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Where We Work

Our partners and projects span the globe: Nicaragua, Guatemala, Haiti, Colombia, Kenya, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Iraq.

Our Partners

Our partners are grassroots women's groups who have joined with MADRE to build programs that meet urgent needs in their communities and create lasting solutions to the crises they confront.

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Our Projects

The projects that MADRE and our partners run together are women-led and guided by the priorities of local communities.

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Latin America and Caribbean
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Protecting Children of War

Ending Gender Violence

project

Protecting Children of War: Colombia

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

Programs:

Building a Just Peace, Ending Gender Violence

Indigenous Women Climate Defenders

Help women fight climate change

Advancing Climate Justice

project

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.

Region:

Africa / Kenya

Programs:

Environmental Justice

The Safe Birth Project

Building a Just Peace

project

The Safe Birth Project: Palestine

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.

Region:

Middle East / Palestine

Programs:

Building a Just Peace

Women's Weaving Collective

Building a Just Peace

project

Women's Weaving Collective: Guatemala

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.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Guatemala

Programs:

Building a Just Peace, Ending Gender Violence

Shelter Without Walls

Ending Gender Violence

project

Shelter Without Walls: Nicaragua

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.

Region:

Latin America and Carribean / Nicaragua

Programs:

Ending Gender Violence

Women Farmers Union

Group of women dressed in different colors in a bright green open field.

Advancing Climate Justice

project

Women Farmers Union

Together, we support 5,000 women farmers so that they can grow the food their families need to survive and encourage young women to become farmers.

Region:

Africa / Sudan

Partner: Zenab for Women in Development

Programs:

Advancing Climate Justice, Economic Justice & Fighting Poverty

The Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women

Ending Gender Violence

project

The Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women

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.

Region:

Middle East / Iraq

Programs:

Building a Just Peace, Ending Gender Violence

Freedom for All

Ending Gender Violence

project

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

Programs:

Ending Gender Violence

Zenab for Women in Development

Group of women in an open field

Partner

Zenab for Women in Development

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

Building a Just Peace

Partner

Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq

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:

Building a Just Peace

Taller de Vida

Taller de Vida Header Image

Building a Just Peace

Partner

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:

Building a Just Peace

Midwives for Peace

Building a Just Peace

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:

Building a Just Peace

Wangki Tangni

Ending Gender Violence

Partner

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:

Building a Just Peace, Ending Gender Violence

Indigenous Information Network

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:

Building a Just Peace

MUIXIL

Building a Just Peace

Partner

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

Program:

Building a Just Peace, Ending Gender Violence

Legal Reform in Iraq, Anti-Domestic Violence Law and Shelter Policy

MADRE staff with partners standing outside workshop venue

Ending Gender Violence

Press

Legal Reform in Iraq, Anti-Domestic Violence Law and Shelter Policy

published: 02/03/2019

Region:

Middle East / Iraq

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