Posts filed under: 2021 – new projects

Afaq Jadeeda, Gaza, Palestine

Afaq Jadeeda (New Horizons), founded in 2000 in Gaza, is one of the first grantees of the Martín-Baró Initiative (MBI) at Grassroots International. The organization... Read More

Lajee Center, Aida and Al-Azza Refugee Camps, Palestine

The Lajee Center is a community-based grassroots center that engages creatively with new generations of Palestinians as they continue their ongoing struggle for justice and... Read More

KOURAJ, Haiti

KOURAJ is a group of masisi activists, fighting for the fundamental human rights of LGBTI+ persons in Haiti. KOURAJ defines masisi as “all persons who... Read More

Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center, Nigeria

The Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center is a grassroots organization founded in 2003 working in Nigeria and the West Africa subregion to promote women’s... Read More

Domestic Workers United, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Domestic Workers United (DWU) is a largely Caribbean Black non-profit organization run by Caribbean Black and Latina worker leaders and volunteers. DWU organizes to end... Read More

Connecting with Life, Santa Marta, El Salvador

This project in Santa Marta is part of Doctors for Global Health (Médicos para la Salud Global), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 by volunteers... Read More

Comissão Pastoral da Terra-Maranhão, Brazil

The Pastoral Land Commission (Comissão Pastoral da Terra – CPT) accompanies peoples of the land and waters of Maranhão, Brazil, as they engage in collective... Read More

Colectiva Actores de Cambio, Guatemala

The Actors of Change Collective, founded in Guatemala in 2009, promotes healing and justice for Maya and mestizo women who are survivors of sexual crimes... Read More

Fundación Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas (CBC), San Salvador, El Salvador

The Bartolomé de las Casas Center and Foundation (CBC) was created in El Salvador to help heal communities affected by political, social, and historical trauma.... Read More

Centros de Apoyo Mutuo Jíbaro de Lares (CAMS), Plataforma Agro-Cultural para el Empoderamiento Comunitario (PACEC), Puerto Rico

The MBI is funding the Jíbaros Mutual Support Centers (CAMS) as part of a larger network of mutual aid and support centers within Puerto Rico. ... Read More
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