Ain Leuh Weaving Cooperative – Morocco
Years: 2012-2013
Peace Fellows Deployed: 3
Mission: The Ain Leuh Weaving Cooperative was founded in the 1970s in the Middle Atlas mountains. Its goals are to provide members with an income and use weaving to preserve traditional Berber cultural heritage. Most of the cooperative’s members. and the majority of Ain Leuh’s 6,000 inhabitants identify as Amazigh (or Berber), the indigenous ethnic group of North Africa. The members are committed to Berber culture, and this comes out clearly in the patterns of the Moroccan Amizigh Quilt, which is profiled on this page.
Years: 2008-2019
Peace Fellows Deployed: 11
Mission: The Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development (CAED) works to create more just and equitable societies in remote and disadvantaged areas of Nepal. The organisation uses human rights-based awareness-raising and training programs to empower marginalized communities, focusing on women, girls, children, Dalits and indigenous persons in particular. CAED also advocates for the rights of its beneficiaries at the district, provincial and federal government levels.
Years: 2007-2009
Peace Fellows Deployed: 4
Mission: On 9th October 1991, Women in Black began a public nonviolent protest against the war; the Serbian regime’s policy; nationalism; militarism and all forms of hatred, discrimination and violence. They choose antimilitarism and non-violence as their spiritual orientation and political choice. They speak out for recognition of difference, reciprocity, respect for nature, and for development in accordance with the needs of the civil population, and not the civil and military oligarchy and their national interests.