ABOUT US

We find strength in solidarity. Powerlifting builds relationships, not just muscles.

ABOUT US

We find strength in solidarity. Powerlifting builds relationships, not just muscles.

Powerlifting para el Pueblo

The Pesas y Poder program design reflects the founding feminist values of the organization in four interrelated pillars of action, which together create a space for human dignity in the gym:

  • Affirmation

  • Awareness

  • Acceptance

  • Affective Bonds

Learn About Program Design

“Our struggle then must begin with the re-appropriation of our body, the revaluation and rediscovery of its capacity for resistance, and expansion and celebration of its powers, individual and collective.”

Sylvia Federici • Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

MISSION & VISION

Promote gender equity, empowerment and healing from trauma through the practice of strength sport

COMMUNITY

Collaborate across boundaries, genders, abilities, and ages in El Salvador

OUR TEAM

Challenge hierarchies of race, class and gender with both research and fitness practice ​

PARTNERS & ALLIES

Connect diverse communities and justice initiatives​

Scholarship Expansion

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Our amazing volunteer peer trainers make programming possible at the community gym. With encouragement and fun class instruction, they inspire people to move and celebrate their bodies. In exchange, we offer scholarships to study curriculum that supports our programming. We have sent two scholarship winners to advanced personal training certification courses. We have committed to send a scholarship winner to university to study nutrition to become our local nutritionist, and we have another scholarship winner who will become the official English language ambassador and translator for the gym when we send him to a language course. But these inspiring young people need your support or we cannot fund them.

Donate Now!

All donations are tax deductible.

Pay Pal pesasypoder@gmail.com

or send a check to

Pesas Y Poder

2495 S. Graham St

Milwaukee WI 53207

LIFT PEOPLE UP

Join us to build resistance across borders​

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