DIF and its background
The Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (SNDIF) is a public institution in charge to implement, apply, and give dimension to the public policies in the social assistance scope.
The SNDIF has its background in the Gota de Leche Program that in 1929 gathered a group of Mexican women concerned with the nourishment of boys and girls from the Mexico City surroundings.
From Gota de Leche, the Asociación Nacional de Protección a la Infancia is created and it started receiving support from the Lotería Nacional para la Beneficiencia Pública.
On January 31, 1961, taking as basis the school breakfasts, the Instituto Nacional de Protección a la Infancia (INPI) is created by Presidential Decree as a decentralized institution, which generated a social attitude of great sympathy and support towards infancy.
On July 15, 1968, the Institución Mexicana de Asistencia a la Niñez (IMAN) is created, also by Presidential Decree, with an orientation to take care of boys and girls who were orphans, abandoned, helpless, disabled, or having certain diseases. Later, on the seventies, the Instituto Mexicano para la Infancia y la Familia is created.
And so in 1977, by Presidential Decree the Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF) is created by the merging of the Instituo Mexicano para la Infancia y la Familia (IMPI) and the Institución Mexicana de Asistencia a la Niñez (IMAN).
Nowadays, DIF is going through a consolidation phase and organic reorganization as part of an administrative modernizing process that will allow it to adapt to the new conditions of the Social Assistance in Mexico so it can phase the challenges that the future will bring.
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