Posts filed under: 2015

Project Hajra, USA

Project Hajra is a grassroots initiative tackling interpersonal, gender-based violence within the Muslim community in Queens, NY. The movement already includes 150 volunteer members, a... Read More

Kyabaan Association, Philippines

Kyabaan works to support indigenous youth in the southernmost island of the Philippines, Mindanao. Mindanao is a site of historic and ongoing counterinsurgency warfare aimed... Read More

Mobile Expressive Therapies Program, Palestine

The Mobile Expressive Therapies Program was started by Khitam Edelbi, graduate of Lesley College, in 2009. It began when she packed her car—and later her... Read More

Freedom Summer Palestine, Palestine

Freedom Summer Palestine is a grassroots organization run by young people at the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank of Palestine. The situation for... Read More

Action des Femmes à la Non-Violence, DRC

Action des Femmes a la Non-Violence (AFN) was granted a third year of funding in 2015. AFN is a grassroots organization in the eastern part... Read More

NOMADESC, Colombia

NOMADESC was awarded a third year of funding this year. Nomadesc has worked since 2000 to address poverty, trauma, and hopelessness brought on by the... Read More

The Awakening, Pakistan

The Awakening is entering its third and final year of funding by the Martín-Baró Fund. It operates in the Swat district of Pakistan, under extremely... Read More

Médicos Descalzos, Guatemala

Médicos Descalzos is receiving its third and final year of funding from the Martín-Baró Fund. In 2014, Médicos Descalzos was able to complete a comprehensive... Read More