This small grassroots organisation was founded 33 years ago by a group of sex workers in the small city of Milagro, Ecuador. Its mission is to support sex workers? locally in a context of severe human rights violations, empowering them through capacity-building activities and outreach to improve their access to healthcare services and STI/HIV prevention materials. ASOMCM provides direct aid to brothel-based and street-based sex workers and organises advocacy meetings with local authorities to defend sex workers’ rights against police violence.