María Gómez (racquetball)
María Gómez may refer to: * María Cristina Gómez (1942–1989), Baptist primary school teacher and community leader in El Salvador who was abducted and murdered * María Gómez (handballer) (born 1984), Paraguayan team handball player * María Gómez (weightlifter) (born 1975), Mexican weightlifter {{hndis, Gomez, Maria ...
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María Cristina Gómez
María Cristina Gómez (5 May 1942 – 5 April 1989) was a Baptists, Baptist primary school teacher and community leader in El Salvador who was abducted and murdered on 5 April 1989. Christian Mission A member of Emmanuel Baptist church in San Salvador, Gómez was a national leader both of Baptist women and in the teachers' union. She was a founder of the National Coordination of Salvadoran Women (CONAMUS), an organization of women founded in 1986. Since then, CONAMUS has addressed the issues which directly affect poor women in El Salvador, including domestic violence and rape, economic survival, lack of political participation, and social inequality. In 1989 CONAMUS opened a clinic to respond to women who were victims of domestic violence and rape. In her spare time Gómez went out into the local villages and taught the peasant women how to read. She did this so that they in turn could teach their children how to read but also so that they could read health and farming leaflet ...
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