Help Vulnerable Women Become Leading Change Agents

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Help Vulnerable Women Become Leading Change Agents

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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. read updates from the field

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$50 - Provides annual health insurance for 5 Graduates
$100 - Provides training materials for one course at the Conscious Change Academy
$200 - Provides one month of hands-on advisory support for a social venture

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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.

Activities

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.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $33,869
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $18,964
Total Funding Goal: $52,833

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

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.

Project Message

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Gretchen Wallace
President and Founder
45 Lyme Road
Suite 206
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
United States
(+1) 603.643.0400
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Project Sponsor

Global Grassroots

Organization

Global Grassroots
45 Lyme Road Suite 206
Hanover, NH 3755
United States
(+1) 603.643.0400
http://www.globalgrassroots.org

Learn more about Global Grassroots and the project team.

Global Grassroots's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Combat Violence in 50 Rwanda Households	550 Women & Youth to Defend Property Rights	Anti-Violence Clubs & Training for 1000 Leaders	Educate 500 On Women's Property Rights in Rwanda
Train 400 on Legal Marriage & Women's Rights	Clean Water and Trainings for 100 Families	Protect 815 Rwandan Women from Domestic Violence	Provide Water for 150 Families and Fight Violence
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Where this Project is Located

Country

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.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 2, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

Global Grassroots Reaches 40,000 Lives

By Gretchen Wallace - Global Grassroots Reaches 40,000 Lives, September 23, 2009 02:01 PM

30 women learn to write. Venture: Let Us Build Ourselves

90 prostitutes learn new skills. Venture: Meg Foundation

Water delivered to 250 families. Venture: Work for Life

Global Grassroots held its annual Gathering of Graduates from its Conscious Change Academy in Kigali this August. Over 75 grassroots change agents attended, enjoying new workshops on conciousness practices, creative problem-solving and financial sustainability. Joining us from the US were graduate student Lydia Humenycky of Carnegie Mellon University, Melissa Collum - a Fulbright Fellow and social studies teacher from Wisconsin, and Jennifer Holden - former board member, athlete manager and photographer from Utah.

Over the course of 10 weeks in the field, Lydia completed an in-depth Impact Assessment of our Academy program. Her analysis show Global Grassroots is moving steadily towards its goals in supporting marginalized women in becoming leading change agents. In only two years, we have helped establish 11 civil society organizations, 6 of which are moving into their 2nd and 3rd year of operations! Our graduates' ventures have collectively touched upwards of 40,000 lives across Rwanda, combating domestic violence, illiteracy, sexual exploitation and lack of clean water. We invite you to download our 2009 Project Portfolio which we have just posted under our GlobalGiving profile to learn more about each project you have helped make possible by supporting our Conscious Change Academy.

Over a dozen projects remain in our pipeline, which we have also just begun to post separately on GlobalGiving.com. Please consider supporting a specific project by searching under Global Grassroots or projects supporting Women and Girls in Rwanda. Our goal is to launch 10 more projects by year end. Thank you for your continued support of our work.

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