Social Health

Integral Model of Social Health

Each inhabitant, each person of Tequila, is welcome to go to the Beckmann Foundation to reach for support, we are here to serve and guide. Our actions focus mainly on those members of the community in the most vulnerable situations or with the most sensitive cases.

We want to restore the community by integrating all those who do not have opportunities or who have had disadvantages, either because of their gender, their age, or any condition that represents a risk factor, such as children, older adults or women. We seek equity in society and stability in family systems and on these fundamental principles we are generating a change in Tequila.

Health is for everyone

This is one of the strategic lines that has evolved in 2019 to offer a better service to the Tequila population. The well-being of the community is a priority, in all meanings of this expression, which has motivated us to seek new routes, new support mechanisms, new approaches.

Today, we emphasize the issue of health as it is an essential part of the quality of life to which we aspire for the community. We not only ensure physical well-being, but also social integration and awareness of the environment and environmental issues we face.

We seek to have a greater scope and impact by carrying out health campaigns, with initiatives that return peace and hope to the low-income community, respecting the dignity of the people.

Alliances are the best way we have found to provide support to the community of Tequila. We seek to weave support networks not only with the community itself, but with the main institutions and organizations on the subject of health

Red Cross

We are deeply grateful to the Red Cross that has supported us with medical advice, with specialists and with unconditional support for our campaigns. It is a sum of efforts that directly benefits the population.

Civil Hospitals

Similarly, we have had the Guadalajara Civil Hospitals, through the social work area, where special cases of the inhabitants of Tequila are evaluated and channeled, joining our resources to complement the services that are required.

Autonomous University of Guadalajara (Uag)

We have the participation of UAG medical students as invaluable support in caring for the population during the health campaigns held in Tequila twice a year. These initiatives are carried out with the purpose of bringing health services closer to the most vulnerable population, in which they receive information and treatments for various health conditions.

Liaison Offices

Over the years we have consolidated institutional relationships that are essential to meet the needs of the population, which has led us to establish official cooperation agreements that allow us to unify efforts to prevent and correct risk situations.

Through the alliance with the Beckman Foundation, these institutions currently have a physical office and representatives in Tequila, that allows personalized and immediate attention for all those who are in a critical situation or require professional follow-up.

Support Unit for Women

One of the liaison offices installed installed in Tequila through the Beckmann Foundation is the Support Unit for Women (UAM), we mainly attend cases of domestic violence in which we guide, through psychological, legal and social work care, those women who come looking for help and who have placed their trust in us.

Vida y Familia A.C. (Vifac)

Teen pregnancy cases are a concern for the community, especially those mothers who do not have a support network to cope in critical conditions. Through the program of this office, counseling and psychological and medical support are provided to women, and they are supported with training, so that they can have a trade that allows them to work and have an economic income to support their baby.

National Association of Personal Development (ANSPAC)

It is an association of women, originated in Monterrey, with the purpose of promoting and reinforcing family values and human development. In Tequila, there is also a group of women from the different neighborhoods, who prepare and replicate their training with their neighbors and offer talks with the intention of positively impacting the entire family nucleus and therefore generating social change.

Vulnerable population

At Fundación Beckmann we make an additional effort for all those Tequila residents who are exposed to exclusion, poverty, inequality or violence.

Through this support program we watch over and work to reincorporate them to the growth of the community or protect them from the risk situations in which they find themselves, mainly children, elders, women or people with disabilities; but we are also here to support all those Tequilenses who need accompaniment, a helping hand or a new opportunity.

Caring for our community

The emerging supports initiative initiative is focused primarily on medical needs, some of them critical. We study each case that comes to us, we apply a socioeconomic study and we analyze the help that is required in collaboration with specialists.

The benefits offered range from medical consultations and the application of vaccines, to economic and in-kind donations. Additionally, we provide advice, seek alternatives through the Foundation's alliances and accompany people in the process, especially those who do not have a family support network.

Medical Emerging Supports

Health Campaigns

Again working hand in hand, to make a difference in the life of the population, within the framework of the health weeks: "Health for all", We have the support of different institutions without which these actions would not be possible: Fundación Tía, Hospital Mi Gran Esperanza, students and teachers from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Tequila City Council, optical Iris, Municipal Medical Services, Health Sector, and DIF Tequila.

The services provided within the conference were: general medicine, ophthalmology, nutrition, psychology, physical rehabilitation, dentistry, gynecology and pediatrics, which were being offered at a time of 9:00 a.m. at 7:00 pm, serving the most vulnerable population in the municipal seat, which has 42,000 inhabitants, the majority being people who do not have access to other types of medical services.

Thanks to the Tía Foundation, training was also carried out for health promoters from different communities in the Sierra de Tequila.

In addition, talks were held on nutrition issues for the Tequila communities.

Preserving Memory

The nursing home “Agustín Velázquez Medina A.C.” It is a space focused on the care and attention of older Tequila adults who do not have a support network.

The main objective is their physical and mental well-being, offering them a respectful environment where they can feel safe together with other older adults and the specialized personnel that take care of them. Our priority is to offer them a better quality of life, helping them maintain emotional stability, attend to their physical and social health, in a family environment that they can feel like their home.

Sponsor a child and adopt an elder

In an effort to bring a little Christmas joy to our children and the elderly in neediest conditions, each year we invite employees, friends and providers of the Beckmann Foundation, to join the initiative to sponsor a child and adopt a grandfather with a gift.

The response of this call is always positive and the great result is the smiles of all the beneficiaries when they receive toys or, in the case of the elderly, what they asked for through a letter.

Strengthening the social fabric

The reality that we face day by day in Tequila requires us to analyze the problems that have arisen, their causes and offer possible solutions. We have a responsibility to rethink how we are building our society so that we can focus on root needs.

The breakdown of family and community structures compel us to focus on restoring personal and social capacities, to recognize the values that are weakening, such as solidarity or the protection of basic rights, in order to strengthen them.

This program has the purpose of protecting the population groups that require care and attention because they are in a vulnerable condition, such as children, adolescents, women, and older adults.

Tribute to the Golden Years

As every year, a tribute was held held to the elderly of the Tequila community. On this occasion it was celebrated with a great Mexican popular festival, which made them transport to their youth, to enjoy the night between memories and magic, with the presentation of the Crooners Duet.

It was a very special night in which we honored three members of our community who fill us with pride. Mr. Gilberto Vargas Mendoza, for his legacy as a bartender in Tequila; Mrs. Venancia Herrera, for her gastronomic contribution to all Tequilenses; and to Mr. Jorge Rivera Gándara, for his beautiful contribution of poetry, songs and literature.

Commemoration of International Women's Day

In 1975 the United Nations Organization formalized International Women's Day throughout the world, to commemorate the fight of women for equality, the recognition and effective exercise of their rights.

In 2019, our initiative to highlight this important date was the screening of the film Mona Lisa Smile, accompanied by a motivational talk with coffee on the topic What is your smile? open to all Tequila women who would like to participate.

Mantaining traditions: homage to the Dancers of the Holy Cross

On the 3rd of May in Tequila, Jalisco, , the Holy Cross is celebrated. It is a very special day for being a tradition considered intangible heritage of humanity, inherited by generations in different neighborhoods.

For several days, devout contingents are integrated, who founded their dances and organized sones to honor such an important religious symbol. This is how tradition is revived year after year, a latent history between sounds and colors that allows Tequila's life to come alive with its roots.

Fundación Beckmann has joined for 5 decades, to help keep the tradition of Tequila families alive. In 2019 we held a photographic exhibition as a tribute to these men and women who keep a tradition alive, which is born to stay.

Support ecosystems

According to the most recent communication from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), "Ecosystem services are the multitude of benefits that nature provides to society. Biodiversity is the diversity among living organisms, which is essential to ecosystems function and services delivery".

At Beckmann Foundation we closely follow the trends set by international environmental organizations and work to raise awareness about the importance of their care among the residents of Tequila.

This program is a response of our aim to align ourselves with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, creating initiatives to transmit that immediate action is essential for the protection of our natural resources and therefore, of our heritage.

In 2019 the Green Schools reforestation campaign was implemented, creating a better world within the schools of the Tequila community and in some Jose Cuervo facilities.

The objective of this initiative is to raise awareness and sensitize the community about the importance of caring for the environment, to minimize the effects of climate change caused by deforestation and pollution. In order to fulfill all these actions we have the support of the Atizcoa Nursery, which preserves and cares for the endemic species of the Tequila region.