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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 "I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya." Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa. For more 2009 feedback click here.

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Produce information

This service is offered to all AP partners. It seeks to help disempowered communities tell their story through photos, video and the written word. This service is particularly valued by advocates that are prevented from putting out a message, because of censorship or discrimination. AP has also found that profiling partners gives them encouragement to campaign for social change and connects them to donors. This service seekes to produce several outputs within 3 months, and is provided through a Peace Fellow.

1. Create demand for information and build the partnership

Goals: Help partners to understand the benefits from information, explain the different services and timeframe offered by AP, and help them to think through the outlines of a social justice campaign. This process will start as soon as a Fellow arrives.

2. Profile the partner organization

Goals: Put a face to disempowerment and define the challenge by producing:

Blogs: Each Fellow will produce a minimum of 10 blogs during the summer. A digest of their blogs will be published regularly through the summer through AP’s news service.

Profiles of Stakeholders: Each Fellow will produce profiles (photo/video/text) for the partner’s website or partner page on the AP site.

Photos: Fellows will post their best photos to the partner's website or the AP Flickr library.

Video films: Fellows will post short video profiles to the partner's website.

Written content for press releases, Facebook, AP bulletins etc

3. Research - and Advocacy profile

Goals: Help AP partners to explain the challenge of disempowerment and the partner’s response and needs; identify future campaign goals; provide information for donors; identify possible areas for intervention by friends, including AP. This profile will be available for posting on the partner’s website or AP partner page and he shared with potential donors and allies.

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