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The Just Word Fall 2000 The Just Word The Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health & human Rights Volume V No. 2 A Project of The Funding Exchange Fall 2000 MISSION STATEMENT Martín-Baró Fund Charts a New Course Ramsay Liem The Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights was created to foster psychological well- eaders of this issue of The Just Word may notice a change. Although we being, social consciousness and active have always included information about grantees, this volume is devot- resistance in communities affected by Red virtually entirely to the work of some of our Year 2000 awardees. We institutional violence, repression, and have tried to bring the objectives and actual work of some of them more to life social injustice. We believe that the for you. This emphasis is part of a larger refocusing of our energies that com- scars of such experiences are deeply seated in both the individual and soci- mittee members adopted after nearly a year of reflection about the work of the ety and, therefore, seek to support pro- Fund. jects that explore the power of commu- In view of both the changing face of state-sponsored violence and human nity to collectively heal these wounds rights abuses that undermine mental health, and the human resources available and move forward. to the Fund to conduct its work, this extensive process of self evaluation was Through grants, networking, and tech- undertaken in preparation for our second(!) decade of operation. nical support, the Fund seeks to The main decision we made is to develop closer, mutually supportive rela- encourage the development of innova- tionships with some of our grantees. Rather than limit our contact with pro- tive, grassroots community projects jects to grant-making, as in the past, we will cultivate longer-term relationships that promote progressive social change with some groups through a variety of means. For example, for the next fund- and community mental health. In pur- suit of this mission, the Fund’s goals ing cycle (proposal deadline, March 15, 2001), we will invite proposals from a are: subset of past grantees supported by the Fund between 1998 and 2000. This ◆ To develop a holistic perspective group of two dozen projects represents all the major regions of the globe with for understanding the connections whom we have worked in the past; includes work with women, children, com- between state and institutional munities in conflict, and survivors of political, economic, and cultural violence; violence and repression, and the and includes grantees with strong track records of service. mental health of communities and As we develop these relationships, we hope to participate in public educa- individuals; tion, technical assistance and net- ◆ working, and basic solidarity work To support innovative projects that ABLE OF ONTENTS explore the power of community to to a greater extent than we were T C foster healing within individuals able to during our first ten years of MISSION STATEMENT page 1 and communities trying to recover existence. We hope this new direc- MARTÍN BARÓ CHARTS A NEW from experiences of institutional tion will appeal to you and that you COURSE page 1 violence, repression, and social will continue to be generous moral, injustice; MBF 2000 GRANT political, and financial supporters of AWARDEES: PROJECT REPORTS ◆ To build collaborative relation- the Fund. We welcome your com- INDIA, MEXICO, PALESTINE page 2-5 ships among the Fund, its grantees, ments as we begin a challenging but and its contributors for mutual OTHER 2000 AWARD GRANTEES exciting second decade of opera- education and empowerment; and PHILIPPINES, CAMBODIA, PERU, NICARAGUA, tions in the name of Ignacio KENYA page 5-6 ◆ To develop social consciousness Martín-Baró. ◆ within the United States regarding A NEW BOOK: VOICES & IMAGES: MAYA N IXIL the psychological consequences of WOMEN OF CHAJUL page 7 structural violence, repression, and YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT page 8 social injustice. The Just Word......................1 MBF 2000 Grant Awardees: Project Reports The Slum Development families below the poverty line, into fields. Sasikala’s parents reported the Society: Chennai, India groups in each village. crime to other Dalit families who In the past four months, the SDS went together with SDS staff to the (Grant Awarded $7,000) conducted six one-day leadership police station. They filed charges, Ann B. Murphy & x training programs for these women, and the police arrested the accused. Diviyanthan Benjamin whose task will be to motivate, edu- The next day, however, the cate, guide and assist the Dalits by upper caste community reacted by encouraging their sense of communi- beating Dalits and setting fire to ty, educating them about social their huts, seeking to compel the equality, and encouraging them to Dalits to withdraw charges. The raise their voices against oppression. SDS staff has provided support to The training programs focus specifi- the Dalits during this episode, and cally on: attempted to mediate with the upper ◆ Helping people understand that caste village head. human beings are more valuable In this area there is little public than material possessions; bus transportation. Due to the com- he Slum Development ◆ Protesting against injustice; munity clash between the Dalits and Society (SDS) fosters self- ◆ Teaching an ideal of democracy the upper caste, the community Testeem and human rights for through non-violence and leaders of the upper caste have set the Dalit, the “untouchable” caste, in ◆ Motivating the younger genera- fire to buses and Dalits’ huts. The Chennai, India. According to its tion to receive an education. government of Tamil Nadu has recent report, the SDS is working The SDS reports that violence requested that the upper caste peo- with funding from the Martín Baró against the Dalits continues daily. In ple refrain from this violence, but Fund in 20 villages in the the Villupuram District, for example, they have not complied and there is Thiruvannamalai district, a teen-aged Dalit girl, Sasikala, was still no public transportation. ◆ Tamilnadu, India. The SDS has raped and murdered by an upper caste organized 20 women, who are from married man while working in the FORTALEZA DE LA MUJER MAYA health through discussion and drama- made it increasingly difficult for tization of shared realities. highland communities to sustain MEXICO, CHIAPAS FOMMA, or Fortaleza de la themselves by corn farming. (GRANT AWARDED $7,000) Mujer Maya (The Strength of Mayan Illiterate and unequipped for jobs in Joan Liem and Miriam Laughlin Women) is a non-profit organization the city, these displaced Indian of Indian women in San Cristóbal de women are often exploited and n Chiapas, Mexico, with the sup- las Casas. It operates a theater troupe abused as they take on the most port of the Ignacio Martín-Baró and community center for Tzotzil and menial jobs in an effort to maintain IFund, collective workshops of Tzeltal women who work to promote their families. Mayan women are creating plays that the rights, and enhance the self-con- Petrona de la Cruz and Juanita dramatize the traumatic experiences fidence of displaced women and chil- Jugrez Espinosa, the founders of of women and children in this war- dren through workshops in theater, FOMMA, first came to San Cristóbal torn region. Written, produced, and bilingual literacy, and productive de las Casas as illiterate servants. performed by the women themselves, skills. Founded in 1994, it has attract- They learned to read and write, and these dramasZ are not only an invalu- ed worldwide attention. have since distinguished themselves able medium for public education Thousands of traumatized women as writers, actresses, and champions about the problems and needs of the and children fled to San Cristóbal in of human rights. Petrona and Juanita area, but a means of developing the last decade, after the Mexican studied bilingual education at San greater self-confidence and self- Army began razing villages in Jtzíibajom, a Mayan cultural cooper- esteem in the participants, and of response to the Zapatista uprising. ative, where they also learned to promoting community-wide mental The changing Mexican economy also continued on page 3 2......................The Just Word MBF 2000 Grant Awardees: Project Reports express their views – a privilege tradi- gram which builds confidence and endeavors. Through their stories, tionally denied to Indian women – helps to protect them from exploita- their theater and their shared experi- through writing, theater, puppetry tion. Indian women learn to read and ences, the women of FOMMA will and radio. Remembering all too well write in either Tzotzil or Tzeltal and shape a multifaceted future for their the suffering they experienced as Spanish. FOMMA provides a day children.◆ Indian children in their communities care center for their pre-school-aged *** and as single mothers in the city, they children, as well as a small stipend, so “People’s new knowledge of their formed FOMMA to share with other that mothers can attend the literacy surrounding reality carries them to a women the alternative path they dis- program rather than having to work new understanding of themselves and, covered. at menial jobs. School-aged children most important, of their social identity. The theater is at the heart of participate in a similar program on They begin to discover themselves in FOMMA’s activities. Petrona and Saturdays, an important supplement their mastery of nature, in their actions Isabel write some plays, but most to their education in the state school that transform things, in their active role often the productions are derived system, which the mothers feel is in relation to others. All this allows from group discussions and improvi- intent on cleansing them of pride in them to discover not only the roots of sations about the women’s struggles their ethnicity.
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