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Women and Girls > Help Vulnerable Women Become Leading Change Agents (#1755)
Summary
Global Grassroots' Conscious Change Academy provides 12 months of conscious leadership and social venture training, seed grants and high-engagement support for grassroots change agents in Rwanda.
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In Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, nearly 1 million were killed and hundreds of thousands of women raped in 100 days. In the aftermath, women were left to assume the roles of men in mending communities. The poverty and gender inequality these women normally face were compounded by the physical and psychological impact of the violence. As caretakers of their communities, women have valuable insights on social change priorities, yet have access to minimal resources to initiate effective solutions.
Emerging change agents among Rwanda's most vulnerable women will receive 12 months of social venture skills training, personal transformation practices, seed grants and high-engagement support to launch their own solutions for social change.
Total Funding Received to Date: $37,039
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $15,794
Total Funding Goal: $52,833
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Global Grassroots' overarching goal is to support conscious social change, driven by and for marginalized women at the grassroots level. In 2010, Global Grassroots aims to launch 10 new social ventures in Rwanda.
I use consciousness practices in helping those in a difficult situation, so that they may overcome it and become aware of it. After awareness is attained, you become joyous.
- MUTESI, Marie, Venture Team, Meg Foundation Tailoring School
Gretchen Wallace
President and Founder
45 Lyme Road
Suite 206
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
United States
(+1) 603.643.0400
Email:
Global Grassroots
45 Lyme Road Suite 206
Hanover,
NH
3755
United States
(+1) 603.643.0400
http://www.globalgrassroots.org
This project is located in Rwanda
and can also be found under Women and Girls.
For more information about Rwanda, read the Human Development Report on Rwanda or the Wikipedia entry for Rwanda.
This project was last updated on February 16, 2010.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 2, 2007
By Gretchen Wallace - President, February 16, 2010 10:53 AM
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