The Foundation’s partner organizations are generally managed by women and located in the global South.
The Foundation and its partner organizations keep regular contact; their cooperation is based on mutual trust and transparency.
Bolivia
Asociación Kay Pacha
Project: Arts and crafts for survival
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partner organisations: Asociación Kay Pacha, Bolivia
The women on Lake Poopó were already organized into arts and crafts associations in the past. The Kay Pacha project helps approximately 200 women to improve their products’ quality and to gain market access more easily. A mutual network is being created to strengthen every single women’s organization. Moreover, they are taught their rights as women and as indigenous peoples in workshops.
Bolivia
Colectivo CASA
Project: Organic farming instead of mining
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/25–12/26, project partner since 2022
Partner organisations: Colectivo CASA, Bolivia
After the first project in which the women successfully fought for their right to clean water, the current project focuses on securing their livelihood in the long term. In the mining regions, they are looking for ecological alternatives to mining, receive training in organic farming and are establishing community and school gardens based on their newly acquired knowledge.
Bolivia
Fundación Comunidad Plural (C-Plural)
Project: Medicines from the forest
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partner organisations: Fundación Comunidad Plural (C-Plural), Bolivia
Deforestation, mining, and extensive agriculture are a threat to the livelihood of the indigenous Tacana people. Women having a broad knowledge of traditional herbal medicine – that is very widespread in Bolivia – are better positioned to counter this threat. The C-Plural foundation helps the female botanic experts to improve production processes and marketing of their products.
Bolivia
Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA)
Project: Strengthening women affected by violence
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 01/23–12/25
Partner organisations: Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA), Bolivia
The Fundación Machaqa Amawta (FMA) advocates for democracy, justice and equality and wants to counter the ever present gender-specific violence against women in La Paz. It gives 20 women the opportunity to train as community therapists who can then accompany and support female victims of violence in therapy groups. In this way, the women learn about their rights and are able to free themselves from situations of violence.
Bolivia
RENACE (Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica)
Project: Strengthening small women entrepreneurs
Country: Bolivia
Project duration: 10/25–09/28, project partner since 2022
Partner organisations: RENACE (Red Nacional de Acción Ecológica), Bolivia
Since 2004, RENACE has been promoting ecological agriculture among indigenous communities in the Alto Beni region. The project supported by focus women offers training and further education in business management to small women entrepreneurs and producers with the aim of improving the marketing of their local products.
Brazil
Casa de Maria
Project: Palm nuts as an opportunity
Country: Brazil
Project duration: 01/25–12/26, project partner since 2023
Partner organisations: Casa de Maria, Brazil
With the Casa de Maria cooperative’s help, palm nut gatherers – most of whom are single mothers currently living on social security – want to develop their self-made licuri and babassu nut oil, and other products to market readiness in order to improve their economic and social standing. In addition, the project plans to build a support network consisting of women’s cooperatives.
Brazil
Instituto Cordilheira
Project: Women fighting for their land
Country: Brazil
Project duration: 10/23–09/26
Partner organisations: Instituto Cordilheira, Brazil
Extensive mining is threatening the existence of many rural communities in Minas Gerais. The project supports women who campaign for human rights and an intact environment. They learn how to deal with the competent authorities while receiving assistance in establishing their economic independence in the field of medicinal herbs and aroma therapy.
Colombia
CENTRAP and Casa Ernestina Parra
Project: Safety and perspective
Country: Colombia
Project duration: 07/23–07/25, project partner since 2021
Partner organisations: CENTRAP and Casa Ernestina Parra, Soacha, Colombia
The women’s collective Casa Ernestina Parra offers women affected by violence a place of refuge and provides them with access to legal and psychosocial support, as well as educational opportunities. Additionally, this small but efficient group carries out awareness-raising work on gender-specific violence in its community and takes the authorities to task.
Peru
Las Comunes
Project: Counteracting violence through music
Country: Peru
Project duration: 07/25–07/27, project partner since 2024
Partner organisations: Las Comunes, Peru
Women and young people defend themselves against violence by composing and writing their own songs and raps against violence towards women and children. Their musical appeals are distributed via social media and aim at breaking up the patriarchal narrative. Founded in 2024, Las Comunes is breaking new ground in violence prevention with its pilot project.