A Voice For the Voiceless

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.

The Impact of Service



"Speaking with locals and living in a country is the best way to learn about the real lives of citizens, not just the stories in the mainstream media. I will be more critical of what I read as a result of this experience. I also feel even more grateful for my education, and I feel a stronger responsibility to assist others who do not have resources or access to opportunities in their communities."

Maria Skouras (New York University) volunteered in 2011 as a Peace Fellow for eHomemakers in Malaysia.

For more 2011 feedback click here.

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Florinda Canahui Coloch







Florinda is originally from the village of Vegas Santo Domingo, Baja Verapaz. She met and married Gilberto Tecu Osorio in 2000. Florinda lives with her extended family in Pacux and weaves, beautifully, in her spare time when not taking care of their three children.

For The Río Negro Memorial Quilt, Florinda wove a textile for her husband’s aunt, Juana Tecu Osorio, who died at Pak’oxom with her two children and three siblings on March 13, 1982. Juana was only eighteen years-old at the time of her death. Her younger brother, Jesus, was enslaved at Pak’oxom by PAC soldiers from the nearby village of Xococ, and her older sister, Laura Tecu Osorio, survived as well, hidden in the mountains.

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