Empower Women! Project

Members of the community in Bisan are marginalized, but women are especially marginalized and particularly vulnerable to violence both within and outside of the community. The project is coordinating with local women's organizations in Nebaj, the neighboring city to Bisan, to provide women with a space for empowerment and for healing. Funding is desperately needed to help provide support for local women to lead consciousness-raising groups for women in the community to be able to openly discuss ongoing threats and issues of violence within the community and to address them in a way that does not put them at further risk for harm. Indigenous rural women are at particular risk for multiple forms of violence, including economic, social, physical, and psychological violence within and outside of the home. Please contact Shannon at holashannon[at]gmail[dot]com if you are interested in assisting with this initiative.