WHO WE ARE
Mexoxo is a non-profit organization that supports women to achieve their full potential. Believing that education is the tool for growth and change, Mexoxo encourages, enables and facilitates women’s active involvement in business, employment, learning, and community.
OUR HISTORY
The Mexoxo journey started in 2013 in Tijuana Mexico, when Elpida Kokkota, Founder & CEO, made the brave decision to do what she loved and leave behind the Bostonian lifestyle.
The action was fired up by Professor Nobel Laureate M. Yunus, who mentored her vision to help women to achieve socio-economic growth. Two women in Mexico became Mexoxo's first beneficiaries. Commencing Mexoxo's impact they open the road to 500 more women to become entrepreneurs.
Two years later, Elpida officially pledged a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to empower and educate 5,000 women by 2020. The mission was fulfilled in 16 countries at the end of 2019.
Mexoxo was nominated by the National Greek Delegation to represent Greece, for the first time in its history, for the "UNESCO Prize for Women's and Girls Education 2020". During its 9 years of operation Mexoxo has achieved to support 27,300+ women directly and 109,200+ women indirectly.
WHAT WE DO
Our vision to unleash every woman’s potential can only be achieved by addressing the following crucial needs that constitute key barriers for their socio-economic growth and their emergence from vulnerable situations such as:
Lack of Education
Unemployment
Financial Instability
Lack of educational and employment opportunities due to the geographical boundaries and human characteristics
Lack of a gender-specific support network in the professional sphere
Mexoxo team together with our Academia, Governmental, Corporate, and local NGO partners bring collective change to:
Unleash every woman’s potential anywhere at any time.
Together we inspire, aspire, enrich women's capacity, education and network, to lead their lives with freedom, independence, economic stability and thus, become capable to neutralize any type of discrimination. Empowering women is a clear path to influence real change and equal long-term wealth on a global scale.
HOW WE DO IT
MEET
We enable women to meet mentors, opinion leaders and other women to collaborate and grow their economic capacity. Women become the force of each other.
MASTER
We offer online education from top academic institutions. Women can attend experts' lectures from around the world, test their knowledge through interactive quizzes and acquired educational certifications that will help them master their careers and their entrepreneurial journeys.
MANIFEST
We help women to manifest and discover their self-power, build resilience to keep walking towards achieving their dreams and feel the assurance that they can succeed. Dedicated videos, lectures from role models and assessment tests leads them in their empowerment journey.
We Celebrate Your Achievements at MEXOXO EVOLUTION DAY
WHO WE SUPPORT
ENTREPRENEURS
We support female entrepreneurs, to enhance their business capabilities with the goal to increase their income, create jobs, and achieve socio-economic growth.
CAREER
We support young talented women to improve and enhance their performance and be well prepared for future challenges and choices in their career path.
VULNERABLE
We support women in societies where social norms and values are biased in favor of men. They are deprived of many privileges such as rights, education, healthcare, parental property rights, and social status.
TEEN
We support teenage girls to build confidence, discover their talents, and envision their future by teaching them entrepreneurship, leadership, and soft skills.
LGBTQI+
We support the LGBTQI+ community and we become their ally to ensure they experience diversity & inclusion in their career paths and workplaces.
OUR TEAM
Elpida
Kokkota
Founder and CEO
Aggeliki
Galani
Community Manager
Penny
Skarpeta
CEP
Dimitra
Pantou
Administration Coordinator
Nancy
Kaimaki
CFO
Christina
Iliou
ICT Manager
Stavroula Zervoulakou
COO
Phivos
Ragos
Legal Advisor
Maria Manioudaki
Communications & Sponsorships Director
ADVISORS
Yannis Tsakalos
Strategic Advisor AQ Strategy
Fotis Rigas
CEO Executive Level
Spyros Syrmakesis
Professor Electrician and Computer Engineering Department,
University of Peloponnese
Henric Totterman
Creative Leadership Advisor, LEADx3M,
Hult International Business School, Harvard
Julie Mouquet
European Cooperation Project Officer
MEXOXO WOMEN
UN - SDGs
ALIGNMENT
Mexoxo’s activities and programs of impact are in alignment with the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.