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.

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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. what they are but also the horizon, what to meet the challenges of living in The Mayan women of FOMMA they can become.” the city. Among these challenges are seek to ensure that their children the fear and shame felt by illiterate maintain the values of their heritage, Ignacio Martín Baró (1994), “The Role of the women confronted by the complexi- while at the same time being able to Psychologist” in Writings for a Liberation Psychology, edited by A. Aron and S. Corne ties of urban life. Therefore FOMMA participate in the mestizo world. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, also offers a bilingual literacy pro- Bilingual literacy is key to these 1994. Palestine

IBDAA CULTURAL CENTER: study, visits to villages – or the reach to other refugee camps via its remains of villages – of parents and computer and Internet facilities. BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK grandparents, and photo and video Members of the Martín-Baró PALESTINE essays to bring to life the children’s Fund were introduced to Ibdaa by (GRANT AWARDED $5,500) family and cultural roots. (See the Grassroots International, a Boston- accompanying article by Orson Moon.) based development organization that Ramsay Liem z Ibdaa in Arabic means “creating is a long-time partner of several West an a generation of youth, something from nothing.” Begun by Bank groups. What impressed us most faced with abject hopeless- several people including Ziad Abbas, during a brief meeting with Ziad Cness about their future as himself a member of the first genera- Abbas was his low-key but gripping Palestinians, meet the challenge of tion born in the Dheisheh camp, description of Ibdaa’s first youth pro- survival and even growth after a half Ibdaa has become an oasis of hope, ject, developed in response to a century of conflict – a conflict that personal and cultural awakening, and request for a group of young people appears, especially at this moment, to leadership development for second who could educate French audiences have no end? At the Ibdaa Cultural and third generation Palestinian chil- about Palestinian history, culture, Center, located in the Dheisheh dren and teenagers raised in the and aspirations. At the time, there Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, The camp. Since its founding in 1995, were no organized programs for young Martín-Baró Fund is supporting the Ibdaa has grown to include a nursery, people in the camp. The children development of an oral history pro- a kindergarten, a library, a computer were mired in poverty, virtually with- ject designed to reconnect youth and internet center, an oral history out formal education, and could not with the authentic histories of their project, a dance troupe that partici- imagine any realistic possibility for families and community, an essential pates in international cultural change in their life conditions. Ziad condition for positive mental health exchange, and a sports program. It and others asked a small group of and the confidence needed to work serves over 800 children and youth teenagers to find among themselves for a just future. The project involves and has recently begun to extend its fifteen boys and fifteen girls to continued on page 4 The Just Word...... 3 Palestine

IBDAA Cultural Center: project involved boys and girls study- about Ignacio Martín-Baró’s descrip- Bethlehem, West Bank Palestine ing, performing, and even traveling tions of the children of war through- continued from page 3 z together, the teens presented a pro- out Latin America. One of the many respond to the French request. For gram of dance, music and personal contributions of his work and life was the next year and a half, the adults story telling in France and subse- his ability to see, in an individual’s worked with this self-selected group, quently throughout Europe and the experience, the conditions of the learning the history of Palestinian United States. What struck us most, whole society – the abuses and viola- culture and displacement, discovering though, was Ziad’s description of tions, but also the possibility of dance and other performing arts their performance in the Dheisheh recovery, not only for each person, expressive of Palestinian tradition camp itself, after their return. He but for damaged social institutions and modern life, studying French in recounted the utter surprise of par- themselves. I felt that the opportuni- order to be able to communicate with ents watching their children perform- ty to support and get to know Ibdaa their hosts – and developing the ing on stage, confidently telling their would provide the Fund and its sup- sense of self-worth and confidence collective and personal stories, with a porters with deeper insight, paradoxi- needed to serve as messengers of the presence and self-confidence perhaps cally, into Martín-Baró’s vision of plight of their people. unthinkable before this experience. how human rights and mental health Though criticized by some par- The moment we heard this are inseparably linked. ◆ ents and camp leaders because the account, I found myself thinking

IBDAA Cultural Center: Bethlehem, West Bank Palestine

PERSONAL ACCOUNT: I was privileged to join a tour of Dheisheh and now coordinated Palestine and Israel sponsored by youth programs at Ibdaa. By Orson Moon z Grassroots International, an inde- Along with four young people pendent human rights and develop- from Ibdaa, Ziad took us to places in NOTE: Orson Moon is an administra- ment agency based in Boston. I had present-day Israel where residents of tive coordinator for Grassroots been doing office work for Grassroots Dheisheh, or their parents and International, an organization that for almost five years, and this was my grandparents, had once lived. As we works closely with the IBDAA Project. first opportunity to observe our work toured these sites and heard stories, it The Martín Baró Fund invited Mr. first-hand. Along with several sup- became apparent that running youth Moon to contribute a personal account porters of Grassroots and two other programs in a refugee camp carried of his experience visiting IBDAA in staff, I was there to witness the chal- difficulties beyond the obvious depri- Palestine in order to offer our readers a lenges to a just peace in Palestine vation. Each resident of the camp broader perspective of the project and its and Israel, and to meet our partners bore not only the poverty itself, but work. – people committed to this some- also the burden of historical injus- times elusive goal. tice. How would these children find he speaker was Mohammed, On this day, we were following their way to a fully realized adult- age 13, and we were standing the work of the Ibdaa Cultural hood and still be true to their fami- Ton an airy mountaintop in Center, the recipient of a recent lies, their communities, and their present-day Israel, the former site of grant from the Martín-Baró Fund. shared experience? There were no Deir al-Hawa, the Palestinian village Ibdaa, based in the Dheisheh refugee easy answers, yet it seemed they had that his grandparents fled during a camp, made its reputation organizing begun the difficult process of honest 1948 attack. Mohammed now lives effective programs for youth and negotiation with a sorrowful past. I in Dheisheh, the crowded and dusty children in the camp, ranging from could see it in their expressions, and refugee camp in Bethlehem from kindergartens to libraries to dance hear it in their voices as we left the which we had come earlier that troupes. In the morning we met villages that were once theirs and morning. with Ziad Abbas, a determined man returned to the camp. For ten days in early September, in his mid-30s, who grew up in continued on page 5

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IBDAA Cultural Center: and for the children, this was a criti- busily helping bring the place to life. Bethlehem, West Bank Palestine cal link with the outside world. It was good to see them smiling ◆ continued from page 4 z Someone, apparently, felt threatened again. by this activity, and stole the *** “When we say we want to return, Internet server and torched the other “To speak of psychosocial trauma is we do not want to throw the Israelis computers and parts of the adjoining to emphasize that trauma is produced out,” explained Ziad. “I want my library. Ziad was undeterred, howev- socially and, therefore, that understand- right to return to my village. I might er, declaring: “They destroyed the ing and resolving it requires not only not – I might decide to go to Chicago computers, but they cannot destroy treating the problems of individuals but instead. But I want to be able to the idea.” also treating its social roots, in other choose. There is enough space for us With international support, words, the traumatogenic structures or to come back if we decide to. We can Ibdaa volunteers were already setting social conditions...Psychosocial trauma all live here.” up a new computer lab in another thus constitutes the concrete crystalliza- We returned to Dheisheh and part of the camp. The new computer tion in individuals of aberrant and toured some of the youth projects, lab will occupy part of a center. As dehumanizing social relations.” including the former computer cen- this center is being built, it will also ter, which was destroyed by arsonists host youth exchange programs as From Ignacio Martín Baró (1994), “The Role two weeks before. Ibdaa set up the well as other activities. When we of the Psychologist” in Writings for a Liberation arrived at the new center, some of Psychology, edited by A. Aron and S. Corne first Internet center and the first web- Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, site of any Palestinian refugee camp, the kids from our morning tour were 1994. Additional 2000 Award Grantees

BALAY INTEGRATED REHABILITATION CENTER FOR TOTAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: ILIGAN CITY, PHILIPPINES (GRANT AWARDED $4,960) n the context of 21st Century globalization, economic policy in the Philippines is directed at establishing the country as the next newly industrialized economy in Asia. As a result, workers and peasants, in particular women, face high Irates of unemployment, displacement from agricultural self-sufficiency, increased stress in the workplace, and sexual abuse. In the Iligan area, workers are caught in the fighting between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front as well. As a past recipient of support from the Martín-Baró Fund (1995), the Balay group continues to provide psycholog- ical and social support to women and children struggling to survive these economic and military pressures. This year’s grant will enable the Center to develop an educational module to promote mental health via work- shops about mental health, training sessions on stress management, individual counseling and, most signifi- cantly, strategies for creating lasting support systems among those in need. ◆

INDRADEVI ASSOCIATION: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (GRANT AWARDED $7,000) he Indradevi Association is a grassroots organization that offers community education about sexually transmitted diseases. Its clinics, in slum areas of Phnom Penh and in nearby rural provinces, provide care to people with HIV, TAIDS, and other STDs, especially prostitutes and the very poor. It also assists patients’ families. The Indradevi Association staff are known and respected as resources in the areas in which they work. Their involvement in the com- munity has increased their awareness of the need to provide mental health services to these populations as well, given the high incidence of personal and community trauma that the people they work with experience. A grant from the Martín-Baró Fund provides money to open a counseling room where people can discuss emotional difficulties in individual and group settings with trained volunteers and staff. Moreover, funding supports the training of 15 volunteers who lead workshops in the community focusing on problem-solving skills, ways to resolve conflict and communicate effectively, and stress management. ◆

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INSTITUTO ACCION PARA EL men disappeared, women, children involves conducting “platicas” or and the elderly were often left in the talks designed to build self-esteem, PROGRESO (INAPRO): villages alone. Today, these commu- promote resiliency and educate about HUANCAVELICA, PERU. nities are struggling to rebuild them- human rights. Children’s develop- (GRANT AWARDED: $7,000) selves and their cultural identity as ment of cultural identity is also sup- they face the repercussions of war ported through workshops on making ural towns in the Andes of including poverty, psychosocial trau- traditional costumes and artwork. Peru were devastated by the ma, and fragmented families and In the second component of the pro- Rsociopolitical turmoil and vio- communities. ject, members of the community lence during the 1980’s. Entire The project, funded by the learn together how to work the land, Pueblos were destroyed as they were Martín Baró Fund, focuses on the and supplement their diets with pro- caught in the battles between the psychosocial development of women, duce from their land. The communi- extreme leftist group known as children, families, and the communi- ty profits directly from the produce as “Sendero Luminoso” (shining light) ty as a whole. There are two compo- well, and people learn valuable skills and the state’s military. Many fami- nents: the first focuses on psychologi- that will empower them and rebuild lies had to abandon their homes. As cal and cultural healing, and this a sense of community. ◆

MOVIMIENTO DE MUJERES LUCRECIA LINDO: MANACUA, NICARAGUA rights of women. More specifically, (GRANT AWARDED $7,000) their objective is to eliminate family violence and sexual abuse, and to cre- icaragua was affected by Sandanistas after the US-supported ate a climate supportive of the emo- sociopolitical turmoil for counter-revolution and economic tional healing, necessitated by these Nmore than half a century. embargo, Nicaragua has experienced abuses. With the help of its Martín The economic inequalities of the a resurgence of inequity in the distri- Baró grant, Movimiento de Mujeres Somoza dictatorship fell heavily on bution of resources. This once again Lucrecia Lindo will train community the backs of Nicaraguan women. burdens women disproportionately facilitators in techniques that promote With the overthrow of Somoza by and diminishes their political power. emotional recovery emphasizing the Sandinista revolutionary move- The Movimiento de Mujeres women’s and community perspectives. ment, 25% kof whose military was Lucrecia Lindo was established in In turn, these women will provide ser- composed of women, landmark laws 1992 in response to this return to vices to members of their respective were established that protected right wing conservatism. There are communities, meeting a critical need women from physical as well as psy- 1800 women members from 13 for mental health services that are sus- chological abuse. However, with the municipal areas of Chinandega whose tainable and designed to empower UNO coalition that replaced the main objective is to promote the whole communities. ◆

MILLENIUM OUTREACH S. H. GROUP, HOMA BAY, KENYA (GRANT AWARDED $6,924) MMM he Millennium Outreach S.H. Group is a non-political, non-religious and multi-ethnic organization of 32 people of varying backgrounds, established in 1998 to create conflict resolution with the warring ethnic communities of Tthe Luo and Kissi tribal people. These two groups were pitted against each other by politicians of different politi- cal camps, and the resulting violence and chaos has caused death, injury, disruption of families and communities, as well as poverty and economic and cultural havoc. With support from the Martín Baró Fund, the Group will educate the Kissi and Luo in the principles of multiparty democracy. To help the Kissi and Luo recognize the importance of reconciliation and human rights by, the Group will: (a) conduct ten workshops along the 100 kilometer stretch of contested border, which will bring together leaders from both communities to share sentiments and misconceptions about each other, and develop plans of action to bring about

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6...... The Just Word A NEW BOOK: Voices and Images: Mayan Ixil Women of Chajul

BOOK BY MARTÍN-BARÓ FUND GRANTEE WOMEN’S GROUP effects in their lives, their Mayan Ixil culture, women’s daily lives, and the work of ADMI as a response to the oices and Images: Mayan Ixil in Guatemala by Magna Terra, con- war and its effects. Textual discus- Women of Chajul, a book in tains photographs and text by 20 sion of each picture appears in both Vboth Spanish and English ADMI women who participated in a Spanish and English. Each page car- with accompanying photos, is the project called PhotoVoice, a name ries titles in Spanish, English and in outcome of a joint collaboration borrowed from University of Ixil, the mother tongue for most of between The association of Mayan Michigan scholar Carol Wang’s work the project participants. An intro- Ixil Women - New Dawn (ADMI), a with rural women in China who used ductory chapter by Lykes describes group of more than 100 women liv- photography to document their this cross-cultural, cross-national col- ing in a rural community in the health needs. The ADMI women laboration. U.S. scholar and activist Altiplano of Guatemala that has used the methodology to document Joan W. Williams, Ph.D., and received support from the Martín- the effects of the war and political Spanish psychologist M. Luisa Baró Fund, and M. Brinton Lykes, repression on themselves, their fami- Cabrera participated in the field pro- long- time Martín-Baró Fund sup- lies, their community and its sur- ject. Cathy Mooney, Ph.D., another porter and Coordinating Committee rounding towns. First, each woman long time Martín-Baró Fund support- member. took a roll of 20 photographs. From er and Coordinating Committee In 1992, the Martín-Baró Fund these, each selected three to five pho- member, revised the Spanish text and provided a grant to ADMI when they tos around which she wove a story, translated it into English. identified the need for a corn mill. based both on the information gath- All proceeds from sale of the Their community had few mills and ered from the people in the photo- book go to ADMI. The book is the women saw the opportunity to graph and on her own interpretations available from EPICA in develop, manage and run their own of the social reality represented. Washington, D.C. mill as a way to generate support for These analyses were then submitted ([email protected]) for $25. It is their developing organization. This to wider group analyses in which also being distributed in Guatemala organization, with which Lykes had members of the project collaborative- and in South Africa and will soon be collaborated, was formed to respond ly sought to clarify causes and effects available in numerous local book- to women and child survivors of the of the violence, as well as solutions stores in the United States. Please long-term civil war in Guatemala. towards the future. forward suggestions of magazines, The corn mill funded by the Martín- This iterative process of collec- journals or newspapers that might be Baró Fund was a resounding success. tion and analysis continued for two interested in reviewing the book to It built the women’s self-esteem and years. During the second year, the [email protected] or to the helped launch ADMI on a trajectory women concentrated on winnowing Martín-Baró Fund and request your the women discuss in text and illus- through their analyses and pho- local bookstore to carry it. ◆ trate with photos in the fourth chap- tographs and organizing them into ter of Voices and Images. the four book chapters. These focus The 120-page volume, published on the civil war’s violence and its

Millenium Outreach S. H. Group, Homa Bay, Kenya continued from page 6 a lasting change in attitude and behavior that recognizes human dignity; (b) establish ten counseling centers along that border, offering counseling and services to those affected by the ethnic violence; (c) set up ten action groups consisting of members from each group to monitor the observation of resolutions reached at the workshops; and (d) advocate for peace and tolerance between the two ethnic communities. An estimated 100,000 people will be affected by the project. ◆

Editor: Lisa R. Jackson, Ph.D.. Assistant Editors: Ann B. Murphy and Ben Achtenberg. Letters, inquiries, contributions, etc. can be sent to: Martín-Baró Fund, P.O. Box 2122, Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130 Checks for tax-deductible contributions must be made out to the Funding Exchange/ Martín-Baró Fund. Thank you!

The Just Word...... 7 Your Continued Support ◆ Please Give Generously

he only reason the Martín-Baró Fund has been able to make over six dozen awards during its first decade of existence is the generous financial support people like you have given us. This year-end appeal is Textremely important because we will not be hosting our annual event this fall, which serves as a major fundraiser for our grant-making. Our plan is to organize a spring program that can feature some of the activities of this years’ grantees by bringing project staff and/or audio/visual presentations of their work to Boston. This decision is very much in line with the new direction our committee has charted for the Fund and would create an opportunity for sup- porters like you to learn even more about the groups with whom we are working. So, PLEASE, think about us when you are planning your year-end contributions. Over 95% of what you contribute will be used for direct support of and work with grantees; a claim we doubt any other organization like the Martín-Baró Fund can make. If we are going to be successful in the new millennium, we MUST be able to count on your willingness to be in solidarity with the values and commitments of Ignacio Martín-Baró, the groups around the world who are putting his ideas into action, and the Fund that embodies his spirit. Use the enclosed envelope to make your contribution, which is tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Thank you for your continued support. ◆

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