Associação Feminina da Zona Norte (AFZN)

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The Associação Feminina da Zona Norte (Feminine Association of the North Zone) or AFZN was a grassroots movement involved in the fight for childcare services and women's rights in the city of São Paulo. The movement originated when women in the neighborhood of Vila Aurora in the city's northern periphery organized in the late 1970s to demand the city address flooding from a local stream. In addition to the flooding, children often played in the stream while their parents were at work and became sick as a result due to untreated sewage from area houses. The women formed the AFZN when the men who dominated the local neighborhood association failed to take action about the stream or the lack of childcare services. Over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, the AFZN became one of the most active groups in demanding comprehensive childcare services as part of the Movimento de Luta por Creches (Movement for Daycares).