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MAMA CASH ANNUAL REPORT 2007

(she changes the world) 4.30 AM 10 AM WOMEN WAKE UP THE WORLD ANNUAL REPORT 2007 2 PM MAMA CASH 8 PM 3.30 AM “Boss of my womb”

MAMA CASH SUPPORTS pioneering initiatives by women worldwide that aim to bring about a peaceful and just world where women are free to make their own choices, develop their talents and skills, and help shape the future of our societies.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Partners in Change 8 . A conversation between Marjo Meijer and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Co-chairs of the Mama Cash Board

Mama Cash is for Women’s Rights 10 . A message from Nicky McIntyre, Mama Cash’s New Executive Director

Women wake up the world 12 . Economic Justice – Wise up 14 . Agency and Participation – Up and coming 18 . Peace and Security – Waking up communities 22 . Arts, Culture and Media – A light to write by 26 . Bodily Integrity – A new life 30

Alliance 34 . Twenty-four hours a day

Social Activist Philanthropy 40

Mama’s Cash 42 . Abbreviated Financial Report

Meet Mama Cash 48 . Board, Advisory Council, Staff, Volunteers, Founders

Institutional and Corporate Donors 49

Mama Cash Supports Women’s Groups 50

Mama Cash Supports Women’s Funds 56

More information or donate to Mama Cash 57 8 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Marjo in Amsterdam and Anastasia in New York got together over the Internet to talk about 2007 and what lies ahead.

Marjo: 2007 has been a unique year in the history of Mama Cash. We could call it a “year of transition,” but it has been so much more than that.

Anastasia: What could we call it? A year of opening? We are opening all of the doors and windows!

Marjo: We want to know: “Who is Mama Cash, now?” We are examining all the old assumptions. How daring are we? How effective are we? How efficient are we?

PARTNERS IN CHANGE Anastasia: What is our theory of change? How can we expand our partnerships around the world and more strongly support A conversation between Marjo Meijer and emerging trends in women’s human rights work? Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Co-chairs of the Mama Cash Board Marjo: I think that the internationalization of our Board has been the key catalyst. Now, five new members of the Board live and work outside the Netherlands. This has brought fresh perspectives. In 2007 we really began to reap the rewards of this change.

Anastasia: I agree. With our new Board, we have created an opportunity to rethink who we are. It’s a bit hard to report on the results of this as we are still in the middle of our strategic planning process for 2009-2013. But I can say that the Board feels very enthusiastic and committed to bringing Mama Cash to a whole new level of international presence and professionalism.

Marjo Meijer (left) and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck (right) 9

Marjo: The work of 2007, and now continuing into 2008, is going pleased that Nicky has been able to step so gracefully into the to allow us to leverage the increased capacity and expertise of role of Executive Director, as of May 2008. our Board to get more support from both individual and institu tional funders. Anastasia: I really want to emphasize that while Mama Cash is definitely growing—in knowledge, reach and impact—we are not Anastasia: That is so important because, as we know, the changing our core values. Our core business is to be effective in funding situation for women’s organisations worldwide is worsening. mobilizing resources to further women’s rights internationally and More than fifty percent of women’s groups are reporting that they to be effective in our giving. have less funding than they did several years ago, and nearly two-thirds are finding it more difficult to raise money. Marjo: Yes. We are supporting women’s rights movements. That’s our core mission. Let’s remember that the movement as a Marjo: Yes, Mama Cash and other foundations provided start-up whole is changing. A more diversified and larger group of funding for the 2007 European Feminist Forum. But the remaining women’s organisations is applying to Mama Cash. The movement money could not be found, and the Forum had to be cancelled. for women’s rights is growing. It has become more focused on This raises real red flags for regional women’s movements. building partnerships and networks regionally and internationally. Now we are getting many more applications from groups who Anastasia: The continuing presence of Dutch and other European discover us via their partner networks and the Internet. Our Board members serving as spokespersons and fundraisers within challenge is to make the right choices. the European context is absolutely central to meeting this challenge. Mama Cash is unique in her dual focus of supporting Anastasia: The women’s movement is also recognizing the the movement both at home and internationally. contributions of younger women. There is tremendous dynamism in the international women’s community right now. Marjo: We are responding to the crisis in funding for women’s groups by increasing our support to women’s organisations Marjo: The movement is moving, and so are we! around the world. Internationally, we awarded almost 2.8 million Euros in direct grants—30% more than in 2006. Internally, we Anastasia: I am looking forward to what we will have to say in took a big leap this past year, hiring Nicky McIntyre from the next year’s annual report. Mama Cash will be celebrating its Global Fund for Women as our Director of Development and twenty-fifth year. Twenty-five is the age when fresh, bold moves Communications. Nicky created a highly innovative, combine with experience and maturity. The deep self-examination community-building programme at the Global Fund. She is one of and strategic planning work we are doing now will be coming to the most successful fundraisers in the movement. We’re also very fruition. So, stay tuned! 10 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 MAMA CASH IS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS A message from Nicky McIntyre, Mama Cash’s New Executive Director

I send warm wishes from the permanent change for everyone by percent of groups had budgets of Netherlands to the Mama Cash improving the lives and status of less than 50,000 US dollars, and of community worldwide! I hope to women. these, the majority had budgets of have the opportunity to get to less than 10,000 US dollars. know many more of you – our Mama Cash gives grants to those friends and supporters – soon. who are largely ignored by more This emphatically tells us that Mama mainstream foundations. We fund Cash’s strategy of giving relatively I grew up in Scotland, and I come to groups that support, empower and modest grants can have a big impact Mama Cash after twenty years of advocate for women in conflict on the majority of women’s organi- living and working in the United zones, disabled women, lesbian sations, whose budgets are small. States. Most recently, I served as women, indigenous women, the Vice President of Development domestic workers and sex workers. However, it also tells us that and Communications at the Global women’s organisations need to find Fund for Women. Mama Cash funds movement- a way to grow. This is why we are building. We know that mobilizing starting to give larger, “stepping All of us at Mama Cash would like to larger numbers of women to work stone” grants to help women’s express our appreciation for our collaboratively means having a groups build capacity, reach and out- going Executive Director, much bigger impact on women’s influence. Hanneke Kamphuis. We wish her rights globally. This past year, we every success and happiness in her helped to fund Resisting Finally, Mama Cash is deeply new life. Globalization, the first-ever Mexican committed to developing a strong regional meeting aimed at women’s funding community 2007 has welcomed in a period of enhancing collaboration among through our support of women’s extremely creative self-examination social movements of peasants, foundations. Once an isolated few, for Mama Cash. So it is a good time indigenous women, labour unions, now there are over twenty women’s to remind ourselves of our core sex workers, domestic workers, funds worldwide. Women’s values and activities. As we work on disappeared relatives and the foun dations are emerging as a our strategic plan for the coming five feminist movement. critical source of funding for years, these will remain with us, international women’s movements. guiding us forward. 2007 is also the year when the In fact, they were the most Association for Women’s Rights in often-mentioned source of support Mama Cash gives money to support Development—AWID—released its for women’s groups in the AWID women’s rights movements second “FundHer” report on the report. We are proud to be in the worldwide. We give small- to financial status of women’s forefront, helping younger, sister mid-sized grants to grassroots movements worldwide. organisations to lead the way. organisations, as well as to those working on policy changes at One thousand two hundred I feel it is a great honour and a national levels. Increasingly, we are women’s groups were surveyed—a privilege to be serving as Mama being asked to support regional highly significant number. The survey Cash’s Executive Director at this networks and the growing number uncovered the fact that sixty-five moment. As noted by our Board of women’s funds. Nicky McIntyre Co-chairs, Mama Cash has entered into a time of self-evaluation and What makes us different from other change. We are striving to have a foundations and aid organisations? greater impact on more women’s lives. We are reaching for a new Mama Cash funds women’s groups level of professionalism. We are that are based on a deep sharpening our vision. Although we understanding of the social and must all work hard, inspiration and political roots of the oppression of opportunity are abundant. We know women. We fund groups that are that, as we grow, we will remain just fighting to effect fundamental, as innovative, creative and bold. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 11

In 2007, Mama Cash invested € 2,784,876 in 250 grants to 213 different women’s groups and women’s funds worldwide. 12 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Women wake up the world

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She wakes up and carries water before dawn. Soon it will be time to gather for the women’s labour demonstration. Far away, in a nation at war, a young woman accompanies an older woman to court. The elder woman will be one of the first in her country to give testimony about the violence. In another country, she finally finishes her work. Tied around her waist is the money she will deposit in the bank later today. The other women will follow her example and open their own accounts. All over the world, women activists are waking up their families, their neighbours and their governments to the real conditions of women’s lives. They are educating themselves and their communities about regional and international human rights laws. They are organising to stop violence against women in war time and to win economic justice for women workers in the factories and the fields. They are leading peace-making efforts and sitting at the world’s policy-making tables. During 2007, young women activists energized the women’s movements in their countries with fresh thinking and bold actions. More women worked together in regional, national and international networks. More women created and implemented joint strategies to secure women’s rights. More women used new forms of communication to get their messages across. More women insisted that international and regional human rights laws be enforced. Mama Cash is proud to have supported 213 women’s groups in 71 countries around the world during 2007. On the pages that follow, you can read the stories of some of these groups and about how women are becoming more effective at waking up the world as a result. In 2007, Mama Cash gave grants ranging from € 375 to € 50,858. 14 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 15 4.30 AM Wise up Women are equal (at least) to men.

Economic Justice She wakes up in the dark. Her family is still sleeping. Outside, the air is cold. She pulls her shawl close. Pumping water from the well, she and her neighbours speak more quietly than usual. One woman laughs boldly, and the tension breaks. What will today’s demonstration be like? Will anyone listen to their demands for equal opportunity and wages at the rubber plantation? She is the one who volunteered when the organisers asked for someone to lead the women of her village on this day. She says: Yes! They will listen if we stick together.

At the edge of the village, the sun streaks the dark sky with pale orange. The women wake their families and prepare the morning meal. Soon it will be time to walk to the plantation. They are excited, scared and determined. 16 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Economic Justice CROSS Kerala, India

WE CROSS LEADERS are from CROSS is an emerging women’s the same community and our labour rights group. In one year, mothers and sisters are still with only four members, the working at the rubber tapping group has surveyed and plantations. It was our organised women working in long-cherished desire when we ten rubber plantations in the were students that we shall do Trivan drum district. The something for our own women are asking for equal community where thousands of wages and hours, to be allowed women are being exploited. to tap the rubber, and to receive There are six main steps involved the same benefits as male in taking rubber sap. The first workers. step – with a knife peeling the This fall, CROSS organised a skin from the tree – has been demonstration. More than the work of men for decades. 4,000 woman plantation The reason could be the “knife,” workers participated. In the the symbol of power, or that it is wake of the demonstration and the easiest work compared to widespread media attention, the rest of the process. Any representatives of the Ministry of healthy woman could do it. Labour met with CROSS leaders. The other five steps are Negotiations to address the considered simple and meant women’s demands have begun. for women. For tapping one CROSS subsequently forged an tree, a man is paid 20 paise. For alliance with women’s doing the rest of the work, a organisations throughout Kerala woman is paid 10 paise per tree. so that a state-wide demand for The logic is, as the men workers economic justice can be made to say, “we are men and they are the Ministry of Labour. They are women.” now collaborating to gather statistical information about the numbers and working conditions Small grants of women in the state. make big change. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 17

Day Break The percentage of women entering the workforce continues to rise worldwide. International agreements, and national laws in many countries, grant economic rights to women. But lack of economic opportunity, pay equity and education persist alongside precarious working conditions. Labour migration, cultural practices and globalization all complicate the challenges to securing real economic justice for women. In the face of both opportunity and challenges, women are collaborating, In Uganda: St. Francis mobilizes In Israel: Kayan educates advocating and unionising. women and counsels them to Palestinian women in Israel exercise their rights to about their entitlements and Economic justice continues inherit land and property. how to access Israeli social to be a major focus of Mama benefits and financial Cash’s grantmaking In China: Across several new institutions so that they can worldwide. In 2007, we initiatives, Mama Cash is empower themselves and responded vigorously to fund supporting the education and overcome poverty. a growing number of mobilisation of women initiatives designed to protect factory workers. Project In Yemen: Unidom is and expand women’s labour organisers are not sanctioned producing a film: Young and rights, improve working by the Chinese government Invisible: African Domestic conditions and increase and must infiltrate worker Workers in Yemen. This women’s access to public dormitories at night in order documentary film will be services. We funded to inform women of their used as an organising tool to programmes that are right to safety and legal improve the working and life stimulating women’s ability protections and to educate conditions of migrant to exercise their economic them about organising. domestic workers. rights, such as the right to (Organisation names own and inherit land and withheld.) property and have equal access to financial resources and mainstream financial institutions. 2007: € 323,739 granted to 34 women’s economic justice initiatives in 19 countries. 18 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 19 10 AM Up and coming Women’s participation is not optional.

Agency and Participation She feels grateful to have found a mentor. Her teacher inspires every woman to know her rights and stand up for them. Each morning at the center in Marrakech, she listens to the stories of women who have been battered, women who have been denied, women who are fighting back. She has accompanied women to court for the first time to demand justice. She has learned to teach women about their rights in gardens, cafes, baths, at the hairdressers and in the shops. She has faced the fears of parents whose daughters want to join this movement. She is young, and she is never turning back. 20 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Agency and Participation El Amane Marrakech, Morocco

WE ARE YOUNG WOMEN El Amane is a growing, young ACTIVISTS working with ten voice in Morocco. They have associations around Marrakech. created a network of grassroots We travel to the villages and rural and urban women’s teach women about family associations in the area of planning and HIV/AIDS. We Marrakech. El Amane trains encourage rural women’s members of the association to associations to discuss the collectively advocate for human rights of women women’s human rights at the according to the 2004 family local, regional and international law. This law grants women levels. The training includes equal rights within marriage media skills and and the right to divorce. We go organisational and leadership wherever women are: to the development. Association shops, the hairdressers, the leaders also learn to hold baths. We are developing workshops for village women centers that provide legal with the dual purpose of counseling for women victims educating women about their of sexual abuse, exploitation human rights and getting more and slavery. We are mostly women involved as advocates young volunteers being trained and trainers. how to advocate for women’s By funding young women’s human rights. initiatives, Mama Cash is Women in Morocco are contributing to the rejuvenation breaking the culture of silence. of the women’s movement. The They have ideas about human participation of young women rights. They are taking means that our movement will collective action to demand continue to thrive. their rights. Women are trying to be financially independent. Women are raising awareness Young women about their right not to be abused and are learning the steps to seek justice for are agents of themselves. change. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 21 Fresh Movements Around the world, women are getting training and are standing up to demand their rights. Women are taking their places as recognized shapers of their own lives, of their communities, and of nations and cultures. Women are rising up to meet the law and make sure it is enforced, that it serves them well and serves everyone. This is a start from below, not from the top down. This kind of social change will last.

Nearly every grant proposal that Mama Cash received in 2007 included objectives for increasing the individual and collective participation of women. Women everywhere are resoundingly raising their voices, joining together and taking the lead.

In Taiwan/China: The Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters has convened nine activist social groups and organisations, including labour unions and women’s groups, to engage in a collaborative effort to decriminalize sex work and build movement leadership among sex workers.

In Europe: The Philippine women's network, Babaylan, is building the joint capacity of Philippine migrant women’s organisations in ten European countries to work for more humane and migrant-friendly immigration laws. 2007: € 761,475 granted to 71 agency and participation initiatives in 42 countries. In Georgia: The Gori Disability Club trains disabled sexual minorities to protect their rights and contribute to prevention of discrimination and violence against them. 22 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 23 2 PM Waking up communities Making change takes courage.

Peace and Security She is afraid to go outside, even in the middle of the day after the curfew ends. But she goes. Her daughters are being schooled at home because of the attacks. Her husband said he would leave if she told anyone what had happened. But she told. She still feels pain inside where the men broke into her womb. She told about that, too, right in front of the camera, for the testimony. She no longer wants to hide. She wants other women to know, to learn about their rights and take action, and take heart. 24 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Peace and Security Rural Women Peace Link Mt. Elgon armed conflict area, Kenya

WE WANT OUR ENTIRE Rural Women Peace Link is a COMMUNITY AND ITS network of 500 grassroots LEADERS TO UNDERSTAND women’s organisations that rape, abduction, and operating in Kenya at the border defilement are human rights of Uganda where there are violations. These are not long-standing ethnic conflicts. inevitable happenings in RWPL mediators are attempting conflict situations. The police to broker a peaceful settlement. kept denying that there were Nearly a third of those living in rapes, some committed by the Mt. Elgon area have already security personnel. The com- been displaced, and the rape munity members also – with the and torture of women is exception of a few courageous commonplace. ones – continued to deny these Rural Women Peace Link has acts because it is against our galvanized the entire range of culture to talk about rape. The community stakeholders. victims were afraid to report the A woman police officer has been matter and be abandoned by assigned to assist women and their husbands. girls reporting rapes and other Now we have filmed the attacks. Media coverage of the testimony of victims. We have issue has gone from nonexistent trained the media how to report to regular reporting and analysis. on the situation of women. We A broad alliance of advocates is are making the link between now working to sensitize the rape, defilement and women’s courts and bring cases to trial. human rights in the courts, to Hundreds of women leaders are the police and among our receiving training in how to communities. Men and women organise to stop the violence. leaders we have trained are Most importantly, for the first more outspoken. More people time, great numbers of women are reporting cases, even if they and girls are reporting the are afraid. The police are aware crimes against them. The work that there is a second voice of Rural Women Peace Link is pushing for justice. bringing about a truly significant cultural and political We fund groups shift in the area. that catalyse radical change. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 25

Seeing Clearly In Palestine: The Association Armed conflict displaces of Women's Action for Training women and children and and Rehabilitation works with vastly intensifies the young, female victims of vulnerability of women to Israeli sieges from several physical attack. As a result, marginalized villages to social, cultural and political provide them with training infrastructures are further in leadership, life skills, child eroded. For these reasons, rights, physical and eighty percent of the civilian psychological health and casualties of war are women, developing their creative and more than eighty percent skills and capabilities of the world’s refugees are through courses in media women and children. and theatre. Whenever the peace and security of women is In Papua New Guinea: threatened, all members of Women face continuing society are at risk. violence, rape and sexual harassment in post-conflict Mama Cash’s strategy in the Bougainville. Leitana Nehan area of peace and security Women’s Development Agency continues to evolve along provides gender and human with the international rights training for women women’s movement and its and girls so that they can broadening perspective on function effectively as leaders the issue. No longer narrowly and decision-makers in the defined, a gender-based peace process. peace and security analysis captures the direct In Congo: Entraide des Femmes relationship between the pour les Déshérités provides women’s safety and strength legal assistance, conflict of society as a whole. mediation, legal rights education and advocacy services to women and young girls who live on the streets, work as street vendors or as domestic workers in thirty-five villages. 2007: € 93,725 granted to 9 peace and security initiatives in 8 countries. 26 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 27 8 PM A light to write by Women have the right to define and express themselves.

Arts, Culture and Media She sits writing like mad at the kitchen table. The words of the other woman pour out. She wants to get down every word. But even more, she wants to capture the quiet maturity of the young woman sitting across from her. This is a woman whose family was left homeless during one of the apartheid government’s racist mass eviction schemes. This is a woman whose father’s biggest fear is that the elders in their church congregation of people of colour will lose their respect for him when they found out that his daughter is a lesbian. This is a woman whose story is one note in the vast song that expresses the complexity and diversity of the peoples of South Africa. 28 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Arts, Culture and Media Inclusive and Affirming Ministries South Africa

OUR PROJECT, MIRIAM IAM is an activist church that DANCING, will be the first uses media to challenge published anthology of stories, homophobic attitudes in letters, interviews and dialogues religious communities and documenting the experiences of South African society. Its lesbian, bisexual and documentary films about transgender women in South homophobia and faith have been Africa’s churches and society. distributed to clergy throughout The ages of the thirty women the country. involved in making this book The anthology, Miriam Dancing, range from twenty-five to over is an appeal, through many seventy years of age. forms of storytelling, to South In spite of positive changes in Africans and others to interact our constitution, churches and with more understanding, communities continue to compassion, respect and genuine discriminate against lesbian, acceptance. The stories of the gay, bisexual and transsexual lesbian, bisexual and people. The newly coined term transgender women in this ‘corrective rape’ is an anthology are intended, in part, understatement for the terrible to reveal that churches are often violence that is being unleashed the main perpetrators and against lesbians here. We hope instigators of hate speech that wide distribution of the against these communities. book and the certainty of media IAM plans to distribute at least attention surrounding its 6,000 copies of the book. publication will stop the trauma Miriam, the sister of Moses, was and save lives by creating a freedom-fighting, Hebrew deeper understanding of and prophet living under Egyptian empathy for women. rule. Art opens unique approaches to difficult issues. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 29

Playing for Freedom raising awareness about When art and social justice women’s rights and the lives play together, they have of diverse girls in the process the power to change of becoming women. cultures of prejudice, disenfranchisement and In Ukraine: The photography violence. Prejudice locks up exhibition of the Insight minds and hearts. Art has Human Rights Organisation is the power to free both. making visible the everyday lives of Ukrainian lesbian, Mama Cash views art and bisexual and transgender media as more than just tools people in order to break for organising and educating. stereotypes and myths and We believe that art makes demonstrate that lesbian, gay, important contributions bisexual and transgender to our movement by (LGBT) people are sisters, communicating on many brothers, mothers, friends different levels at once and and fathers. reaching into communities that would not otherwise be In India: Vacha assists girls open to hearing about living in poverty in Western women’s rights. Our India to develop their skills emphasis on art, culture and in information and media is one of the things communication technologies, that makes us unique as as well as in traditional forms grantmakers. of cultural expression. Vacha sponsors science and art fairs In the Netherlands: The that showcase the young women of the achievements of the girls and multi-cultural theatre group gain community acceptance FACE are taking the stage, for efforts to promote equity empowering themselves and in education for women.

2007: € 308,825 granted to 40 arts, culture and media initiatives in 26 countries. 30 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 31 3.30 AM

Women areA the experts new life on what is best for women.

Bodily Integrity In the hours before dawn, the midwife watches a mother sleeping with a new infant girl on her belly. There have been no incisions, no cuts and no drugs to cause stronger contractions and force the birth to meet the timetables of hospitals and doctors. This mother is lucky to be giving birth now when the right to be attended by a midwife has been recognized here in Uruguay. She reflects on the great intimacy and trust with which she and mother work together. Every birth brings this same revelation. She feels enormous pride and wonder at the strength of women. 32 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Bodily Integrity Relacahupan Uruguay

WOMEN MUST PLAY THE The Relacahupan network LEADING ROLE IN THE spans twenty countries and BIRTH OF THEIR CHILDREN. involves hundreds of groups of At the beginning of activists, midwives, doctors, and Relacahupan, women other health workers. In 2002, throughout Latin America had the network was highly lost their right to decide on the instrumental in passing the handling of their pregnancies Law of Midwives in Uruguay and childbirths. The process that requires midwives be had been commodified, available to women at hospitals medicalized and intervened into and that empowers midwives to such a degree, the percentage of attend births without the births by caesarian had risen as supervision of doctors. Now the high as 40% in the public sector network is working to and near 90% in the private implement and strengthen these sector in some countries. newly won rights in Uruguay Since 2000, we of Relacahupan and other Latin American have had the opportunity to countries. work with national Relacahupan built a dynamic governments, particularly in website that now serves as the Brazil, Costa Rica, Bolivia, organising and communications Argentina, and Uruguay, to pass hub for the entire network. They laws, decrees and to make sure are building solidarity between that the humanization of traditional midwives and childbirth is carried forward. professionally trained midwives. We are helping to implement Traditional midwives are new standards of care acquiring knowledge of throughout Latin America based childbirth laws and standards- on women’s rights to be of-care. informed and involved at every Professionally-trained midwives stage of pregnancy, birth and are learning about herbs and after birth. traditional delivery practices. Relacahupan also works closely with international organisations to defend the professional and traditional role of midwives. We make grants to strategic players with the potential to create change on a larger scale. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 33

2007: € 706,121 granted to 66 bodily integrity initiatives in 37 countries.

Foundations of the Day In Portugal: Doctors Insuring women’s bodily Pro-Choice mobilized the integrity is the foundation of medical community and the women’s movement. public support for the Bodily integrity means all national referendum to women have and can exercise legalize abortion and is now their sexual and reproductive conducting training for rights, including the choice medical staff after the to have an abortion. Bodily positive outcome of the integrity means appropriate referendum. and available health care. It means freedom from In Liberia: Women Aid gender-based assault, from Liberia educated and abduction and rape. It means mobilized residents of Bomi safety for women and ending County to understand and domestic violence. It means respond to gender-based the right to make decisions violence. Monitors assigned about one’s own body. Bodily to each community reported integrity is always at issue on, and provided solutions when the issue is women’s to, cases of gender-based rights. violence. Posters, billboards, T-shirts and the organisation Globalization, armed conflict, of drama events, sports and new technologies, genetic radio messages supported the sciences, climate change and campaign. the rise of religious fundamentalism have changed the nature of the threats to women’s bodily integrity. The international women’s movement continues to explore and redefine what “counts” as violence against women and to courageously and tirelessly work to stop the violence in all of its forms.

In Lebanon: LECORVAW has mounted an education and media campaign to raise awareness among schools and non-governmental organisations about the sexual harassment of girls. 34 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 35 Twenty-four hours a day We are international movements for women’s rights.

Alliance She loves meeting so many smart, committed women. The energy is phenomenal. They have come from dozens of countries by plane, train, bus and car, sometimes at great sacrifice. She is one of the lucky ones. The travel costs for her delegation have been paid by a women’s fund. She would not be here otherwise. In her country, in her town, she must constantly watch her back. It is not safe for women activists. Just to be at the women’s conference and to be safe for this time is a great blessing. And there is so much knowledge to share. The women from her delegation are talking about it together. Here they are respected, and their wisdom is valued. 36 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 Alliance La Strada International Europe WE ARE A NETWORK OF rights and increasing women’s MEMBER ORGANISATIONS opportunities to access the in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, employment of their choice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, whether in their countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Czech origin or following emigration. Republic, Poland and the Netherlands. La Strada International is the We support those who have main voice in the European been trafficked in their efforts to context emphasizing the regain control over their lives. importance of women’s rights We inform women looking for and gender equality, labour work abroad about safe rights and the right to emigrate, migration and how to protect in the context of the trafficking themselves from harm. discussion. Governments and La Strada also works to change many NGOs often focus on the international debate about anti-prostitution and trafficking. anti-migration measures. Most anti-trafficking campaigns National policies treat warn women against the trafficking primarily as a dangers of migration instead criminal justice problem, not of empowering women workers as a human rights or women’s through increased economic rights issue. opportunity and greater Mama Cash is funding La Strada understanding of their rights. to research, design and launch a In addition, most anti-trafficking nine-country education and campaigns focus largely on media campaign to change the prostitution. But trafficking conversation about trafficking. involves many kinds of labour In addition, the campaign will in which both migrant and bring women leaders and citizen workers are exploited activists together to develop and and controlled. These include present a platform to the domestic work, sex work, international community that construction and agriculture. refocuses anti-trafficking We want more focus on the root policies on the human rights of causes. What are the economic trafficked women. and social conditions that make people vulnerable to trafficking? How can we change these to We strengthen the avoid trafficking? Trafficking is an issue of human alliances that make rights and economic justice. We the women’s want to end trafficking by promoting women’s human movement strong. Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 37

2007: € 203,848 invested in the philantropic support programme and alliance building initiatives.

An Emerging Revolution Women’s organisations worldwide are sharing, strategizing, supporting each other, linking up and taking collective action on a scale that would have been unimaginable twenty years ago. Movement leaders are Mama Cash supports In Chile: Fondo Alquimia and becoming more skillful and women’s movements in ways Angela Borba Fund in Brazil, savvy about using the media that strategically advance our both women’s funds, to communicate our core values, and we support convened fifty leaders from message, educate and the infrastructure and women’s rights organisations organise. We are witnessing relationships that are in Brazil and the Southern the emergence of a powerful, building a truly international Cone region of the Americas. new global infrastructure of women’s movement. Each The women developed relationships, knowledge and year, the number of requests strategic plans to mobilize communications that is we receive from women’s more resources and making an international organisations that are increased knowledge among movement for women’s building regional and participants about rights a reality. international networks fundraising and the role of grows. women’s foundations.

In Zimbabwe: Arts Paradise In Austria: International Center Trust convened Arise Let Your for Black Women’s Perspectives Light Shine, a pan-African organised the First Congress summit that encouraged of Black Women in Europe. young women to participate Eighty activists and leaders in all aspects of development came together to develop and to be recognized for their common strategies and contributions in whatever programmes to improve the form these take, including living conditions and cultural production. opportunities for black women and families within member states of the EU. And tomorrow... she wakes up again! 40 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

SOCIAL ACTIVIST PHILANTHROPY

Loving, giving and doing to benefit our world Mama Cash Gets Individual Donors Involved Our donors are doers. Mama Cash’s Campaign 88 Days runs from International Human Rights Day to International Women’s Day each year. During the 2007-2008 campaign, we raised 201,000 Euros for women’s groups fighting for human rights and economic justice throughout the world. The Campaign features a bathtub race down the Amsterdam canals with donations coming in the form of sponsorships of the race’s participants. The spectacle of dozens of women madly rowing down the canals in bathtubs serves as a focal point for engaging new young women in Mama Cash’s work. The Campaign website functions as a hub, giving women around the world concrete ideas and usable tools for raising awareness of women’s rights. The central message of Campaign 88 is that YOU have a role to play—not just giving money—but taking action. Our 2006-2007 Campaign 88 Days took first price in an international contest, the 2007 Best Online Donations/Fundraising Campaign Award of the ePhilanthropy Foundation. During the campaign, we raised 155,000 Euros.

Our donors are taking charge of their money. “Women, Money and Ideals” is our incredibly popular financial literacy education series for women. In 2007, 145 women attended beginner and advanced investment courses and courses in ethical and sustainable investments and micro-credits. Participants learned how to take control of their money and do more to benefit our world while making connections with like-minded women. 41

Mama Cash Puts the Activist into Mama Cash Brings Philanthropists Philanthropy into the Mix Influencing the philanthropic community to leverage more Mama Cash created a new type of donor advised resources for women’s rights is a key aim for Mama Cash. fund, the Nan Lombaers/Els Huijser Fund, in 2007. We are working hard to create a responsive community of When three women received a trust, they came to philanthropy committed to positive social change for Mama Cash. They wanted to support women’s women, both in Europe and globally. economic independence, and they wanted to learn more about our grantmaking. We brought our This past year, Mama Cash received a grant from the Ford programme officers together with the donors for an Foundation to assist us in getting the message out about exciting roundtable discussion about potential social activist philanthropy and the vital importance of grantees. Donors were able to ask questions about women’s organisations and funds. As a member of the our grantmaking, and our programme staff got to meet European Foundation Centre (EFC), we brought some of our savvy and caring donors. The upshot? discussions of women’s organisations and diversity to the Twelve grants were approved, including a grant to largest European body of public, private and institutional Enterprising Women Unlimited (EWU), a new women’s foundations. Mama Cash contributed to the scholarship group in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. EWU has fund for the 2007 annual EFC conference. Last year’s formed because a majority of low income women in conference was attended by 600 delegates. Our Dehradun work as domestic workers and labourers. contribution enabled the Slovak-Czech Women's Fund to The women are unorganised and work for very low send its Slovakia director to the conference. We were host wages. They do not have much opportunity to move to to three conference sessions and presented on two better jobs. With assistance from Mama Cash’s new panels. We also participated in other events of funders, donor advised fund, the Nan Lombaers/Els Huijser such as the U.S. Council on Foundations’ meeting in Fund, the EWU is establishing a crèche, a vocational Seattle, Washington. training programme and an employment centre, as well as a free health clinic.

Women’s funds have become a critical financial resource for women’s rights activists and organisations. Mama Cash provided 590,989 Euros to women’s funds in 2007. We are now supporting nineteen national and regional Women’s Funds around the world. We are impressed by the innovative ways in which women’s funds are fostering communities of donors and grantees and are working to bring new women into philanthropy. Semillas, the only Mexican women’s fund, created a series called “Dialogues between Women”. The Fund invited artists, writers and women leaders to talk about the importance of women giving to women. The campaign emphasized that women of all backgrounds and incomes have common concerns and can stand side-by-side to win women’s rights. 42 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Income MAMA’S CASH In 2007, Mama Cash received a total income of € 4,8, a 3.9% Abbreviated Financial Report increase over 2006. Income from own fundraising increased by 21% to almost € 3,4 million as compared to 2006. The net During 2007, Mama Cash spent € 3,9 million income from own fundraising, after deduction of fundraising on Grantmaking, a 30% increase over 2006. costs, amounted to € 2,7 million in 2007. Own fundraising costs In total, we supported 250 women’s projects came out at 22% of own fundraising. and programmes and made 33 contributions to women’s funds. The number of donors has increased by 26% since 2006. Funding from private foundations continues to grow. In 2007, contributions increased by 40% from € 1,4 million in 2006 to € 2,0 million. The income from donor advised funds increased to the value of € 360,500, a 477% increase over 2006.

Despite this, we did not meet our more optimistic budget for 2007. New relationships with public funds and companies were established, but these are still maturing and have not yet resulted in the contributions we anticipated in the 2007 budget. In addition, exchange rate fluctuation resulted in a negative impact on contracts received and funds held by Mama Cash in US dollars and British Pounds.

Summary of income

6,000,000

5,000,000 Other income

Public foundations 4,000,000

Governments 3,000,000 Corporate funds

Inheritances & legacies 2,000,000

Donor advised funds 1,000,000 The complete annual accounts for 2007 are Private foundations available upon request. Individual donations 0 2005 2006 2007 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 43

Expenditure Investment Policy In 2007, Mama Cash spent a total of € 5,3 million. € 3,9 million The companies and investment funds in which Mama Cash was spent on Grantmaking. Of the total Grantmaking expenses, participates are selected carefully, based on the principle of 2.8 million was spent on direct grants, a 30% increase over 2006. responsible investment, which is a priority of Mama Cash. Use is also made of the criteria maintained by the Algemene Spaarbank During 2007, five decision rounds took place. Two hundred and Nederland (ASN) when assessing companies. Mama Cash aims fifty grants were awarded, including 33 grants to women’s funds. to achieve a balance between profit and risk in its investment The increase in expenditure on Grantmaking between 2006 and portfolio. The investment portfolio consists of shares and bonds. 2007 came mostly from increased Grantmaking for Africa, the The shares are quoted at the stock exchange. During 2007, the Middle East, the Maghreb and Europe. 8.5% Netherlands 1992-2007 bonds, with a nominal value of € 200,000 matured and became repayable. These funds have The Philanthropic Support Programme aims to persuade donors been deposited on an ASN deposit account upon request of the and philanthropic organisations to invest more in women’s rights. donor and with consent of the Board. The total value at the In 2007, more emphasis has been given to the objective of this investment portfolio at the end of 2007 is € 925,787. programme, and thus it accounts for 4% of overall expenses. Expenditures for Visibility and Awareness Raising supported Asset Policy advocacy for Mama Cash’s core objectives with the ultimate aim The freely disposable capital serves as a guarantee for the of changing attitudes and behaviours. continuity of the organisation. The policy is directed in such a way that the freely available capital amounts to a minimum of one The 2007 financial year closed with a deficit of € 624,862 caused year’s total coverage of the executive costs of the Mama Cash mainly by slower than anticipated growth in income as described foundation’s own organisation. For the designated funds the above. During 2007, Mama Cash decided to continue planned usage of the funds has been established. The Board decided to growth in Grantmaking and to finance this with reserve funds. use part of the free disposable capital to allocate to Grantmaking The contribution from the reserves for 2007 was somewhat less and management costs this year. Mama Cash’s continuation than the positive result of 2006 (€ 646,605), which had been reserve amounted to € 923,007 at the end of 2007. The added to the reserves last year. designated funds have increased from € 662,063 in 2006 to € 747,809 in 2007. This is mainly caused by an increase in the designated fund assets and the donor advised funds.

Division of expenditures Grantmaking programme amounts per region

700,000

4% 600,000 13% 500,000 10% 400,000

300,000

73% 200,000

100,000

0 Africa States Caribbean the Maghreb of Independant Western Europe Middle East and actual 2007 the Netherlands/ Grantmaking programme Fundraising the Commonwealth Asia and the Pacific Visibility and Awareness Raising Philantropic Support programme Eastern and Europe actual 2006 Latin America and the 44 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Balance as of 31 December 2007 All amounts in Euros 31-12-2007 31-12-2006 Assets Tangible fixed assets 92,607 53,100 Investments 925,787 1,143,679 Receivables 552,325 955,757 Liquidities 1,193,180 1,521,014

Total Assets 2,763,899 3,673,550

Liabilities Free disposable capital: - Continuation reserve 923,007 1,433,614 - Reserve for 25 years anniversary 0 200,000

Free disposable capital total 923,007 1,633,614

Invested capital: - Designated fund assets 92,607 53,100 - Designated funds 443,682 482,315 - Donor advised funds 211,520 126,648

Invested capital total 747,809 662,063

Capital and reserves total 1,670,816 2,295,677

Provisions: - Long-term sick leave provisions 17,654 47,718

Long-term debts 280,531 367,984 Short-term debt 794,898 962,171

Total loan capital 1,075,429 1,330,155

Total Liabilities 2,763,899 3,673,550 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 45

Statement of income & expenditure as of 31 December 2007 All amounts in Euros Actual 2007 Budget 2007 Actual 2006 Income Income from own fundraising Donations: - incidental gifts 370,815 150,000 237,762 - regular gifts 175,526 375,000 191,411 - periodic gifts 433,877 750,000 412,867 - inheritances 1,000 100,000 315,691 - donor advised funds 360,500 61,500 62,500 - private foundations 1,962,245 1,950,000 1,404,752 - corporate funds 95,000 285,000 186,000 minus: gift tax -10,349 -11,500 -14,207 Total income from own fundraising 3,388,614 3,660,000 2,796,776

Costs of own fundraising - Direct fundraising costs 180,362 213,000 111,185 - Operational costs own organisation 558,734 524,838 388,434

Total costs of own fundraising 739,096 737,838 499,619 (as % of income from own fundraising) 22% 20% 18%

Available from own fundraising 2,649,518 2,922,162 2,297,157

Subsidies governments & public foundations - Governments 900,000 900,000 900,000 - Public foundations 445,980 1,140,000 716,186 Total government & public foundations 1,345,980 2,040,000 1,616,186

Other revenues - Result on investments -179 10,000 97,228 - Other income 29,504 5,000 77,027 Total other revenues 29,325 15,000 174,255

Total available for objectives 4,024,823 4,977,162 4,087,598

Expenditure related to objectives Grantmaking programme Africa 435,369 550,000 263,354 Asia and the Pacific 354,283 600,000 368,148 Latin America and the Caribbean 484,245 625,000 543,635 Middle East and Maghreb 593,853 450,000 363,921 Central and Eastern Europe 284,063 360,000 246,500 Commonwealth of Independent States 316,439 190,000 232,206 The Netherlands/Western Europe 296,804 300,000 148,139 International & regional 60,305 100,000 0 Programme implementation costs 1,088,844 877,413 811,846 Total Grantmaking programme 3,914,205 4,052,413 2,977,749

Philanthropic support programme Own activities 42,970 230,000 52,012 Programme implementation costs 160,878 50,000 0 Total Philanthropic support programme 203,848 280,000 52,012

Visibility & Awareness raising Own activities 226,349 337,000 219,962 Programme implementation costs 305,283 259,929 191,271 Total Visibility & Awareness raising 531,632 596,929 411,233

Total spent on objectives 4,649,685 4,929,342 3,440,994 Result -624,862 47,820 646,604 46 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Breakdown of Result Budget 2008 All amounts in Euros All amounts in Euros 2008

The result was arrived at as follows: Revenue Income own fundraising Free disposable capital - incidental gifts 420,000 Withdrawal: - regular gifts 210,000 - Continuation reserve -510,607 - periodic gifts 490,000 - Reserve for 25 years anniversary -200,000 - inheritances 250,000 - donor advised funds 450,000 Invested capital minus: gift tax -4,200 Addition: - private foundations 2,086,100 - Designated fund assets 39,507 - corporate funds 110,000 - Designated funds 516,625 - public funds 315,000 . Oxfam-Novib Total own fundraising revenue 4,326,900 . PSO . Barrow Cadbury Trust Subsidies governments . Nike Foundation - government 1,110,000 . Hivos Total subsidies governments 1,110,000 . Oak Foundation . Sigrid Rausing Trust Other revenues . Anonymous foundation/ Return on investments 50,000 KBFUS Other revenues 10,000 . Maria Willard Fund Total other revenues 60,000 . Nan Lombaers/ Els Huijser Fund Total income 5,496,900 . Anneke van Baalen/ De Bonte Was Fund Expenditures on objectives . Individual gifts Grantmaking programme - Africa 850,000 Withdrawal: - Asia and Pacific 450,000 - Designated funds -470,387 - Latin America and the Caribbean 450,000 . Anonymous foundation/KBFUS - Middle East and the Maghreb 500,000 . Nike European Operations - Central and Eastern Europe/ Netherlands BV Commonwealth of Independent States 400,000 . Maria Willard Fund - Western Europe 100,000 - The Netherlands 100,000 Subtotal Designated funds 46,238 - Other (international and cross-regional) 50,000

Result 2007 -624,862 Sub-total 2,900,000

Programme implementation costs 1,022,500

Total Grantmaking programme 3,922,500 Budget 2008 In the budget 2008, a slight increase in the Grantmaking Philantropic Support programme 360,300 programme is foreseen. The direct grantmaking will herewith increase from € 2,8 million to € 2,9 million. The management Visibility and Awareness Raising 363,300 costs of the organisation are expected to slightly decrease to Total spent on objectives 4,646,100 € 2,0 million in comparison to the actual figures of 2007. During Objectives related costs as % of total expenditure 85% 2008, a further growth of income with 16% to € 5,5 million is expected. In the planning of 2008, an investment in fundraising Costs fundraising activities has been expected. To be able to facilitate future - Costs fundraising direct 527,600 - Costs fundraising indirect 319,900 grantmaking, the retention and increase of the number of Total costs fundraising 847,500 individual donors will be imperative. A further diversification of Fundraising costs as % of total expenditure 15% the different sources of income will be the aim for 2008. Total expenditure 5,493,600 Total income 5,496,900

Result 3,300 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 47 48 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

MEET MAMA CASH

Board Staff Finance and Operations Volunteers in the Netherlands - Naima Azough (term ended June 2007) Direction - Thelma Doebar (Financial Officer) - Ellen Ambags - Carine van den Brink (Chair, term ended - Nicky McIntyre (Executive Director, - Tanja Elias (Financial Assistant) - Anna Ankoné June 2007) as of May 2008) - Titia van der Hoek (Office Manager, - Mahutin Awunou - Lin Chew - Hanneke Kamphuis (Executive Director, as of February 2008) - Marije Bijvoet - Jessica Horn till May 2008) - Marijke Marica (General Assistant) - Rinske Boersma - Leila Jaffar - Liesbeth Schipper (Executive Assistant, - Mimouna Bounnou - Eveline de Jong (Treasurer) Development and Communications as of April 2008) - Maria Breure - Jasvir Kaur - Esther Arp (Development Officer Individual - Tiny Smit (Financial Officer) - Carla Brünott - Marijke Kuijpers Giving) - Hanneke Timmer (Human Resources Advisor, - Dara Colwell - Marjo Meijer (Co-chair, as of June 2007) - Janine van Doorn (Development and as of January 2008) - Anne van der Graaf - Idelisse Malavé (as of February 2008) Communications Officer) - Janet Zeegers (Director Finance and - Reina Hekman - Myra ter Meulen (as of March 2008) - Anna Maria Doppenberg (Manager Operations) - Femke de Jong - Wanda Nowicka Communications, as of January 2008) - Vacancy (Office Assistant) - Mirjam Kikkert - Kai Pattipilohy (term ended March 2008) - Yolanda Jansen (Senior Development Officer - Roxanne Klaassen - Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck Institutional Giving) Staff who left in 2007 - Tatiana Krylova (Co-chair, as of June 2007) - Joseline de Koning (Development and - Astrid Aafjes (Director Grantmaking) - Anita Kucsarova - Petra Taams (Treasurer, term ended June Communications Assistant) - Jacqueline Fonteijn (Development Officer - Johan Kuip 2007) - Esther Lever (Development Officer Institutional Corporations) - Willemijn Leenhouts - Marjolein van der Tweel (term ended Giving) - Andrea Looijer (Office Manager) - Marjo van Loosdregt November 2007) - Nicky McIntyre (Director Development and - Saskia Meijnaar (Personnel and Organisation - Beatrice Moulianitaki Communications, till May 2008) Officer) - Thérèse Nahimana - Hanke Nubé (Development Assistant - Mirjam Zaandam (Secretariat) - Amber O'Connell Advisory Council Grantmaking Institutional Giving) - Ruth Abma (Programme Assistant Africa / - Mirjam Oosterveen - Katja Assoian (Europe and Commonwealth - Ingrid Verver (Communications Officer) Europe and the Commonwealth of - Eva Pallandt of Independent States) Independent States - Pooja Pant - Mariëtte van Beek (Middle East and the Grantmaking - Inge Reyntjes, Programme Assistant - Inge Reyntjes Maghreb, till October 2007) - Josephine Abahujinkindi (Programme Officer - Eden Tekeste - Gisela Dütting (Middle East and the Maghreb) Africa) - Karin Tolsma - Leila Jaffar (the Netherlands / Middle East - Beata Baradziej (Programme Assistant - Thirsa de Vries and Maghreb) Europe and the Commonwealth of - Henny van Vugt - Hanka Mongard (Europe and the Independent States) - Vivian Wenli Lin Commonwealth of Independent States) - Hélène Leclerc (Interim Programme Officer - Lorraine Nencel (Latin America and the Asia, till November 2008) Trainers Financial Courses ‘Women, Money Caribbean) - Elise Le Guil (Programme Assistant Middle East and Ideals’ - Christina Reyna (Latin America and the and the Maghreb) - Marijke Kuijpers (Fortis MeesPierson) Caribbean) - Annie Hillar (Programme Director, as of June - Nelleke Veenstra (Triodos Bank) - Zaina Maimu (Africa, since October 2007) 2008) - Jacqueline van Voorthuizen (Zyllian Strategies) - Madeleine Maurick (Africa) - Gabriëlle de Kroon (Programme Assistant Latin - Mintwab Aliyou (Africa) America and the Caribbean) - Sabine Luning (Africa, till June 2007) - Naïma el Moussati (Programme Officer Middle Founders of Mama Cash East and the Maghreb) - Lida van den Broek Alongside the members of the Dutch advisory - Aparna Nayampalli (Programme Officer Asia) - Dorelies Kraakman (1946-2002) councils, Mama Cash has local advisors in all - Carmen Reinoso (Programme Officer Latin - Tania Leon (1944-1996) countries where we make grants. America and the Caribbean) - Marjan Sax - Jessica Sinclair (Programme Assistant Africa) - Patti Slegers - Ewa Szepietowska (Programme Assistant the Netherlands, till June 2008) - Saskia Vliek (Programme Assistant Asia and the Pacific) - Esther Vonk (Programme Officer Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States) - Els Wagemans (Acting Programme Director, till May 2008) Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 49

INSTITUTIONAL AND CORPORATE DONORS

- Anneke van Balen/De Bonte Was Fund (NL) - Anonymous Company (NL) - Anonymous Foundation/King Baudouin Foundation United States (USA) - Barrow Cadbury Trust (GB) - Levi Strauss Advised Funds/Charities Aid Foundation (GB) - Diepeveen Fund (NL) - Ford Foundation (USA) - Goldman Sachs International (GB) - Green Park Foundation (USA) - Hivos (NL) - Swanee Hunt Family Fund/King Baudouin Foundation United States (USA) - Liz Claiborne Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation (USA) - Maria Willard Fund (NL) - Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DGIS (NL) - Nan Lombaers/Els Huijser Fund (NL) - Nike Foundation/Charities Aid Foundation (USA) - Nike European Operations Netherlands BV (NL) - Oak Foundation (CH) - Open Society Institute (USA) - Oxfam-Novib (NL) - PSO (NL) - RiHo Foundation (NL) - Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation (USA) - Stichting DOEN (NL) - Sigrid Rausing Trust (GB) 50 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

MAMA CASH SUPPORTS WOMEN’S GROUPS

Africa Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI) TOGO Empower vulnerable girls through sexuality, life Entraide des Femmes pour les Déshérités (EFD) Réseau des Organisations Féminines d’Afrique BURKINA FASO skills and leadership education. Raise awareness Establish a legal assistance centre to provide Francophone (ROFAF) Reseau Africa Volontaire (RAV) among young people, parents and the support to marginalized rural women and young Provide general support to the four-year ROFAF Provide women, particularly widowed, divorced community about girls’ sexual and reproductive girls in urban areas. programme (Network of Women's Organisations and single, with access to land in Tô, the West rights and HIV/AIDS. € 5,000 in African Francophone Countries). Centre of Burkina Faso. € 10,000 € 20,000 € 6,841 Federation of Women for Peace and Moving the Goalposts Kilifi (MTGK) Development (FEPADE) Provide general support to improve the social, Raise the awareness of local communities and UGANDA CAMEROON economic and health status of women and girls religious and political leaders about lesbian rights Citizens Village Library Women in Action Against Gender Based Violence through playing and organising football and other and the legal protection of these rights. Enhance the capacity of Nebbi women to Address violence and discrimination against activities. € 7,000 participate in local government planning and women and girls by raising awareness about € 15,684 budgeting processes and to secure improved women’s sexual and human rights and services for women. conducting government lobbying and media Rural Women Peace Link SENEGAL € 13,037 campaigns. Provide legal aid for victims of violence. Capacity development and peace building for Manooré FM, la voix des femmes € 11,759 women and girl victims of violence in conflict Participation in the first conference for Africa, National Coalition of Women with AIDS areas. the Maghreb and the Middle East about Advocate for the sexual and reproductive rights € 16,236 community radio and its social impact. of women with HIV through awareness raising GHANA € 1,233 and documentation. Alliance for African Women Initiative (AFAWI Sironga Women Empowerment Group € 12,640 Ghana) Increase the capacity for informed Develop a model programme to assist girls and decision-making about disease prevention SIERRA LEONE St Francis reach the HIV/AIDS widows women to cope with problems of adolescence, among sex workers and their clients. Gbotima Women’s Development Association Advocate for the property and land rights of puberty and reproductive health through € 7,900 (GBOWODA) women widowed by HIV/AIDS. workshops and awareness raising. Educate trainers in methods of developing € 7,000 € 10,000 Trans-nzoia Youth Sports Association women’s leadership skills in order to promote Engage fourty rural girls in sports and teach them gender responsive legislation and CEDAW Unity is Strength Women’s Association (USWA) Association for the Empowerment of Disabled life and leadership skills. The project provides implementation. Utilizing radio, TV talk shows, public Persons (AEDP) opportunities for girls to gain social recognition € 5,093 demonstrations and workshops to launch a Educate women with disabilities and their allies and challenges traditional myths about girls. campaign against harmful cultural practices, about disability rights and the new disability law. € 15,000 Pelewahun Rural Development Project (PRDP) such as forcing widows to marry and have sexual € 4,125 Support female victims of war and sexual assault relations with relatives of their late husbands. Umoja Women Group by raising community awareness of women’s € 5,917 Women Ventures International Leadership skills and legal rights training for rights and gender-based violence. Train Provide access to capital for women women and girls. mediators to report cases of assault. entrepreneurs, stimulate and provide new € 8,500 € 10,000 ZIMBABWE opportunities for women in business and lobby Arts Paradise Trust for improved labour conditions. Young Widows Advancement Program Organise the Young African Women’s Summit in € 20,000 Increase awareness among young widows about SOUTH AFRICA Harare, Zimbabwe, which provides the opportu- their property and inheritance rights. Train pro Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) nity for young women from across Africa to net- bono paralegals to assist widows and orphans Travel grant to the Africa Meeting of the work, coordinate and promote feminist KENYA to exercise their rights. International Resource Network (IRN) in Dakar, objectives. Baraza La Wanwake La Amani - Women’s Peace € 15,000 Senegal. € 18,700 Forum (BAWA-WPF) € 1,400 Institutionalise the BAWA-WPF so that it can Patsime Edutainment Trust become an autonomous, self-sufficient LIBERIA Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM) Capacity building programme to promote female organisation. Women Aid Liberia Publish a collection of stories about lesbian, performers’ use of the arts to address gender € 15,959 Promote and protect women’s and children’s bisexual and transgender women’s experiences and human rights issues relating to HIV and AIDS human rights by educating communities and of prejudice in order to encourage change in in several southern African countries. Deaf Women United Against HIV/AIDS in Kenya governments about the causes and effects of church and community cultures. € 15,000 Fund deaf women with HIV/AIDS to attend a gender-based violence. € 10,372 conference in Africa and learn about current € 13,271.66 YWCA Zimbabwe policies and strategies related to advocating Travel grant for women activists attending the for their rights. TANZANIA International Women’s Summit on HIV and AIDS € 550 NIGERIA Kigoma Women Development Group and the Young Women Christian Association Connecting Gender for Development Conduct the second phase of a project that World Council from July 1-11 in Nairobi, Kenya. Eco Clubs of Kenya Ensure economic, social and cultural equality for fights the sexual harassment and intimidation of € 1,536 Build the capacity of student-peer support women by working with local communities and school-age girls. networks, student and parent leaders and the community-based organisations to influence € 14,550 HIV/AIDS teacher training programme in Masaai policy and spending. Asia and the Pacific schools. € 15,000 Mategemeo Women Association Tanzania € 10,450 Organise Masaai women to form support groups CAMBODIA and share information about property rights, Project Against Domestic Violence (PADV) FEMNET REPUBLIC OF CONGO inheritance laws and access to land ownership. Provide support for a one-year action plan to Fund a workshop for the members of Solidarity Azur Development € 12,000 fight against domestic and other forms of for African Women’s Rights (SOWAR) network Lobby Parliament and key decision makers to violence against women in Cambodia. about the campaign for implementation of the promote the rights of indigenous people in Women Fighters Football Team € 10,000 African Charter on the rights of women in Africa. Congo Brazzaville and conduct media Empower women and girls through football and € 10,115 campaigns. the experience of being part of a team. € 5,000 € 4,500 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 51

CHINA Tamil Nadu Kattaikkuttu Kalai Valarchi Munnetra TAIWAN CHILE Common Language Sangam Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters Ekipa Organise ‘La La Camp 2007’, a four-day Support the education and advancement of (COSWAS) Fund the Seventh Latin American and Caribbean self-empowerment and leadership camp for young rural girls in becoming established artists General support for a year-long project of social Encounter for lesbian feminists to strengthen lesbian and transgender activists in China. in otherwise male-dominated theatre forms. activism for the decriminalization of sex work. their political alliances and ideology in the region. € 6,016.85 € 10,433 € 20,000 € 10,000

Women's Watch – China VACHA Red Chilena Contra la Violencia Domestica y Develop a network to monitor women’s rights Train girls living in slums and attending THAILAND Sexual violations and implement the objectives of the state-supported schools in information and Committee for Asian Women Increase the visibility of violence against women Convention for the Elimination of all kinds of communication technology as well as in * Travel grant for two representatives of Asia’s and contribute to its elimination through the Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). traditional forms of cultural expression. domestic worker organisations to attend the national campaign “Watch out, Machismo Kills!” € 5,000 € 8,745 International Seminar on Domestic Workers in € 14,454 the Netherlands. Workers' Mutual Aid Network (WMAN) € 2,000 Revista lesbica online rompiendo el silencio Train female factory workers in China to MALAYSIA * Travel grant for 10 participants to attend the Publish the first-ever lesbian magazine in Chile to self-organise and demand their rights as Women’s Development Collective (WDC) 3-day Rural Women’s Regional Consultation in increase awareness of the challenges and workers. Fund a feminist event for the purpose of preparation for the Asian Rural Women’s opportunities for lesbians in the country. € 8,234 attracting fresh energy and diversity to the Conference 2008, a symposium on the rights, € 10,597 women’s movement in Malaysia. liberation and empowerment of rural women Yangguang zhi lu (Sunlight Journey Volunteer € 10,500 workers. Solidaridad y Organizacion Local (SOL) Work Group) € 4,512.64 Build the capacity of grass-roots women’s Partly institutional and partly project-based grant groups to coordinate actions and strategies in to prevent HIV/AIDS among female sex workers MONGOLIA defence of women’s rights. and raise awareness of their legal rights. Foundation for the Empowerment of Rural Latin America and the Carribbean € 9,900 € 6,800 Women (FERW) Train women in Mongolian rural provinces to ARGENTINA become leaders and decision makers in Asociacion Civil Palabras COLOMBIA HONG KONG preparation for the upcoming elections in 2008. Found a rehabilitation programme for female Asociacion Colectivo Mujeres al Derecho Association of women with Disabilities (AWDHK) € 10,000 victims of violence, and lobby governmental Strengthen the leadership and political lobbying Fund the first regional conference of disabled institutions to take an active role in the prevention skills of displaced and indigenous women. women in Southeast Asia in Hong Kong, January Lawyers Centre for Legal Reform of all forms of violence against women. € 11,675.88 2008. Design and implement strategies to advance € 6,000 € 7,465 women’s human rights in Mongolia through Mujer Te Ves advocacy and litigation. Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir - Cordoba Improve the sexual health practices of students € 45,850 Systematize and share the lessons learned from in the region of Tequendama with an alternative INDIA the Campaign for a Legal and Safe Abortion in educational programme: “Youth and Sexuality.” Chitra Katha Productions/Nandini Bedini The ‘Princess’ centre for the protection of girls Argentina in order to strengthen the feminist € 10,516 Publicity and distribution of “A Man for Ratmi,” and women’s rights movement in the country and the region as a a film by tribal women in Garo Hills, India, Empower young teenage mothers from whole. portraying gender roles and the practice of low-income backgrounds to become financially € 15,509 COSTA RICA bridegroom capture in a matriarchal society. independent through training, counselling and Fundacion Voz Propia € 2,000 peer support. Desalambrando Produce multimedia materials based on feminist € 5,000 Raise awareness and prevent domestic violence theatrical plays to make more visible the CROSS within lesbian relationships. important role women play in every aspect of life Organise female workers at rubber plantations to € 10,000 and their power to influence society. fight against exploitative work conditions and NEPAL € 12,750 claim their labour rights. Mitini/Blue Diamond Desdenosotras - La Casa del Encuentro € 12,547 Supply a seed grant to establish Mitini Nepal's In front of the National Parliament building, stage office. This office will provide support to LGBTQI a monthly, twenty-four-hour action campaign DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DISHA Social Organization (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and demanding the end of violence against women. Las Chinchetas * General support to strengthen the leadership intersexual) individuals and promote awareness € 10,000 Travel grant to participate as a panellist at the within village women’s groups. of related issues in Nepal. Seventh Regional Lesbian Encounter, February € 20,000 € 8,000 Hilando las Sierras 7-11 in Chile. * Increase the capabilities and leadership skills of Use art and other cultural expressions to € 648 girls and young women under eighteen. maximize the impact of the National Campaign € 4,780 PAKISTAN for a Legal and Safe Abortion in Argentina. Harmony Foundation € 10,000 GUATEMALA Enterprising Women Unlimited Organise women to advance a society free of Servicios Ecuménicos de Formación Cristiana en General support to cultivate leadership and work-place discrimination and sexual Centro América (SEFCA) economic empowerment among local low-income harassment. BRAZIL Create educational leaflets about economic women from the unorganised labour sector. € 5,578 Grupo Curumim alternatives and food sovereignty for indigenous € 10,000 Train girls from fourteen to twenty-four years of rural women in Guatemala. age about public policies related to women’s € 14,241 Streelekha/Vimochana PAPUA NEW GUINEA rights and violence against young women so that Wage a campaign to affirm the fundamental right Leitana Nehan Womens Development Agency they can monitor these policies. to life of unborn girls and to abolish sex-selective Train women and girls in Papua New Guinea to € 10,000 HONDURAS abortions in India. Encourage a more critical serve as model leaders and decision-makers in Grupo de Mujeres Lesbianas y Bisexuales Mujer attitude toward this practice among doctors and the peace process in post-conflict Bougainville. sin Limite/Comunidad Gay Sampedrana the general population. € 10,000 Prevent HIV/AIDS among lesbian and bisexual € 10,235 women through education, comprehensive health care and advocacy. € 8,938 52 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

MEXICO ALGERIA Association for Crisis Assistance and Association El Amane Pour le Développement de Casa Amiga Centro de Crisis A.C. Association Femmes en Communication (FEC) Development Cooperation (WADI) la Femme (AEDF) Conduct workshops for young women in * Raise awareness of women rights in rural and Raise awareness and instigate change in the Create a regional network of community-based community centres, maquiladoras and schools to remote areas. behaviour of rural women regarding female women’s rights organisations. provide them with the tools to talk openly about € 10,000 genital mutilation. € 15,000 sex, reproduction and contraceptives with their * Travel grant to attend a conference in Morocco € 9,450 partners. about how community-based radio can help Association Oued Srou € 12,814 build grassroots movements for democracy and Women Empowerment Organisation (WEO) Empower women and girls, educate them about gender equality. Conduct a campaign in the schools to raise their rights and provide legal support within a Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la € 72 health and body awareness of pubescent girls. counselling centre. Equidad A.C. € 14,100 € 13,200 Monitor national budget allocation to specific Rachda Tebessa women’s issues. Establish a counselling centre for female victims Centre Kanaf pour le Developpement de la € 10,000 of violence and advocate for women’s rights. ISRAEL Famille € 15,289 Afnan el Galil General support for a counselling centre for Red latinoamericana y Caribeña de Jovenes por Create a women’s centre and a girls’ club with young girls living on the streets and women los derechos sexuales y reproductivos (REDLAC) the aim of raising awareness about women’s employed as domestic workers. Strengthen the network of youth activists working EGYPT issues and empowering women. € 10,000 toward the attainment of sexual and reproductive Future Association for Development and € 10,000 rights for young people in Latin America. Consumers and Environment Protection Comité des mères des 15 enleves sahraouis € 10,526 Empower girls through sports activities in local Kayan Feminist Organisation depuis le 25/12/2005 youth centres. Empower, educate and train poor women about Travel grant to attend a conference in Tunisia for SIPAM Salud Integral para la Mujer A.C. € 12,378 their economic and legal rights through young activists to exchange ideas on democracy Organise the first-ever regional meeting of female Economic Rights Knowledge for Women (EERKW). and cooperation and strengthen the civil society activists from the feminist and other social Iman Kamel € 10,967 in the region. movements to articulate strategies that will Create a documentary portraying the lives of € 450 effectively influence political decision-making in Bedouin women who break cultural taboos. The Arab Forum for Sexuality the region. € 14,000 Found and build the capacity of an organisation Union de l’Action Féminine (UAF), section Rabat € 10,000 to raise awareness about sexual and Travel grant to attend a meeting at the United Media-Arts for Development reproductive health issues. Nations Headquarters aimed at bringing Create “edutainment” media productions to € 14,000 international attention to the issue of violence URUGUAY educate school children and the general public against Moroccan girls. Cotidiano Mujer about the sexual harassment of women. € 5,077.26 Conduct a media campaign against all forms of € 15,000 JORDAN fundamentalism and their negative impacts on Cultural Forum for the Blind Woman in Jordan women’s rights. Organization for Society, Woman, Children and (CFBW) PALESTINE € 10,000 Environment Development (SAWA) Educate blind women about their rights and Al Najah Voice Radio Station Conduct studies and raise awareness of female provide job skills training. Travel grant to attend a conference in Morocco Red Uruguaya de Autonomias (R.U.D.A.) genital mutilation. € 15,000 about how community-based radio can help Offer trainings on sexuality and reproduction to € 9,526 build grassroots movements for democracy and young women from areas of extreme poverty in Jordan Valley Women Radio gender equality. Montevideo, Uruguay. Travel grant to attend a conference in Morocco € 1,200 € 5,640 IRAN about how community-based radio can help South East Asia Research Centre (SEARC) build grassroots movements for democracy and Aljana Centre for Cultural and Social RELACAHUPAN Red LAC por la humanizacion Travel grant for three Iranian women to gender equality. Development del parto y nacimiento participate in the launch of the ‘Stop stoning € 1,050 Train a group of young Arab women to become Conduct training and lobbying activities to forever’ campaign, organised in Istanbul on leaders and agents of change. guarantee the rights of women to make informed November 26th. Sisterhood is Global Insitute/Jordan (SIGI/J) € 15,000 decisions about pregnancy and childbirth with an € 5,067 Establish local counselling services in rural areas, emphasis on the benefits of natural birth. and educate rural women about human rights Association of Women’s Action for Training € 10,000 and violence against women. and Rehabilitation (AOWA) IRAQ € 49,583 Develop the leadership, creative and life skills of Iraqi Women Media Centre young girls through workshops, media courses Middle East and the Maghreb Establish a women’s media centre for the and theatre. purpose of raising awareness about women’s LEBANON € 7,666 AFGHANISTAN issues and developing women’s media skills. KAFA - (Enough) Violence and Exploitation Amarc Win Mena € 15,000 Lobby for the implementation a law banning ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women Travel grant for attending a conference in domestic violence. Empower lesbian and non-lesbian women by Morocco about how community-based radio can Khatuzeen - Centre for Kurdish Womens Issues € 10,000 conducting workshops on issues related to help build grassroots movements for democracy Visit girls in schools to raise awareness about gender and sexuality. and gender equality. women’s issues. Set up a domestic violence Lebanese Council To Resist Violence Against € 15,000 € 1,250 hotline. Women € 14,846 Awareness-raising campaign in private schools & Baladna (Association for Arab Youth) Mazefilm NGO's about the sexual harassment of little girls. Travel grant to attend a conference in Tunisia for Organise a film festival about gender and politics, Organisation of Women´s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) € 12,787 young activists to exchange ideas about focusing on women filmmakers and women’s * A multiple-year advocacy and empowerment democracy and cooperation and strengthen roles in Afghan society. project aimed at banning violence against civil society in the region. € 8,500 women. MOROCCO € 585 € 50,858.04 Association Créativite Féminine The Afghan Women’s Network * General support for capacity building and to Use theatre to raise awareness about the Stars of Hope Centre Purchase a camera and edit a documentary. improve the efficiency in supporting women's problems faced by young, female domestic General support grant for the institutional € 652.54 empowerment and reaching the eradication of workers in Morocco. capacity building of a group for disabled women. violence against women. € 10,000 € 20,000 € 15,000 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 53

Women Development Centre LORI Lesbian Organization Rijeka Stowarzyszenie Pryzmat Warszawa (Pryzmat Commonweal of Independent States Provide empowerment training for Palestinian Promote the rights of lesbian, bisexual and Association Warsaw) (CIS) women to help them face daily difficulties. transgender women and counter discrimination Organise a LGBTQ film festival in Poland to € 10,000 based on sexual orientation. gather and strengthen the community and to ARMENIA € 10,000 change the way lesbian, bisexual, gay and Democracy Today transgender persons are perceived by Strengthen the economic, political and social TURKEY Polish society. position of rural women through a multi-strategy Amnesty International Turkey ESTONIA € 4,671 programme. Conduct a campaign to pressure the local MTÜ NAISTE VARJUPAIK - Women's Shelter € 14,000 government to comply with the law to establish a General support to prevent and combat violence Stowarzyszenie W strone Dziewczat (Toward the women's shelter. against women. Girls Association) Legal Gender Cultural Foundation (LIZA) € 4,920 € 3,525 Design and introduce easily accessible education Bring women’s issues to the broader public by tools to promote equality in education, empower organising the Fourth International Film Festival Flying Broom women and girls, and to raise consciousness KIN. Strengthen the financial, technical and KOSOVO about women’s participation in history, society € 5,960 managerial capacity of an organisation dedicated Kosova Women's Network (KWN) and culture. to improving gender equality. A year-long tour through Kosovo, Albania and € 8,800 € 22,800 Macedonia of a female-produced play about AZERBAIJAN women’s rights issues in everyday life. Political Culture Centre for Azerbaijan Women € 11,900 SERBIA (PCCW) YEMEN Autonomous women’s center against sexual Leadership training and network-building for UNIDOM (United for the Improvement of Little People of Kosovo violence (AWC) women members of political and social Domestic Work) Organise an art exhibition focused on promoting Test a feminist method to heal mother-child organisations. Make a film about domestic workers to be used the rights of women and girls with disabilities. relationships that have been impaired by family € 8,034 during an awareness-building campaign. € 800 abuse. Publish the results of the test. € 7,500 € 15,000 Women's Association for Rational Development (WARD) LATVIA DEVE Lesbian and Gay Cultural Centre Formation of a Women’s Development Centre INTERREGIONAL Centre for Gender Studies, University of Latvia Organise a European photography exhibition in that will offer a range of services aimed at Gender Equity in Sport for Social Change Publication of the book ‘Gender Matters in the Belgrade on the different forms and meanings of building the capacity of women’s organisations. International conference, in Morocco, with Baltics‘, including the distribution in Latvia, love from a feminist perspective. € 7,860 practitioners and funders on the use of sport as a Lithuania and Estonia. € 8,000 tool for social change and towards gender equity. € 5,800 Women and Modern World, Social Charitable € 80.200 Zene na Delu (Women at Work) Centre Creation of a cultural-political space for diverse, A women’s human rights training of trainers for LITHUANIA activist women to strengthen and sustain twenty young women activists in Shamakhi, Central and Eastern Europe New Generation of Women's Initiatives (ngoWI) activism. Agsu, Ismayilli, Qobustan and Xizi. Bring young feminists from different European € 6,982 € 6,525.50 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA countries to Lithuania’s first alternative women’s CURE Foundation festival. Organise a regional V-Day in order to increase € 1,655 INTERREGIONAL BELARUS awareness about violence against women and Correlation Network - European Network Social Seventh Side YNGO & Female Centre ‘Adliga’ girls around the globe and to build the Inclusion and Health Mobilise women in Vitebsk to protect their rights, momentum necessary for a revival of the MACEDONIA Scholarship programme for female sex-workers lobby for their interests and participate in social women's movement in the region. Association LIL to participate in a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria to change through street theatre and capacity € 8,450 Through advocacy and direct assistance, gain strengthen the position and rights of sex workers building workshops. access to the existing social and health care in Europe. € 10,000 Women of Una system of Macedonia for Roma women with a € 12,000 Institutional support grant for advocacy, public handicap. awareness-raising and direct assistance to € 7,000 Femi group GEORGIA reduce violence against women in the Una Sana Participation in an international feminist theory GenderMediaCaucasus Journalists’ Association district. and activism camp in Slovenia for young (GMC) € 10,000 POLAND students and activists from different European, Publish CaucAsia, a feminist political analysis Entuzjastka mainly Balkan, countries. magazine in Georgia. Make a documentary film about abortion as a € 6,000 € 12,000 BULGARIA women’s human rights issue aimed at Dignified Life Foundation encouraging activism against the restrictive law La Strada International Gori Disability Club Through legal consultations and civil human and conservative views of the society in Poland. Conduct a media campaign to raise awareness Empower disabled lesbian, bisexual and rights monitoring in Sofia, Varna, Burgas, and € 10,000 about the relationship between the violation of transgender women to build a supportive Sandanski, protect women and girls with women's rights and the trafficking of women in community and work to change society’s disabilities from violence and labour market Feminoteka Foundation Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent attitudes towards disabled women and sexual discrimination. Purchase of a camera to produce a short film to States. minorities. € 10,000 promote Wendo workshops for girls. € 33,200 € 7,000 € 567 Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE) Shida Kartli Committee Anti-Violence Network of CROATIA Ponton - Youth Advisors Group A travel grant for women from the CEE and CIS Georgia (SKCAVNG) LGBTIQ choir ‘Le Zbor’ A peer sexual and reproductive rights education regions to attend the annual WIDE conference in Prevent domestic violence and assist survivors Offer public events and concerts produced by project by and for girls in secondary schools Madrid, Spain dealing with issues of trade, by publicizing the law against domestic violence, the lesbian-feminist community. where these topics are banned from the development and globalization from a feminist training police and governmental bodies, € 4,700 curriculum. perspective. conducting public awareness campaigns, and € 12,030 € 2,983 providing a crisis centre and hotline service. € 8,954 54 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

Studio Mobile - Accent on Action Yuzarlik - Network for Women’s Human Rights COS-Oost-Brabant Sprong films Institutional support grant for the winners of Establish three women’s resource centres serving Develop innovative tools to increase employment Post-production and screening in schools of Mama Cash’s (she changes the world) award women’s reproductive health and rights needs in among migrant and refugee women living in the educational movie targeting young people which 2007. rural regions. province of Brabant. gives a realistic picture of lover boy issues. € 20,000 € 14,130 € 7,500 € 3,500

The Women and the World - Kvemo Kartli Cultuurfabriek BV Stichting AanZ Organise trainings and seminars for women UKRAINE Sponsor a meeting in Amsterdam on Raise awareness about sexual diversity and use activists and use local TV programmes and print Insight Human Rights Organization international women’s day featuring debates and interactive theatre to build a more tolerant climate media to increase the participation of women in Organise an art and photography exhibition to cultural events about “the new feminist agenda in in secondary schools. parliamentary elections in Georgia in 2008. make the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender the Netherlands.” € 5,000 € 10,706 community more visible, counter stereotypes and € 8,250 demonstrate that LGBT people are an integral Stichting Amaan Women Employment Innovative Centre (WEIC) part of Ukrainian society. FemArtMuseum Organise a series of European conferences and Conduct the Media Campaign for Women's € 8,000 Seed grant for the first steps in establishing the trainings by and for Somali women of the Empowerment in Parliamentary Elections 2008 FemArtMuseum in Amsterdam, with the aim to Diaspora. Build a strong network of Somali in Georgia. Sumy Local Crisis Centre revalue the work of women artists and making it women activists in Europe. € 20,000 Provide education, counselling and advocacy for accessible to general public. € 7,500 victims of domestic violence. Educate local € 5,000 Women’s Initiative for Equality (WIE) authorities about the issue of domestic violence. Stichting Her World Create and broadcast the television series € 11,770 International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) Fund the Women Inc. festival to bring women "Women Make Changes”. The series aims to Engage young women and girls in the peace from all generations, disciplines and cultures change the attitudes of Georgian society towards movement by organising a one-day programme together to celebrate innovative women who women and to increase the self-esteem of UZBEKISTAN in The Hague that includes education, break barriers and take a stand for social women. Gender Programme nformation, art and interactive theatre. change. € 11,000 Address domestic violence by means of a € 4,000 € 16,000 puppet show and by training lawyers, journalists and students of journalism about gender issues Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek Stichting Landelijk Ongedocumenteerden MOLDOVA and women’s rights. Organise a symposium about gender and Steunpunt (LOS) Asociatia Familiilor MonoParentale (Association € 20,000 sexuality for Surinamese and Caribbean groups. Publish educational booklets that provide of Single Parent Families) € 1,600 information about the medical system and other Combat domestic violence against women and health-related topics relevant to refugee, migrant support and empower single mothers. Western Europe Iraakse Vrouwenvereniging and undocumented women in the Netherlands. € 12,000 Launch a series of activities on International € 10,000 ITALY/ALBANIA Women’s Day, including a photography Gender Centre CRINALI - Associazione di ricerca, cooperazione exhibition, a play and two debates focusing on Stichting LauwRecht - Steunpunt Illegalen (STIL) Conduct a training of trainers for professionals e formazione interculturale tra donne the situation of women in Iraq and connecting Provide shelter and legal, medical and practical who will subsequently train 200 policemen to Diaspora women’s group advancing women’s communities in the Netherlands and Iraq. support for undocumented women in Utrecht. adequately protect victims of gender-based rights in the Mirdita region of Albania by € 3,000 € 6,000 violence and to implement protection orders, supporting the House for Women's Rights and a new legal tool in Moldova. Health. Meer Dan Gewenst Stichting Ons Pardon € 14,500 € 10,000 Organise a symposium on lesbian and gay Integrated programme for the economic and parenthood that presents the latest research and social empowerment of women who gained legal, social and medical information. residence permits in the context of the ‘general RUSSIAN FEDERATION FRANCE/MALI € 3,000 pardon’ for refugees. Island, Radical feminist magazine Solidarité Entr’Elles (SEE) € 10,010 Publish a radical lesbian-feminist journal and Diaspora women’s group supporting a local Michele Aboro distribute throughout Russia and Ukraine. women’s group in Bamako for the establishment Support Michele Aboro in her court case against Stichting Powerlady € 2,000 of a nursery for the children of women-prisoners the boxing promoter who ended her contract Conduct a work training programme focusing on and enable their mothers to attend training. based on her looks, colour and sexual education, job opportunities and active Unity € 7,000 orientation. participation in society for girls from diverse Establish informational and psychological € 7,425 backgrounds in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost. support centre for lesbians in the Altai region, € 11,270 South-western Siberia. THE NETHERLANDS Paper House Films € 8,000 8 Maart Organisatie van Karzar-Zanan Organise an innovative film series depicting the Stichting Shakti Organise a demonstration on international experiences of mothers with HIV/AIDS. For, by Develop a method of group therapy appropriate women’s day to protest discriminatory, and about women affected by HIV/AIDS. for migrant and refugee adolescent girls who TAJIKISTAN anti-woman policies in the Islamic Republic of € 7,500 have experienced violence. NIHOL Iran and advocate for equal rights for women € 6,130 Protect women from violence in the Rasht region worldwide. Roswitha Eshuis by establishing a legal clinic and a women’s € 1,500 Produce documentary featuring a young Nigerian Stichting Vital Aid Foundation centre in Garm, and by the mobilization of mother who came to the Netherlands as a Contribute to the empowerment of African lawyers in the four Rasht districts. Anti-SGP refugee and lives here without a legal residence refugee women by informing them about their € 12,000 Through a website, protests and newsletters, permit. The film portrays the obstacles she legal rights and systems that provide services bring attention to the violation of women’s rights encounters and the solution she chooses. and assistance. by Christian fundamentalists. € 5,000 € 8,700 TURKMENISTAN € 375 Coalition of Women’s Organizations in Samenwerkende Iraanse Vrouwengroepen Stichting Vrouwennetwerk Turkmenistan COC Nijmegen Fund the “International Day to Stop Violence Organise a meeting so that female entrepreneurs Election campaign in support of women activists Organise a three-day national festival in Nijmegen against Women” organised by cooperating from all sectors, including art, business, policy, for the provincial People's Councils elections. for LBT women from around the country to Iranian women’s groups in the Netherlands. sports and politics, can build a network and € 11,999.68 advance the lesbian rights movement. € 2,500 stimulate further entrepreneurship by women. € 3,000 € 2,500 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 55

Stichting Vrouwennuvoorlater THE NETHERLANDS/MOROCCO INTERREGIONAL Create a website and online forum for ‘second Euro-Mediterraan Centrum Migratie & AFRA - International Centre for Black Women’s wave’ feminist and lesbian activists to Ontwikkeling (EMCEMO) Perspectives collaborate, write feminist-lesbian herstory and Establish a network of Moroccan women Organise the First European Congress of Black share it with younger generations. migrants working to establish a new framework Women in Austria. € 4,000 for thinking about women’s human rights based € 10,000 on transnational citizenship and democracy. The Movement Network € 10,000 Babaylan Diwang - Philippine Women's Network Bring together professional female dancers and Campaign to build the capacity of Philippine choreographers and women from the migrant women in Europe to advocate for better Amsterdam neighbourhood ‘Bos en Lommer’ for THE NETHERLANDS/SOMALIA living and working conditions and participate in a programme of empowerment through dance. Stichting Amaan sustainable development processes. € 9,782 Diaspora women’s group contributing to building € 7,000 two women’s centres in Somalia and Somaliland Theatergroep Face/Stichting Turks Theater that will offer trainings in entrepreneurship and Produce a play by young women to raise work to improve the social and economic INTERNATIONAL awareness about traditional power relations position of Somali women. Humanistisch Overleg Mensenrechten between men and women in the context of € 6,570 Seed grant for the development of a tool to religion. assess the human rights impact of anti-trafficking € 1,190 policies and measures. THE NETHERLANDS/TURKEY € 20,000 Ulrike Montmann Stichting Instituut voor Alternatieve Strategieën Art intervention project in different European (IAS) cities featuring audiovisual portraits of women Diaspora women supporting the development of drug addicts living in Europe. economic sustainability models for the € 15,000 community of Sinop, Turkey based on the economic and decision-making participation of Womenspeak women. Organise a cross-disciplinary series of dialogues € 10,000 between different feminist and intercultural groups in the city of Utrecht. € 8,000 PORTUGAL Associacao Medicos Pela Escolha - Doctors Zaak Oduber-Lamers Pro-Choice Support the court case of Charlene Oduber and Mobilise the medical community and the public Esther Lamers, an Aruban-Dutch couple whose to support the February 11th referendum to marriage and marital rights are not legalize abortion. Provide monitoring of the new acknowledged in Aruba. law and train doctors in the provision of abortion € 12,500 care. € 11,000 You Act Travel grant for a young transgender and sex worker's rights activist to attend the opening of a UNITED KINGDOM/IRAQ three-year international training programme for International Coordination for Gender Justice in sexual and reproductive rights activism. Iraq (ICGJI) € 1,500 Diaspora women’s group changing attitudes about rape, ‘honour’ crimes and other gender crimes by assisting women to testify before the THE NETHERLANDS/GUATEMALA Iraq High Tribunal and by educating judges about Stichting OJALA gender bias and the rights of women. * Raise awareness in the Netherlands about the € 8,000 murdering of women in Guatemala by organising the presentation of a documentary. € 500 UNITED KINGDOM/KENYA * Mobilize public demonstrations on the streets of Sponsored Arts For Education (S.A.F.E.) The Hague to bring attention to the murdering of Diaspora theatre group working with local women in Guatemala and call for action. community using theatre to educate the Maasai € 1,238 community in Kenya about HIV/AIDS and to stop the practice of female genital mutilation. € 9,000 THE NETHERLANDS/MOLUCCAS Vrouwen voor Vrede op de Molukken Hold meetings in the Netherlands and the Moluccas for the purpose of creating a manual for peace-building and sustainable development for women in the Moluccas and in the Diaspora. € 7,500 56 Mama Cash Annual Report 2007

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GHANA ARGENTINA EGYPT African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) Fondo de Mujeres del Sur Arab Women’s Foundation A two-year regional, collaborative initiative of Contribute to women’s empowerment initiatives, Conduct a feasibility study for the creation of an African Women’s Development Fund, The Wheat especially in underdeveloped areas, and Arabic women’s fund. Trust and Urgent Action Fund Africa. strengthen this women’s fund. € 20,877.90 € 24,000 € 25,000

Eastern Europe KENYA BOLIVIA Urgent Action Fund - Africa Asociacion Coordinadora de la Mujer BULGARIA * Conduct a Smart Growth assessment to Conduct a feasibility study for the creation of a Bulgarian Fund for Women/Gender Project for increase the effectiveness of this fund’s women’s fund in Bolivia. Bulgaria Foundation programmes. € 5,000 Organisational assessment and strategic € 5,000 planning of this fund. * Provide general support to Urgent Action Fund € 3,000 Africa for operational costs, regranting grants and BRAZIL endowment fund. Angela Borba Fund € 30,000 * Participation in a conference on funding LGBTI CZECH REPUBLIC rights projects in the global South and East. Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund Goals include strengthening organisational * A programme of three women’s funds to share Asia partnerships and supporting LGBTI groups in best practices and enhance their organisational Brazil more effectively. capacity. HONG KONG € 1,965 € 7,000 HER Fund * Continuing support for initiatives that seek to * Institutional support to promote gender equality * Contribution to HER Fund’s Campaign 88 Days enhance women’s rights in Brazil. and strengthen the women’s movement through called “KickStart HER Strengths in Motion”. € 40,000 resource mobilization and grantmaking. € 2,000 € 45,000 * Provide a follow-up grant for capacity building under the Smart Growth programme (3rd phase) CHILI for this fund. Fondo Alquimia. Mujeres Confiando en Mujeres SERBIA € 24,402 * Coordinate a four-day meeting for fifty women Reconstruction Womens Fund * Re-grant for “Girls' Empowerment Talk,” from organisations and donor communities to Support the capacity of women to promote a training for young girls in Hong Kong about discuss challenges and trends in resource women’s rights through social and political issues of gender equality. mobilisation to support women’s issues. engagement. € 10,000 € 13,335.26 € 35,000 * Promote the role of women as catalysts of social change in Chile. MONGOLIA € 40,000 Common Wealth of Independent Mongolian Women's Fund/MONES States *General support to the Mongolian Women’s Transandinas Women’s Fund Fund for regranting, fundraising, communication Conduct a feasibility study for the creation of a GEORGIA and capacity building. women’s fund in the Andean Region. Women’s Fund Georgia (WFG) € 25,808 € 5,000 Support for this fund’s grantmaking programme * Fund salaries for employees of the Mongolian for small and start-up women’s groups in Women’s Fund (MONES) during October through Georgia. December of 2007. MEXICO € 30,000 € 11,603 Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer * Address the sexual abuse of young girls in (Semillas) Ulanbaataar, Mongolia by raising awareness, * Build the capacity of the Semillas women’s fund UKRAINE changing attitudes, amending laws and providing to empower women through funding women’s Ukrainian Women’s Fund support for victims. rights initiatives. Strengthen and support women’s movements € 10,000 € 25,000 in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. * Contribute to a regional initiative for funding € 30,000 Asian Network of Womens Funds (ANWF) programmes for the advancement of women in Provide a multiple-year grant to strengthen Brazil, Mexico and Central America. regional work and collaboration among the Asian € 32,000 women’s funds MONES, Tewa, Nirnaya and HER Fund. € 16,000 NICARAGUA Central American Women’s Fund (CAWF) * Support for young women’s groups from NEPAL Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Tewa, for self-reliant development Salvador to promote female leadership and * Organise activities related to Tewa’s 10th strengthen the feminist movement. anniversary. € 30,998 € 2,000 * Support this women’s fund in Central America * General support for this Nepalese women’s to strengthen the fundraising capabilities of fund. young Diaspora groups. € 11,000 € 30,000 More information or donate to Mama Cash

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(she changes the world) Text Shambhavi Sarasvati ([email protected])

Design and lay-out Jacqueline Heijmerink Grafisch Ontwerp (grafi[email protected])

Photos Anti-SGP, the Netherlands (p. 3), Clean Cloths Campaign, the Netherlands (p.14), Coastal Sisters Bameda, Cameroon (p. 11, top), Casablanca Conference, May 2007 (p. 34), Committee for Asian Women (p. 8, top, p. 13), Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la Equidad, Mexico (p. 4), Cotidiano Mujer, Uruguay (p. 30), CROSS, India (p. 17, right), El Amane, Morocco (pp. 20 and 21), Hong Kong Women’s Fund (p. 41, bottom), Inclusive and Affirming Ministries, South Africa (p. 29, top), International Network of Women's Funds (p. 37, top), Joint Action Group for Gender Equality, Malaysia (p. 9, right and p. 41, top left), La Strada International (p. 37, bottom), Terry Lorant (p. 10), Manoocher Deghati/IRIN (p. 17, left and p. 57), Julius Mwelu/IRIN (cover), Ponton, Poland (p. 11, bottom), Refugees International (p. 25, right), Relacahupan, Uruguay (p. 32), Rural Women Peace Link, Kenya (p. 25, left), Tamil Nadu Kattaikutta–All Girls Group, India (p. 26), The Culture and Free Thought Association, Palestine (p. 22), Vacha, India (p. 18 and 29, middle), Willem Velthoven for Women on Waves (p. 33), Noortje Verhart (p. 9, left), and Mama Cash.

Production Coordination and editing: Anna Maria Doppenberg, Mama Cash Assistance: Ingrid Verver, Mama Cash

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(she changes the world) Mama Cash Annual Report 2007 www.mamacash.org