V-DAY GRANTS
DOLPHIN ANTI-RAPE AND AIDS CONTROL
Dolphin Anti-Rape and AIDS Control continued their
ongoing anti-violence and self defense training work for
students and teachers in Kenya. Their life-saving works
impacts thousands of young people and their families
each year. It also empowers teachers and youth workers
with the training to pass on self-defense skills to their
students.
PROMOTING WOMEN’S CAPABILITY BY EDUCATION
(PWCE) provides courses in many different fields,
including computer classes, literacy, and science. In
response to domestic violence, poverty, and hardships of
life in a war-ridden country, the center also gives support
by holding weekly seminars on issues impacting women
and girls. Through the center, students are able to pursue
the college and careers of their choice, becoming “the
future doctors, engineers, lawyers, scientists, artists, and
technical experts” who give hope to Kabul.
V-DAY SAFE HOUSE FOR THE GIRLS
TASARU NTOMONOK INITIATIVE/ AGNES PAREYIO
Since it opened in 2002, Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative
has been a safe house for girls fleeing Female Genital
Mutilation and early marriage, and an educational hub
for the Kenyan community about the damage and impact
these forms of violence have on the girls and on the
community. 52 girls resided at the safe house during
this holiday season and have been sent to school. 140
girls between the ages of 12-16 years took part in 2
Alternative Right of Passage training so that they could
graduate into adulthood without the cut. The center also
continues to run 2 workshops a month in the community
for 100 people each about the dangers of early childhood
marriage and FGM. Support has also helped staff
continue with training to help improve operations and
infrastructure at the center.
A grant went to support SHE an, important choreoplay
written and choreographed by dancer Jinah Parker, and
produced by longtime V-Day activist Kevin Powell. The
piece, about sexual violence and healing, tells the story of
mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins,
friends and acquaintances we each know.
GABRIELA, A nationwide alliance of more than 200
women’s organizations, supports groups of Pinays
and non-Pinays across the globe. Active in national
Filipino politics through the GABRIELA Women’s Party,
leaders in justice for migrant and domestic workers,
and grassroots activists throughout the Philippines
addressing issues of militarization, climate change,
gender disparity and corruption, the alliance is dedicated
to the mission of achieving women’s freedom and true
democracy.
GABRIELA has been a leader in One Billion Rising,
using the tools and platform year round to amplify their
calls demanding an end to poverty and to the neoliberal
policies that keep poverty and economic violence and
exploitation in place; demanding an end to militarization,
mining, sex and human trafficking, electronic violence,
and labor export policies that force 600 Filipinos a day
(80% of whom are women) to work abroad as domestic
workers, nannies, caregivers; demanding an end to
foreign intervention of the US and the Visiting Forces
Agreement; demanding an end to contractualization of
workers and demanding higher wages and work benefits;
demanding an end to commercialization of education, of
privatization of social services, of home demolitions and
plunder of our environment.
A grant supported THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW,
which, on a weekly basis, features people with innovative,
power-shifting solutions to the problems of our time,
including violence against women and girls and white
supremacy.
A grant to the GULF SOUTH DISASTER RESPONSE
went towards Project South and the US Human Rights
Network to respond to long-term recovery from the
climate violence of hurricanes in the Gulf South
(Harvey, Irma, and others). Funds benefited locally
based women’s leadership, predominantly women of
color, and young people who are working alongside
community efforts to contend with the impacts of
hurricanes, flooding, and violence related to the
extreme climate crisis. 300 girls, women, boys, and
men of all ages were served.
THE NEW PRESS, a publisher of books in
the social justice space, received a grant
to distribute 2,200 copies of its new book, IN A
DAY’S WORK: The Fight to End Sexual Violence
Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, to
2,200 individuals attending the 2018 New York
Women’s Foundation Celebrating Women breakfast,
which brings together women who are politically and
philanthropically engaged in issues related to gender
equity and safety.
MATTERS OF THE EARTH, an international People
of Color collective of educators and multi-sector
practitioners who use their skills to build strategy
and tools to transform organizational spaces received
a grant to support Natalie Jeffers’ work as a grassroots
leader across transnational movement spaces and to
connect the US, UK and European feminists movements
and intersectional/Black feminist organizers responding
to the impact of Conservative rule, Brexit/Trump and the
rise of the Global far right. It also supported workshops,
podcasts, community sit downs, drop ins, teach ins,
performance and political events across 5 UK cities.