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The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

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Goals

ADIVIMA and AP are working together to support the communities affected by the Río Negro massacres and the construction of the Chixoy Dam. The quilt is a memorial to all who were murdered in the 1982 massacres. This partnership has the following goals:

  • Develop a series of textiles to commemorate all 477 people who died in the Río Negro massacres in Guatemala between 1979-1982
  • Raise awareness of the Río Negro massacres and the plight of the 13,000 people affected by the construction of Chixoy Dam
  • Support the Chixoy Dam reparations campaign through outreach events with the Río Negro Memorial Quilt
  • Support Lik Chom weaving cooperative and economic development projects in the  twenty-eight communities affected by Chixoy Dam
  • Raise awareness of ADIVIMA’s work on behalf of widows and survivors of the Río Negro massacres
  • Encourage advocacy around the quilt that will bring the intellectual actors responsible for the massacre to justice 


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