Key activities in NI EN MORE

• Collaboration between local and international artists, fashion designers, experts in hand sewing/embroidery and activists, making a unique line of textiles that raise awareness for the fight against abuse of women. 

• Our main goal is to create a textile learning center that will teach sewing and natural dye skills and offer jobs to women living in vulnerable conditions. In a safe and supportive environment our program shall create confidence and skills that contribute to long term financial independence. 

• Through an eco- color technique, using vegetables, local plants and withered flowers, we create unique garments that are sold nationally and internationally in stores and online. Visit at www.nienmoreshop.com

• Each garment has a hand woven protest badge attached. They are woven in global workshops, discussing economic independence and empowerment of women. Each badge can travel through several hands before it’s finished and attached to a garment. 

• All profits are reinvested in the sewing studio and the workers' communities.

• In 2020 we started to expand and established a second sewing workshop in collaboration with the indigenous Raramuri community. In 2022 we grew again and began collaborating with the local organization APPNES to establish a dye-and sewing studio in another rural area of Juarez. Creating jobs in the colonies where the women lives is important to improve living conditions for the whole family, and particularly the children. Children are usually left alone in the rural areas due to the parent’s long distance travel to work and long working hours.

Why Ciudad Juárez

Juarez is known for the systematic murders of women. The victims come from all levels of society, but the majority are women who live in contexts of vulnerability due to their socio-economic condition, race and origin. These women and their families are not victimized, but hard-working people; resisting and supporting each other in the fight for a change. 

NI EN MORE cannot alleviate the systemic social problems and violence, but we can create better conditions for development and change. We believe that economic independence of women is the first step to give us freedom in decision-making and hereby help us face challenges of abuse and violence.

See NI EN MORE website for more information: www.nienmore.com 

Support

The project is supported by the local Government in Chihuahua, Mexico, (2019–2022) // Ford Foundation and NALAC grant, USA (2020) // US Council, Mexico (2020) // Crowd funding (2017, 2018, 2019) // private donations and thousands of volunteered hours by the founders and supporters.