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Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels

Help Mexico's youth CLIMB beyond drugs, gangs, and drug cartels and on to a more promising future.

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Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels

Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels

Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels

Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels

Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels

Help Mexico's youth CLIMB beyond drugs, gangs, and drug cartels and on to a more promising future.

Help Mexico's youth CLIMB beyond drugs, gangs, and drug cartels and on to a more promising future.

Help Mexico's youth CLIMB beyond drugs, gangs, and drug cartels and on to a more promising future.

Help Mexico's youth CLIMB beyond drugs, gangs, and drug cartels and on to a more promising future.

Rory Smith
Rory Smith
Rory Smith
Rory Smith
1 Campaign |
Monterrey, Mexico
$16,616 USD 226 backers
55% of $30,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." - Howard Zinn


Who are we?

We are Escalando Fronteras, horizontal organization of social activists, academics, entrepreneurs, and climbers from all walks of life that are using rock-climbing to empower and build the skills of at-risk youth in underdeveloped areas around the world. 

We are currently working in Monterrey, Mexico using climbing to give youth in danger of becoming involved in gangs and drug cartels the skills to instead become leaders and agents of positive change.

Boosted by the positive results from our pilot-project, where we worked with 50 youth from one of Monterrey's most marginalized neighborhoods, Lomas Modelo, we now aim, with your help, to create a youth climbing center where 1000 of Monterrey’s most at-risk youth will have access to climbing, mentors, tutors, and job training. 


Impact

Imagine never having been told ‘You can do it. You can do whatever you want’ or ‘I am so proud of you’ by your parents, family, or anyone you respect. This is the reality of these kids. They live in areas where broken families, domestic violence, early school dropout, teenage pregnancy, gangs, drug cartels, and hopelessness are the norm. No one has ever valued them or said, ‘you can be somebody.’ Many of these youth are coerced into working for the drug cartels because they see no other way of escaping their poverty. However, through climbing they have learned that they can do what they thought impossible. They have found value in themselves and they now see a future full of promise instead of hopelessness.

Because of your help, you are giving 1000 at-risk youth a space to develop and become positive sources of change in society and for all those around them.


Why Climbing? 

Climbing has an immense capacity to remediate the negative values, low-levels of self-esteem and confidence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and hopelessness that abounds in the vulnerable neighborhoods of Monterrey. 


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Risks

There are always inherent risks when working in vulnerable areas where organized crime is present. However, our team has lots of experience working in similar areas across the globe and our contacts with local leaders and the people from these neighborhoods is an added insurance policy. Moreover it is our goal, mission, and passion to work in those areas where no other organizations or government agencies are present. If we are not there, no one is. 

Other ways to help

Can't donate? Don't worry, you can still be a huge help. By SHARING our Indiegogo page and Liking Escalando Fronteras  Facebook you are doing a lot to move this project forward. 

¿Quiénes somos?

Somos Escalando Fronteras, una organización horizontal que se conforma de activistas, académicos, empresarios, escaladores y personas de diferentes ámbitos que utilizamos la escalada en roca para empoderar  y desarrollar las habilidades de niños y jóvenes de áreas subdesarrolladas alrededor del mundo.

Actualmente estamos trabajando en Monterrey, México, utilizando la escalada para que los jóvenes que están en riesgo de involucrarse en alguna pandilla o grupo del crimen organizado, desarrollen las habilidades necesarias para convertirse en líderes y agentes de cambio positivo en sus comunidades.

Impulsados por los resultados positivos de nuestro proyecto-piloto, en el que trabajamos con 50 jóvenes de una de las zonas más marginalizadas de Monterrey, la colonia Lomas Modelo, ahora nuestro objetivo es, con tu ayuda, construir un centro de escalada donde alrededor de 1000 jóvenes en riesgo, tendrán acceso a escalda, mentores, tutores, así como capacitación laboral.

Impacto

Imagina nunca haber “Tú puedes. Tú puedes hacer lo que te propongas” o “Estoy muy orgulloso de ti”, ni de tus padres, familia, ni nadie a quien respetes. Esa es la realidad para estos niños y jóvenes. Viven en áreas donde la violencia domestica, la desintegración familiar, la deserción escolar temprana, el embarazo adolescente, las pandillas, las drogas, la presencia de crimen organizado y la desesperanza son la norma. Nunca nadie los ha valorado nunca, ni les han dicho “puedes ser alguien”. Muchos de ellos son coaccionados a trabajar para cárteles de la droga, porque no encuentran otra manera de escapar de la pobreza.

Sin embargo, a través de la escalada han aprendido que pueden hacer lo que pensaron imposible. Han encontrado el valor en sí mismos y ahora ven un futuro lleno de promesas en lugar de desesperanza.


¿Por qué escalada?

La escalada tiene una inmensa capacidad para contrarrestar valores negativos, bajos niveles de autoestima y confianza, trastorno de estrés postraumático (TEPT), y la desesperanza que abunda en los barrios vulnerables de Monterrey.


Riesgos

Siempre hay riesgos inherentes cuando se trabaja en áreas con presencia del crimen organizado. Sin embargo, nuestro equipo tiene experiencia trabajando en zonas similares alrededor del mundo y el contacto con líderes locales y las personas de estos barrios, es una póliza de seguro.

Por otra parte, es nuestro objetivo, misión y pasión trabajar en aquellas áreas donde no hay otras organizaciones o agencias gubernamentales presentes. Si nosotros no estamos allí, nadie lo está. 


Otras maneras de ayudar

¿No puedes donar? No te preocupes, todavía puedes ser de gran ayuda. Comparte nuestra campaña de Indiegogo y dando “me gusta” en Facebook ya estás hacienda mucho para mover esto.


T-Shirt Perks
Renan Ozturk Print


Ácaro designed t-shirts




Skateboards - Tablas de Skate de Nahual Skateboards







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T-Shirt by Renan Ozturk

$50 USD
Renan Ozturk, renown climber, explorer, and artist has graciously donated one of his prints, "Center of the Universe", to be used on Escalando Fronteras' T-Shirts.
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Name on our Website

$10 USD
Your name will go onto our new website for at least a year.
7 claimed

Escalando Fronteras T-Shirt

$25 USD
This shirt was designed by Ácaro, a well-know street and grafitti artist from Monterrey and made in a workshop started by ex-gang members that have dedicated their lives to art and design and teaching at-risk youth in their neighborhood how to do screen printing as a way of getting them away from crime.
97 claimed

Printed High-Quality Photo

$30 USD
The kids of Escalando Fronteras are great with the camera and have taken some amazing photographs of climbing and of each other. You will get to choose from a set of their best photographs which we will print and send to you with the signature of whoever took the photo.
6 claimed

Nahual Skateboard

$100 USD
Nahual Skateboards, a burgeoning Mexican skateboard company, has graciously donated 6 boards from its first line to Escalando Fronteras. The board is made of 6 layered Canadian maple and the designs are laser printed. It is the board that will be offered with this perk, no trucks. Those you will have to buy separately. Thanks a lot. Shipping to U.S. and Mexico is free.
4 out of 6 of claimed

Name a climbing route

$200 USD
Gareth Leah and Ramon Narvaez, two members of Escalando Fronteras, are currently bolting new routes in La Huasteca, a limestone climbing area of immense proportions in Monterrey. It is 10 Potrero Chicos in one area. They are bolting routes between 5.8 to 5.14+ and you will be able to name one route, routes that will still exist long after we no longer do. We will also film a video of one of our kids or us climbing or trying to climb that route (depending on how hard it is).
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Package Deal

$500 USD
You will get a free tour of the neighborhoods we are working in Monterrey, 1 of our Renan Ozturk designed T-shirts, and you will become a member of Escalando Fronteras, which means you will have a vote in all of our decision-making processes as well as have your name and a photo on our website.
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Package of Awesome

$1,000 USD
You will always have a free place in Escalando Fronteras' house in Monterrey, lifetime access to their gym, you will get 1 of each of the t-shirts, will get to name a route (and get a video of that route), will become a member of Escalando Fronteras with voting power in all the organization;s decisions, as well as have your name and photo on our website.
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