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Kinawataka Women Initiatives (KIWOI)- Uganda

Kinawataka Women Initiatives (KIWOI)- Uganda

Years: 2010-2014
Peace Fellows Deployed: 4

Mission: The Kinawataka Women Initiatives (KIWOI) was formed in 1998 by Benedicta Nanyonga, a retiree from the Bank of Uganda, to support and empower marginalized women in the Kinawataka slum area of Kampala. Between 1998 and 2013, the women of KIWOI took over two million straws out of the environment and turned them into attractive products.

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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.

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Years: 2008-2009
Peace Fellows Deployed: 2

Mission: WATC endeavors to build women’s framework and mobilize their energies to advocate for the rights of Palestinian women and monitor commitment with such rights in a manner consistent with national references and international covenants.

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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.