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Pro Mujer is honored to stand with women and girls to commemorate this year’s International Day of the Girl Child 2021 and drive digital transformation through programs across Latin America. Although the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital platforms all over the world, it also highlighted a significant digital divide – approximately 250 billion…

More than 115 Pro Mujer community health workers offer health screenings for attendees at mass COVID-19 vaccination sites. To help support the well-being of people in Bolivia, Pro Mujer’s community health workers are offering health screenings at local COVID-19 vaccination sites, including weight and height measurements, body mass index (BMI) calculation, diabetes risk tests, blood…

This is the story of Karla González, a Mexican entrepreneur and Pro Mujer client who used her entrepreneurial skills to accomplish her dreams and support both herself and her community. When she was 15 years old, Karla had to drop out of school and look for work to help support her family, eventually getting a…

Pro Mujer and Mamotest join forces to provide access to affordable, rapid response mammograms to support early detection.   Pro Mujer and Mamotest, the first health femtech in Latin America, recently joined forces to provide mammograms to more than 3,000 women in Jujuy, a province in Argentina’s remote northwest. Both Pro Mujer and Mamotest use…

The COVID-19 pandemic has created countless challenges for women in Nicaragua, as many have lost their jobs or found themselves forced to close their businesses. At the same time, Pro Mujer has also struggled to continue to provide financial, capacity building, and healthcare services to our clients while protecting both our benefiacieries’ and our staff’s health and wellbeing.  To address this issue, we accelerated the digital transformation of many of…