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WEEKLY NEWS // APRIL 18, 2024
// FROM THE DESK OF CARINE JOCELYN, FOUNDER, THE HAITIAN WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE
Empowering Haitian Women during the Crisis
Dear Colleagues,
Haiti is facing another crisis including having a fragile, nearly nonexistent government. Despite having a history [[link removed]] as the first Black free republic, Haiti’s climate vulnerabilities coupled with continued failed international policy [[link removed]] add another layer of destruction. The Haitian Women’s Collective (HWC) [[link removed]] has created an immediate response to this crisis by putting Haitian women-led grassroots organizations first. HWC continues to support local partners in capacity building, helping to tell their story in a way that is supportive and empowering. Using a gender empowerment lens, addressing gender justice during a crisis is most important. As such, we are using our established relationships with local partners and our experience through our small grantmaking program to begin resourcing organizations with cash. We launched a GoFundMe [[link removed]] campaign to resource 3 specific partners in the areas of safe housing, economic development and sexual health. We are advocating for our partners, connecting them with potential funders to support and reinforce their capacity to serve. Further, we are working to source needed items locally—supporting the economy by purchasing new phones, tablets for the organizations, and also purchasing local goods for hygiene kits and food.
As we have identified survivors of gender-based violence and women who have been displaced by increased violence in the country as priority populations, we are working to develop a series of sexual health mobile clinics in key areas. None of this work can be done without funds.
As we address this crisis, we are still on the path to launch "The Fund for Haitian Women" next year. We are already shifting philanthropy in Haiti using a feminist lens that is built on trust and accountability. Our partners are challenged in precarious environments, but they carry on. It is our responsibility and honor at HWC to do the same.
Sincerely,
Carine Jocelyn
The Haitian Women's Collective
Founder
Learn more and donate to the GoFundMe here [[link removed]].
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The Fundación de Mujeres en Puerto Rico (FMnPR) launched their 2022-2023 community report entitled, The Road to Justice: Paving a path towards gender equity. This report highlights the importance of feminist funding in Puerto Rico and the FMnPR's conscious and intentional approach to grantmaking before, during and after socio-natural climate disasters. Read the report here [[link removed]].
Organizations led by women and nonbinary leaders of color stand at the forefront of the most urgent struggles, resolute in their commitment to constructing a just society where all can thrive. Supporting, investing in, and demonstrating care for these leaders is imperative. Building from their report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More With Less, this latest research from Ms. Foundation for Women, Living With Pocket Change: What It Means To Do More With Less [[link removed]], examines the impact and real-life experiences of chronic philanthropic underinvestment and disinvestment in the leadership of women and nonbinary people of color.
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Six months into the war on Gaza, over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned — UN Women [[link removed]]
Reeling From Mass Stabbing, Australians Ask: Was It About Hatred of Women? — The New York Times [[link removed]]
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