Taller Salud
Taller Salud is a community-based feminist organization dedicated to improving women’s access to health care, to reducing violence within the community, and encouraging economic growth through education and activism. Founded in 1979, Taller Salud is an independent, non-government-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Taller Salud was founded in 1979 by Carmen Guzmán and Eugenia Acuña, as an initiative of these two feminists who arrived on the island after working in New York against practices of massive sterilization of Latin-American women, with a considerable majority of Puerto Rican women. Their mission was to get organized and active in the community in order to guarantee and provide access to abortions and birth control methods, as an alternative to the growing massive sterilization of women of low resources on the island. And it was at this moment that the first feminist organization focused on women’s health in Puerto Rico was born. During 1980 and 1981, Taller Salud received the support of fellow comrades from the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective who also became the mentors and supporters of the organization’s first campaigns.