“Occupational Health Program”
This program, aims to carry out activities that have the objective of reducing the number of illnesses and accidents derived from crafts’ production and promote a healthy lifestyle and working environments.
The request for support to the previously mentioned fund is done in an individual and yearly manner. The amount granted can be as much as $15,000.00 MXN, which the craftsmen/women should use to buy clothes, accessories, and equipment that help improve their physical wellbeing; alternatively, the sum received can be used to offer workshops which promote a preventive health culture.
Raise the standard of living of all those artisans and women who find themselves below the poverty line, and indigenous groups as well.
The Fund invested $167,799,302.30 MXN from 2012 to 2015.
In 2014-2015, 48,099 artisans were supported.