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A Voice For the Voiceless

The Advocacy Project (AP) recruits students to help marginalized communities tell their story and claim their rights.

About The Advocacy Project

The Advocacy Project (AP) is a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, DC, with a field office in Kampala, Uganda. AP secured non-profit status in July 2001.

Our mission is to produce social change by helping marginalized communities claim their rights. This is done by partnering with advocates that represent these communities. We believe strongly that change is best achieved by those who are most directly affected.

AP engages partners directly through its fellowship program, which recruits graduate students from North America and Europe (Peace Fellows) to volunteer with AP’s partners. Most Peace Fellows will be deployed for three months to help their hosts to tell their story in a compelling manner – the first requirement of advocacy. The second phase of AP’s support involves helping partners to develop information tools. Finally, we help partners to develop campaigns, through fundraising and outreach.

By the end of this process, partners should be making inroads into the cause of disempowerment. This, to AP, is the start of social change. AP’s model of support for partners is explained in the following pages and in the section on services.

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