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Equity and Justice Grants: Funded Projects
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2010
Carbondale (IL) Unitarian Fellowship: $5,000 for "The Kabwe Library and Resource Center/Building a Legacy of Literacy."
Start-up costs for a library/resource center serving the Ranchhod HIV/AIDS Hospice and Orphan Care Center in Kabwe, Zambia.
Mujeres Iniciando en Las Americas, Costa Mesa, CA: $1,000 for "Hombres Contra Feminicidio (Men Against Feminicide, aka The White Ribbon Campaign)"
An educational program for middle school children addressing the root causes of violence against women.
UU Church of Fort Myers, FL: $3,000 for "Women's Health Workshops: Empowering Migrant Farm Workers and Indigenous Women"
Two free workshops covering reproductive and family health, domestic violence, human trafficking, prenatal care, self-care techniques and community resources serving 100 farm workers and indigenous women and adolestcent girls in Southwest Florida.
h2Empower, Inc., Huntington Station, NY: $4,000 for "Women's Literacy in Burundi"
Start-up costs for an adult education learning center to teach reading, writing, and accounting to participants of a microloan program in Bujumbura, Burundi.
Rock Women Group, Nairobi, Kenya: $1,000 for "Kenya Child Labour Project"
Support for a project that addresses structural issues keeping children in exploitive jobs.
Mujeres De Maiz Opportunity Foundation, Sequim, WA: $1,000 for "Promoting Adult Women's Literacy in Chanal, Chiapas, Mexico"
A full-year, certified program of literacy training for 15 women who were unable to complete their primary education.
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2009
Friends of Kunya, Friday Harbor, WA: $3,000 for "Clear Water for Kunya"
Our grant helped install a pump and tank-treat system that brings water from Lake Victoria to Kunya Village, Kenya, where it is treated and distributed. Girls who previously spent an average of six hours daily fetching water have more time for school and lead safer lives, avoiding both illness from polluted water and the danger of attack on the route to and from the lake.
Rock Women Group, Nairobi, Kenya: $4,000 for "Kenya Child Labour Project.
A coalition of school teachers from Nairobi's poorest areas, Rock Women works to strengthen the rights of their city's child laborers. Our grant helped them broaden a skills training program for child workers – particularly girls – in safe, sustainable income-generating work. It also helped provide leadership training to teachers to expand their participation in the group.
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International Convocation of U*U Women: $2,500 for "ICU*UW Global Sisters Groups in Action"
The action plan of the International Convocation of U*U Women seeks to improve women's lives through anti-poverty and empowerment initiatives in education, health care (including reproductive rights) and preventing violence against women and children. Our grant is helping to support development of the ICU*UW's Global Sisters Groups Council and Online Community, as well as to document learnings from the Convocation.
The Real Wealth of Portland Project: $2,000 for "Dr. Riane Eisler & The Real Wealth of Portland Workshop."
Our grant helped the Economic Action Group of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, OR, bring a workshop on their caring economics project - inspired by Eisler's book, The Real Wealth of Nations - to GA 2009. The workshop educated participants about the caring economics concept and Portlanders' involvement in initiatives advocating for children, sustainability, and other aspects of a durable local economy.
UU Church of Marblehead, MA: $2,500 for "Pipelines for Clean Water
Distribution"
Between 1999 and 2002 violent conflict involving Christian and Muslim communities took place on the Indonesian island of Halmahera. It left many women in the village of Duma the sole breadwinners for their families. It also destroyed the pipeline that supplied clean water to the village, burdening women and girls with the additional work of fetching water from a nearby lake. Use of the lake for bathing and laundry polluted rendered the water undrinkable. Our grant supported the digging of wells to tap into spring water, which will then be piped into all the homes in the village.
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2008
Helping Women in Prison and Their Families, a lay-led ministry of the Unitarian Church, Harrisburg, PA — $4,780 for website improvements for an organization serving women and children involved with the criminal justice system.
Jericho Road Ministries, Inc., Buffalo, NY — $4,000 plus a $2,000 matching grant for a health mentoring program for medically at-risk, refugee and low-income women.
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2007
Center for Women and Enterprise, Boston, MA — $5,000 for training in financial literacy and goal-setting for guests of a residential program for women in crisis.
East Fort Worth Montessori School and African Descent Caucus of Diverse and Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) — $3,000 toward establishment of a model early childhood education and support program for girls at risk in Sierra Leone.
Mujeres Iniciando en las Americas, Costa Mesa, CA: $5,500 for radio spots in Spanish and Qui'che providing information about sexual harassment and domestic violence and where for affected can obtain help.
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines — $5,845 toward set up costs for services and livelihood projects to empower and educate Filippine women and girls.
Unity Church Aiding Neighbors, Unitry Curch UU, North Easton, MA — $5,000 for English language, life skills, and citizenship courses for low-income, immigrant women.
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Carbondale, IL, Unitarian Fellowship — $5,000 for construction of a building providing workshp and storage space for a handicraft collective of HIV-affected women in Zambia.
Church of the Larger Fellowship Unitarian Universalist — $2,500 toard start-up costs for a UU ministry among incarcerated women in several U.S. prisons.
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Myers and the Florida Migrant Interstate Program — $2,500 matching grant for radio public service announcements educating migrant workers on the dangers of human trafficking.
Unitarian Universalist Women and Religion — $5,000 for "Cakes for the Queen of Heaven Republication Project," making this ground-breaking adult religious education curriculum available to a new generation of women.
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2005
To demonstrate the type of programs UUWF would fund with this new grants program, we awarded a $4,000 pilot grant to Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom, a program of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, for general support.
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