminist therapy, Online therapy, Emotional first aid.

Thanks to the works of WBC Woman, directed by Aranza Hernández and Paulina Vargas, during 2022 an important alliance was established in order to provide help and attention to the boxing family, develop actions to empower women and educate WBC Staff through an awareness workshop.

Today, within the framework of the Commemoration of International Women’s Day, María Dolores Blancas and Samantha Báez attended our Coffee Tuesday to talk about the importance of fighting for an equitable society in terms of rights, opportunities, and respect.

Maria Dolores Blancas 

Thank you all for being here. Thank you to those who are ALL ALWAYS in this transcendental fight for equity, justice, respect and dignity.

I want to recognize the actions that the WBC develops. For opening the way for women and for not ignoring the more than evident problems in our society.

We work for gender equality and respect. More than 90% of women have suffered some type of violence. We want to be equal in rights.

Boxing is a great tool for physical empowerment, and we are here to commemorate March 8, to recognize the efforts of thousands of women, but also to not give up in this important fight for equality and empowerment.

Samantha Báez

 “Our rights are violated in many spaces. There are many women who still do not enjoy basic human rights, even today and it must be our mission to raise our voices for them.

We don’t want to be more, we don’t want to be less. We want equality and equity.

 All the women present here have broken barriers, they have broken paradigms. All of us from our space fight for our women, for our girls.

We are diverse, we are different. Let’s recognize the work we do in our day to day. Thank you all for this light- May it never stop shining!” 

To conclude her participation, María Dolores Blancas urged all attendees not to normalize violence, since the cold, cruel and inhumane data says that in Mexico there are an average of 10 femicides per day… that should outrage us, but above all motivate us to eradiate all of all forms of violence against women and girls.