Where We Work

Protecting Children of War: Colombia

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Our work in Colombia, with our sister organization called Taller de Vida, offers a new life to former child soldiers. We provide trauma counseling, art therapy and more. We also provide trainings that empower grassroots women to advocate for their rights.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Colombia

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Advancing Climate Justice

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Indigenous Women Climate Defenders: Kenya

Frequent drought triggered by climate change is devastating rural communities. MADRE and the Indigenous Information Network are training women to confront these threats. Women share knowledge on how to harvest rain water and to store food and water to last through droughts. Help women fight climate change.

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Africa / Kenya

Programs:

Environmental Justice

The Safe Birth Project: Palestine

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Many Palestinian women in the West Bank receive no prenatal care. Midwives for Peace is a group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives supported by MADRE. They work to ensure that childbirth is a joyful happy, healthy occasion for every mother.

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Middle East / Palestine

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Women's Weaving Collective: Guatemala

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MUIXIL is an Indigenous women's grassroots organization. Together we support a women’s weaving collective, providing looms and raw materials. Women not only sell their work for income but as a way to preserve their heritage of traditional weaving designs.

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Latin America and Carribean / Guatemala

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Shelter Without Walls: Nicaragua

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Indigenous women on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast face poverty, discrimination and violence. What’s more, these acts of violence are often met with impunity. MADRE works with a grassroots women's organization called Wangki Tangni. We work with communities to confront issues of violence and train women to document violations.

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Latin America and Carribean / Nicaragua

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Freedom for All: Haiti

Thousands of Haitians today face violence and discrimination because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. MADRE partners with grassroots Haitian women’s and LGBT groups, including FACSDIS and SEROvie, to create safe spaces to organize and to advance new protections against violence.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Haiti

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The Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women

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Women are at severe risk of rape, sexual slavery and kidnapping. They need urgent aid, shelter and emergency relocation. With MADRE, our local partner called the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), is there. We deliver humanitarian aid and safe passage, even to women in ISIS-controlled areas.

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Middle East / Iraq

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Zenab for Women in Development

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Partner in Sudan

Women in Sudan face war, poverty, the ravages of climate change and entrenched discrimination. Zenab for Women in Development enables Sudanese women to join forces in order to meet their families' basic needs and fight for their rights as women.

Region:

Africa / Sudan

Project:

Women Farmers Union

Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq

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Partner in Iraq

The Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) is a truly pioneering national women’s organization dedicated to rebuilding Iraq on the basis of secular democracy and human rights for all.

Region:

Middle East / Iraq

Program:

Partner

Taller de Vida

Partner in Colombia

Taller de Vida provides critical services for displaced Afro-Colombian and Indigenous women and youth. They work with former child soldiers and youth at risk of being recruited in Colombia's decades-long war, and use art and activism to create a peaceful future.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Colombia

Program:

Partner

Midwives for Peace

Partner in Palestine

Midwives for Peace is a grassroots group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives working together to ensure that childbirth is a joyous and safe experience for women despite the conflict that surrounds them. Midwives for Peace saves lives by providing critical pre-natal care and childbirth support.

Region:

Middle East / Palestine

Program:

Partner

Wangki Tangni

Partner in Nicaragua

Wangki Tangni is a community development organization run by and for Indigenous women on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast. They work to demand an end to violence and promote women's rights.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Nicaragua

Program:

Advancing Climate Justice

Partner

Indigenous Information Network

Kenya

The Indigenous Information Network (IIN) is a women-led organization that connects Indigenous Peoples, sustains their communities and strengthens their demands for human rights.

Region:

Africa / Kenya

Program:

Partner

MUIXIL

Partner in Guatemala

MUIXIL is a Guatemalan grassroots women's group that promotes the political, economic, and cultural rights of Ixil Mayan and other Indigenous women.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Guatemala

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MADRE staff with partners standing outside workshop venue