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MADRE's General Brochure

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NICARAGUA

Collective Rights & Cultural Survival for Indigenous Peoples

• The Center for Indigenous Peoples' Autonomy and Development, (known by its Spanish acronym, CADPI) co-founded by MADRE, promotes Indigenous Peoples' self-determination through: a museum exhibiting work by Indigenous artists; a media center training young people in human-rights-oriented news and documentary production; a women's center; an intergenerational oral history program; community meeting spaces; and a state-of-the-art Conference Center offering seminars and study tours on Indigenous rights, autonomy, bio-diversity, and sustainable development.

In partnership with our sister organization, CADPI (the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Autonomy and Development)

Food Security, Women's Health, and Children's Literacy

• MADRE combats hunger and helps ensure food security on the North Atlantic Coast, providing Indigenous families with chickens, vegetable seeds, and training in poultry management and organic gardening.
• MADRE helps supply a maternity center for women with high-risk pregnancies and a children's literacy center.

In partnership with our sister organization, Wangki Tangni, an Indigenous community development organization

Integrating Indigenous and Western Health Care

• MADRE co-founded and supports the first women's health clinic on the North Atlantic Coast. The clinic-the only source of health care for some communities-combines Indigenous and Western medicine and offers a full range of reproductive health services.

In partnership with our sister organizations, CADAMUC Clinic

GUATEMALA

Women's Human Rights, On and Off the Factory Floor

• MADRE supports women who work in maquilas (sweatshops) through a neighborhood computer literacy and human rights training center, where women learn job skills and strategies to defend their rights in the workplace. The center includes a children's play and reading corner that provides busy mothers with child care and promotes children's literacy.
• The program encompasses community health, providing public water filters, family-planning trainings, free PAP smears and asthma treatment for women and families with no other source of health care.

In partnership with the Barcenas Maquila Workers' Committee

Legal Advocacy to End Human Rights Abuses

• MADRE helps bring legal challenges in cases of politically motivated violence against Indigenous Peoples and human rights activists.

In partnership with the Rigoberta Menchu's Organization

MEXICO

Indigenous Women's Rights are Human Rights

• MADRE helped build a new human rights training center for Indigenous women in Chiapas that offers trainings on women's rights, Indigenous Peoples' collective rights, sexual health and reproductive health, and food security.
• MADRE is helping to publish "In Our Words: A History of Mayan Women Weavers in the Chiapas Highlands."

In partnership with K'inal Antzetik, an organization promoting the political and economic rights of Indigenous women

Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights

• MADRE is helping to establish five sexual and reproductive health centers in Mexico City. Designed based on input from young people, the centers offer contraceptives, sexual health and reproductive health education, and a space for lesbian, gay, and transgender youth to come together and organize for their rights. MADRE works with youth to advocate for government accountability to sexual rights and reproductive rights and to produce health education material for young people.

In partnership with ELIGE, a youth-led organization fighting for sexual rights and reproductive rights

PERU

Voices for Justice: Human Rights Radio

• MADRE supports a Spanish/Quechua radio program produced by young Indigenous women. Participants are trained in broadcast journalism and popular health education. These women, in turn, train community members on issues of sexual rights and reproductive rights and violence against women, and serve as liaisons between women's community organizations and government officials, promoting Indigenous women's rights locally and nationally.

In partnership with CHIRAPAQ (the Center for Indigenous Cultures of Peru)

Communication Arts & Human Rights Training for Indigenous Women and Afro-Peruvian Youth

• MADRE supports a community magazine featuring art and analysis by young people. The magazine is an advocacy tool to promote human rights, including sexual rights and reproductive rights of young Afro-Peruvians and to combat discrimination against and stereotypes of Afro-Peruvian women.
• MADRE supports an art education workshop for Indigenous children, promoting cultural affirmation and self-expression.

In partnership with LUNDU, the Center of Afro-Peruvian Studies and Promotion and CHIRAPAQ (the Center for Indigenous Cultures of Peru)

COLOMBIA

Supporting Women and Families Displaced by War

• MADRE supports a national campaign to combat displacement, economic exploitation, and violence against women exacerbated by Colombia's ongoing war. The campaign includes public art performances, community radio productions, and income-generating projects by women who have been displaced by the war
• MADRE helps provide rehabilitation programs and psychological support to former child combatants and other children displaced by war through an art-therapy program that includes drama, painting, music, pottery, video, photography, and dance.

In partnership with LIMPAL, a national organization of women displaced by the war and Taller de Vida, an organization providing critical services for displaced Afro-Colombian and Indigenous women and youth

CUBA

Protecting Public Health & Ending the Embargo

• MADRE delivers medicines and medical supplies to combat AIDS, breast cancer, pediatric diseases, and other public health threats exacerbated by the US embargo.
• MADRE advocates for an end to the embargo and normalized US-Cuba relations.

In partnership with the Cuban Red Cross and the Federation of Cuban Women

RWANDA

Water for Life

• MADRE brought potable water to a rural village, reducing the threat of water-borne diseases and saving women hours of hard daily labor hauling water.
• MADRE conducts and supports trainings to prevent HIV/AIDS and malaria in rural communities

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In partnership with BENIMPUHWE, an association of women working to rebuild their lives and their country in the wake of genocide

KENYA

Combating HIV/AIDS

• MADRE helped launch an HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and treatment-advocacy program in rural, Indigenous villages.
• MADRE conducts and supports trainings on women's human rights, including sexual rights and reproductive rights and collective Indigenous rights.

In partnership with the Indigenous Information Network, an African network of Indigenous community-based organizations.

PALESTINE

Counseling, Health Care, and Food Security for Families Under Occupation

• MADRE supports a trauma counseling program to help children and families in Deheisheh Refugee Camp heal from violence; and a mobile health workers team that provides at-home treatment to camp residents when they are unable to leave their homes because of protracted curfew or military violence.
• MADRE initiated a food relief program in Deheisheh, where child malnutrition rates have tripled since 2000.

In partnership with Ibdaa, a youth cultural center promoting human rights, democratic process and gender equality

HAITI

Promoting the Right to Health Care and Development

• MADRE supports an innovative health clinic, which provides life-saving antiretroviral medication to hundreds of HIV-positive patients; pre- and post-natal care, vaccinations, and screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer.
• MADRE delivers medicines and medical supplies, food, and cooking oil to women and families in some of Haiti's poorest communities.

In partnership with Zanmi Lasante, a rural health care center co-founded by Partners in Health

IRAQ

Freedom from Occupation and Religious Coercion

• MADRE helped open three women's shelters for women threatened by rape and domestic violence, which have increased sharply since the US invasion.
• MADRE supports leadership development trainings for women in the shelters and helps to promote women's political participation in building a secular, democratic, and truly sovereign Iraq.

In partnership with OWFI (the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq)

HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY: Putting International Law in Women's Hands and Bringing Women to the International Arena

• MADRE works with our sister organizations to help ensure that governments meet their obligations to respect and implement international law and human rights standards in local, national, and international policymaking.
• MADRE offers training for women from our sister organizations to enable them to participate effectively in international processes such as UN conferences. And MADRE works to provide resources-such as translation, per diem stipends, and popular versions of international documents and agreements-to guarantee that the international arena is accessible to women who work in community-based organizations.
• MADRE facilitates the International Indigenous Women's Forum (IIWF/FIMI), a global network of Indigenous women working to secure the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples in the international arena and the rights of Indigenous women within their communities.

VOYAGES WITH A VISION

MADRE delegations to the countries where we work facilitate a firsthand understanding of human rights struggles and an exchange of friendship and support with women and families from our sister organizations.

SISTERS WITHOUT BORDERS & INTERNSHIPS

MADRE's exchange program enables skilled volunteers to support the work of our sister organizations abroad, and women from our sister organizations to receive training and capacity building at MADRE's New York office. Internships are also available at MADRE.