Mex Y Can Association of Manitoba, Ensuring the Voice of Winnipeg's Mexican Community Is Heard

Winnipeg is characterized by the diversity of the communities that reside in it. However, it can be challenging for your voice to be heard. Therefore, each community seeks to have an organization that facilitates life and organizes events throughout the year to preserve its cultural identity and local language. 

The Mex Y Can Association of Manitoba is the voice of the Mexican community in Winnipeg, which seeks to empower the Mexican community and provide them with all the information that makes their settlement and integration faster in Winnipeg. 

This episode of "Civic Platform" features Aline Tezcucano, President of the Mex Y Can Association of Manitoba Inc. Tezcucano spoke about the establishment of the Society and its role in building a strong Mexican society intellectually, culturally, and psychologically. 

Tezcucano also talked about the importance of the family, which is considered the basis for raising children in a diverse city like Winnipeg, and that the responsibility lies with parents first in teaching their children Mexican culture, language, and even folk clothes and dances.  

Tezcucano stressed the need to volunteer and be patient to achieve the goals in Winnipeg. Especially for newcomers, everything is new and different. So, to learn something new, you must have determination and patience, and everything later will be good. 

Journalist Zuher Almusre spoke with several members of the Mexican community who stressed the need to gather and build relationships to be a robust, stable, and happy community in Winnipeg. 

 Contact Zuher Almusre, our civic journalist, to share your story and explore civic issues at zuheralmusre@u-channel.ca.  

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