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NEW GRANTEES FOR 2022

We are delighted to announce this year’s grants awarded from the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights (MBI). A vital initiative of Grassroots International, the MBI provides a way to integrate human rights with community health and wellbeing, particularly among those severely harmed by political repression, structural violence and social injustice. Grants from the MBI support community-led efforts that promote education, psychosocial wellbeing and pursuit of social reparations and a more just and equitable world. This is a way of engaging in what our partners call “buen vivir,” or living well.

Below are brief descriptions of the organizations and their vital work.

The MBI is supported entirely by contributions, so please add your support to this work.

 

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CURCUM Collective in collaboration with the Lajee Center, Palestine

    The Martín-Baró Initiative at Grassroots International is providing a second year of funding to the CURCUM Collective in collaboration with the Lajee Center to further their development and use of a training guide for Palestinian Community Health Workers (CHWs). The collective is a coalition of indigenous Palestinian activists, social workers, psychologists, CHWs, and leaders of...... Read More
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    Proyecto Buena Semilla, Guatemala

      Buena Semilla describes itself as a grassroots organization that supports the “social and human rights challenges faced by indigenous communities in Guatemala, especially women, by supporting social mobilization, self and collective empowerment, the reweaving of the social fabric, reclamation of identity and voice, and increased ability to recognize and challenge gender-based violence in its many...... Read More
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      Centros de Apoyo Mutuo Jíbaro de Lares (CAMS), Plataforma Agro-Cultural para el Empoderamiento Comunitario (PACEC), Puerto Rico

        The MBI is providing another year of funding to the Jíbaros Mutual Support Centers (CAMS), part of a larger network of mutual aid and support centers within Puerto Rico. Born in the wake of Hurricane María in 2017, the grassroots project seeks to establish conditions that provide long-term autonomy for vulnerable local communities. With funding...... Read More

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

          The Bartolomé de las Casas Center and Foundation (CBC) works to heal communities of survivors of armed conflicts in Chalatenango, El Salvador and Quiché, Guatemala who were affected by political, social, and historical trauma. This initiative has facilitated Nuku Yolb’e, a dialogue between survivors within those two groups, which has supported the affirmation and inclusion...... Read More
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          Colectiva Actoras de Cambio, Guatemala

            The Actors of Change Collective, founded in 2009 in Guatemala, works to empower Mayan women faced with sexist, racist, and classist violence to regain their autonomy and live a fuller life. The methodology of their most recent project, titled “Healing Action for the Recovery of Powers and Lives for the Construction of Territories Free of...... Read More
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            Comissão Pastoral da Terra-Maranhão, Brazil

              The Pastoral Land Commission (Comissão Pastoral da Terra – CPT) will continue their initiative from the previous year, From Banzo to Healing: Facing Pain through the Eyes of Women. Over one hundred women from eight traditional communities accompanied by the CPT in Maranhão are participating in this initiative. The latter is a caretaking process that...... Read More
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              Connecting with Life, Santa Marta, El Salvador

                Connecting with Life plans to continue with the activities initiated last year to promote the mental health of survivors of the armed conflict in Santa Marta and their families. Through their radio project, Connecting with Life will increase the general population’s awareness of mental health and promote the commitment to cultivate it. They will develop...... Read More
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                Domestic Workers United, Brooklyn, NY, USA

                  The Domestic Workers United entered their first year of funding with the Martín-Baró Initiative at Grassroots International (MBI at GRI) in 2021. This NYC-based group is a grassroots collective of workers, women of color, and immigrant women of primarily Caribbean, Latina, and African background working to “build power, raise the level of respect for domestic...... Read More
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                  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 rights and environmental justice through education, advocacy, and community action. They support and mobilize women in the region to speak out against violence and injustice specifically in the highly militarized...... Read More
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                    KOURAJ, Haiti

                      Since the Martín-Baró Initiative first partnered with KOURAJ in 2021, the situation in Haiti generally and for LGBTI individuals in particular has only worsened. This group of masisi activists continues to fight against discrimination and stigmatization of LGBTI individuals in Haiti. Masisi was originally a derogatory term used by Haitians against LGBTI people, but it...... Read More
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                      Afaq Jadeeda, Gaza, Palestine

                        Afaq Jadeeda (New Horizons) was founded in 2000 and was among the first group of Martín-Baró Initiative grantees at Grassroots International. The project is located in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip and is one of the most densely populated camps in Gaza. It is home to tens of thousands of...... Read More