Afro-Latin Development

 

 

 

 

 

“when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole...race enters with me”

 

 

-Anna Julia Cooper, American Civil Rights Advocate -

Excerpt from “A Voice From the South”

Past Grant Recipients:

2007 Grant Cycle

Reunion de Mizangas Mujeres Jovenes Afrodescendientes (Young Women of African Descent – Mizangas Reunion) - URUGUAY

Project:  Empowerment of young women of African descent:  Approaching sexual and reproductive rights with an emphasis on ethnic, racial and gender identity. 
Purpose:  The proceeds of the grant were used to fund a program for adolescent Afro-Uruguayan girls to promote self-identity, especially as it relates to sexual awareness and images of Black women in the Uruguayan society, with the goal of improving opportunities and conditions to exercise their rights as citizens.

Foro De Desarrollo Integral De La Mujer Y La Familia (Forum for the Essential Development of Women and the Family) - ECUADOR

Project:  Creation of communal banks for women with low-income in the San Lorenzo region of Ecuador. 
Purpose:  The proceeds of the grant were used to fund a project that provides business management training and small loans to fifty Afro-Ecuadorian women entrepreneurs.

2008 Grant Cycle

Fundación Acción y Desarrollo Comunitario (Community Action and Development Foundation) - ECUADOR
Project:  Strengthening of the Savings Plans of the Afro-Ecuadorian Business Initiative Groups
Purpose:  To support small business initiatives of Afro-Ecuadorian women’s groups, in 5 provinces of Ecuador.

2009 Grant Cycle

Asociación Negra de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (Black Association for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights) – PERU
Project: Afro-Peruvian Women, Enterprise and Leadership
Purpose: To develop skills of Afro-Peruvian women in rural communities, by community self-management activities that lead to income generation by producing and selling each community’s own products through trade fairs.

Fundación Ébano de Colombia (Ebony Foundation of Colombia) – COLOMBIA
Project: Education in Health and Sexual Awareness for Women and Girls of Afro-Colombian Descent in the Sincelejo Municipality
Purpose: To empower and provide a group of fifty Afro-Colombian young women and girls, who have been displaced by violence in the Sincelejo region of Colombia, with sexual awareness and health education.
 

2010 Grant Cycle

Asociación Proyecto Bambata Herencia Africana (African Bambata Heritage Project Association) - VENEZUELA
Project: Production of organic fertilizer by women and girls of African descent
Purpose: To teach a group of Afro-Venezuelan women and girls to produce agro-economic fertilizer from natural resources in order to create an organic sustainable community garden. The women will also receive business and financial education to market and sell the garden’s surplus as an alternative source of income to the women and their families.

Centro de Desarrollo Etnico (Center for Ethnic Development) - PERU
Project: Afro-Yapateran Women - Modeling our identity
Purpose: To enable forty Afro-Peruvian women artisans in the Yapatera community to establish micro-enterprises using skills that have been passed down for generations to create wood carving and ceramic clay artisanal products. In addition to receiving training to develop accounting and financial skills, the women will also participate in workshops to strengthen their cultural identity and to develop self-esteem from a gender perspective.

 

Past Grant Recipients