Welcome to the circle of liberal religious women and men working to advance justice for women and to promote their spiritual growth.
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Our 2009 Grant Recipientsx
Equity and Justice Grants
Funding bold, innovative projects that effect
positive social change in the lives of women and girls
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2009
Friends of Kunya, Friday Harbor, WA: $3,000 for "Clear Water for Kunya"
Our grant will help install a pump and tank-treat system bringing water from Lake Victoria to Kunya Village, Kenya, where it will be treated and distributed. Girls who can now spend an average of six hours daily fetching water will have more time for school and will lead safer lives, avoiding both illness from polluted water and the danger of attack on the route to and from the lake.
Rock Women Group, Nairobi, Kenya: $4,000 for "Kenya Child Labour Project.
A coalition of school teachers from Nairobi's poorest areas, Rock Women works to strengthen the rights of their city's child laborers.
Our grant will help them broaden a skills training program for child workers – particularly girls – in safe, sustainable income-generating work. It will also help provide leadership training to teachers preparing to expand their participation in the group.
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International Convocation of U*U Women: $2,500 for "ICU*UW Global Sisters Groups in Action"
The action plan of the International Convocation of U*U Women seeks to improve women's lives through anti-poverty and empowerment initiatives in education, health care (including reproductive rights) and preventing violence against women and children.
Our grant will help support development of the ICU*UW's Global Sisters Groups Council and Online Community, as well as documentation of learnings from the Convocation.
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The Real Wealth of Portland Project: $2,000 for "Dr. Riane Eisler & The Real Wealth of Portland Workshop."
Our grant helped the Economic Action Group of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, OR, bring a workshop on their caring economics project - inspired by Eisler's book, The Real Wealth of Nations - to GA 2009.
The workshop will educate participants about the caring economics concept and Portlanders' involvement in initiatives advocating for children, sustainability, and other aspects of a durable local economy. Resource materials for creating similar projects in other communities were distributed.
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UU Church of Marblehead, MA: $2,500 for "Pipelines for Clean Water Distribution"
Between 1999 and 2002 violent conflict involving Christian and Muslim communities took place on the Indonesian island of Halmahera. It left many women in the village of Duma the sole breadwinners for their families. It also destroyed the pipeline that supplied clean water to the village, burdening women and girls with the additional work of fetching water from a nearby lake.
Our grant will help replace the pipeline, saving these women and girls time and energy they can devote to tother activities. These include developing their new roles as community leaders, also a result of the conflict.
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Thought of the Month: February 2010
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If you ask me what office
women should fill, I reply — any . . .
Let them be sea captains, if you will.
I do not doubt that there are women
well fitted for such an office.
— Unitarian Margaret Fuller,
journalist, critic, and
women's rights activist,
born May 23, 1810.
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