ADVOCACY PROJECT
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Mission Statement
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change.
About This Cause
The Advocacy Project (AP) helps marginalized communities in the Global South to fight discrimination and poverty by providing effective, low-cost technical support. This year, 2021, we have supported 26 community-based projects start-ups and programs in ten countries. We recruit Peace Fellows – talented students with experience – to work directly with partners and assigned 19 Fellows to projects in 2021. Three were deployed to Africa, the rest worked remotely. We can also draw on a large network of creative individuals including tech experts, designers, videographers, quilters, and High School activists. All help us to promote the work of our partners in the Global South and get the message out. Current projects include: • Supporting COVID vaccination campaigns in the Global South: Our partners in Zimbabwe, Kenya., Uganda and Bangladesh have mobilized members to get hundreds pf vulnerable individuals vaccinated. • Composting in Kibera: We have helped the Shield of Faith association for women to start the first ever-composting and vermiculture project for women in the Kibera settlement. They have exceeded their 2021 targets. • Accessible water and sanitation in Ugandan schools: The Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU) will install a WASH package at a school in early 2022 and supply schools with face-masks and soap to increase enrolment, improve hygiene and protect students against COVID-19. • Conflict resolution in northwest Kenya: Children Peace Initiative Kenya helps warring pastoralists in Baragoi sub-county to collaborate around children and build resiliency against climate change. • Prevent Child Marriage in Zimbabwe: Women Advocacy Project (WAP) helps girls from under-served neighborhoods earn an income and resist child marriage. This year 80 girls will produce and sell 16,000 bottles of Clean Girl soap. • COVID-19 in Nepal: We helped our partner, Backward Society Education (BASE), to launch a highly successful 3-month campaign to reduce deaths and infections in 60 Tharu villages in central Nepal. • Empowering River Gypsies of Bangladesh: We purchased a fishing boat for The Subornogram Foundation which provides employment and supplies a feeding kitchen on Mayadip Island. • Sexual slavery in Uganda: We have helped Women in Action for Women to train survivors of forced marriage in embroidery. They have used the skill to describe their ordeal and developed a unique style of stitching which we hope to commercialize. • Telling the story of COVID: In 2021 we have helped over 200 individuals from Nepal, the US, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh to describe their experience of COVID-19 through embroidery. Their work will be exhibited, used in advocacy and published in a catalogue. • Linking fiber artists in Kenya and the US: Our pioneering program Sister Artists 2 enables women in Nairobi to make embroidered designs of wildlife which are turned into art quilts in the North to be auctioned.