Conexion Migrante

Conexión Migrante is an independent digital native media and an organization that offers services and information to Mexican and Latino migrants living in the United States, to migrants who cross or stay in Mexico and to their families in their places of origin. We were born on November 8, 2016 with the objective of being a bridge of contact between countries and support so that the participation of migrants is more efficient and transparent in their states and communities. We are a group of journalists and specialists in different subjects such as migration, diplomacy, human rights, hearings, technology, photography, video and communication services, who are convinced that information is the most powerful tool to defend the rights of migrants. We want to help migrants in processes as simple as obtaining an identification, and as complicated as a deportation. We do journalism of services and solutions, we offer informative tools and personalized advice to migrants who need it. We have great power to send messages to the Mexican migrant community in the United States and to migrants in Mexico. Something unique about Conexión Migrante is that we have a Migrant Assistance Center (CAM) that receives between 700 and 1,000 messages, telephone calls and emails every month, with the feelings, doubts and needs of a growing community, which are answered in their entirety. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Since October 2024, Patricia Mercado Sánchez, founder and director and Conexión Migrante as a medium are part of the Hola Accelerator cohort, from Ashoka and the IKEA Foundation, which aims to bring together social entrepreneurs and key actors in the migratory ecosystem to address systemic challenges related to the socioeconomic inclusion of migrants in Europe and Latin America. In 2024, we won an honorable mention in the 2024 Gabo Foundation Roche Health Award, coverage category, with the report Migrant women: bodies without rights. In November 2022, we won first place in the Gabo Foundation Roche Health Award, in the Digital Journalism category, with a report on how Mexican and Latin communities faced the Covid 19 pandemic, titled Migrant Networks in the Pandemic.In March 2021 we received the World Summit Awards 2020 award, for digital development in the area of ​​Inclusion and Empowerment. The WSA 2020 judges chose Conexión Migrante from a group of more than 340 organizations from more than 70 countries around the world. We were one of the 40 solutions chosen by the WSA 2020 jury for contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In September 2021, Conexión Migrante became one of the 10 winners of the GNI Startups Lab Hispanoamérica. In 2019, Conexión Migrante received two awards and grants for its expansion. The Membership Puzzle Project provided him with mentoring and funding to expand his Migrant Assistance Center and create a free membership system that seeks to strengthen the relationship with migrants, called Amigos de Conexión Migrante. Additionally, through SembraMedia in 2019 we were winners of Sembratec, a program that granted us technological support and financing to develop WikiMigrante, a great search engine for procedures, processes and advice for the community, which is part of our membership.