Super Saturday Program

The Problem

Over the past few years we have learned that it is virtually impossible for families to break free of the cycle of poverty without additional resources.

To change this paradigm, MdC is focusing on building deeper relationship with 90 families. MdC is providing families many different opportunities to improve their situations and they have a responsibility to participate.

Super Saturday was launched in February of 2022 to bring opportunities for families to improve their lives.

These issues can include:

• Health challenges

• Lack of community

• Financial illiteracy

• Missing education

• No fall-back plan in case of emergency
  

Enter, Super Saturday. This is a program designed to meet families where they are, and provides them with support needed to break free from the vicious cycle of poverty.

By working with these families in a more intentional way, we are able to develop deeper relationships with them and better understand their needs. Our goal with this approach is to encourage families to become more holistically engaged and provide them with hope for a better future.

Program Overview

While our program changes dynamically as the needs of our community change, there are our pillars of focus:

• Health & Wellness Seminars

• Kid Specific Health & Dental Education

• Exercise Classes

• Community Connection (through games & food)

• Women’s Project Class

Our women’s program is specifically designed to give them an opportunity to build community with each other and learn skills that will allow them to provide for their families. During this time their children participate in their own program. This allows the women space to grow and learn without having to keep an eye on their kids.

Our women’s work out class is facilitated by Angelica, the winner of our weight loss challenge in 2021.

Our Women’s Work Program was launched at a Super Saturday by a MdC Besito’s community member Aurora who taught embroidery and Aylin (featured on our women’s work program blog) who taught women to make bags. Women continue to make product on demand that is sold in our MdC store, https://mdcaridad.org/store. All sales help women address their economic poverty.

Our Goals

Our goal is to improve the health and welfare of people through targeted programs and community building.

We call it Super Saturday because it hits on the different types of poverty people face: health, economic, and community.

Our programs target and help address each of these specific areas.

Our Exercise Program addresses health poverty, providing women with the knowledge and skills to change the health patterns of themselves and their families.

Our Project Class addresses economic poverty by teaching women to make things that we will buy from them and sell (Women’s Work Program).

Our Game Program addresses community poverty by creating interactive games and opportunities for families to get to know each other. This works to create a resource network for people, and even a fallback system. If someone needs something they know the people that live around them.

Our Educational Program is a seminar series that focuses on topics like: health, wellness, finance and other areas that may arise.

Our Food Program addresses food insecurity by providing healthy groceries we help alleviate burden of food while families are working on other areas of their lives.

At all of our programs we teach respect by encouraging people to show up on time. We teach empowerment by not giving out handouts. We provide opportunities for people to improve their lives. And, we treat people with dignity in everything that we do - they matter.