filia.die frauenstiftung

Berlin

Paulo Freire Institut
Project “Peace and Gender in Dialogue – Experience at grass-roots level 10 years after UN Resolution 1325”

Migrant and non-migrant women's organisations from Berlin explore UN Resolution 1325 (participation of women in peace processes) and reflect on their experience of peace-building work in the German context. The results will be presented in October 2010 at the Conference of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation marking the 10th jubilee of UN Resolution 1325. The project is embedded in the "Trialogue" of Caucasian, Latin-American and German women peace activists that filia promoted in 2008. It enhances the visibility of (migrant) women as actors in a constructive change of conflict dynamics in Germany.
www.ina-fu.org/pfi
Total: € 3,000 (First grant)

Bundesweiter Koordinierungskreis gegen Frauenhandel und Gewalt an Frauen im Migrationsprozess e.V. (KOK) (German coordination group against trafficking with women and violence against women in migration)

Project “Networking for the protection of human rights and drawing up of an expertise on the subject Germans affected by human trafficking”
The coordination group belongs to Forum Menschenrechte (human rights), a network of German NGOs working to improve protection and implementation of human rights. Collaboration in the network allows KOK to observe the German Government’s work on women's and human rights critically. The women of KOK take political lobbying at national level seriously, seizing opportunities to keep the topic alive in the minds of members of the German Parliament.
The KOK counselling centres report an increasing number of German clients seeking support (27%). An expertise is being drawn up on the background and options for action and will be distributed to the counselling centres and other multipliers.
www.kok-buero.de
Total: € 4,500 (Follow-on grant)

Hamburg

5. Hamburger Frauenhaus
Project “Running against violence”

The Hamburg women's refuges are jointly organising the 3rd benefit race round the Alster lake in Hamburg in June 2010. The race that targets violence against women and girls has attracted much public attention, drawing in politicians and sponsors (the drugstore chai Budnikowsky). Application has been made for funding of the conspicuous orange printed t-shirts on which filia's logo appears too.
www.laufend-gegen-gewalt.de
Total: € 1,500 (Follow-on grant)

2. Hamburger Frauenhaus / Violence against women and girls work group
Project “Bread against brutality“

Together with the State Federation of Bakers' Guilds Hamburg, the violence against women work group is organising its second campaign week addressing violence against women and girls in November 2010. In 2008 altogether 158 bakers' shops in Hamburg joined in – they had 160,000 paper bags printed with information on advisory programmes and emergency telephone numbers to call and used them to pack bakery products.
www.gewaltschutz.info
Total: € 3,200 (First grant)

Gleich & Gleich e.V.
Project “Lesbians in South Africa”

The lesbians' spring meeting in Hamburg in 2010 will be held shortly before the start of the world football championship in South Africa. The organisers are taking this as an occasion to draw attention to the human rights situation of lesbians in South Africa. Phumi Mtetwa from the "Equality Project" in Johannesburg will be invited to attend. filia supported her and her organisation in 2009 with an urgent action grant. Following the murder of Eudy Simelane, she organised public protest with a large number of actions. The memory of the South African women footballer who was raped and murdered because she represented her lesbian way of life openly and self-confidently is to be preserved here in Hamburg too.
www.lesbenfruehling.de/hamburg2010
Total: € 2,000 (First grant)

Heidelberg

Rund um die Welt e.V.
Project “Half of heaven – an exhibition against sexual violence against women and girls”

The exhibition introduces 99 women in the form of photos and tape recordings. The portraits show the women in all their variety and demonstrate what destructive influence sexual violence has on personal life histories. We also learn about the women’s ideas on how they can protect themselves better against sexual violence. The exhibition is to be shown in a number of German cities starting in February 2010 and will also travel to Vienna and Basle.
http://web.me.com/haelfte.des.himmels/Die_H%C3%A4lfte_des_Himmels/Willkommen/Willkommen.html
Total: € 6,500 (First grant)

Tübingen

Terre des Femmes
Project “Distribution of the prevention brochure We protect our daughters at gynaecologists throughout Germany”

Terre des Femmes has published the brochure against genital mutilation in six languages with the support of the German Federal Ministry for Families. Gynaecological surgeries are a key location for reaching the target group of migrants living in Germany. The Waiting Room Information Service IDS supports the campaign, distributes the brochures and documents its use.
www.frauenrechte.de
Total: € 4,500 (Follow-on grant)

Nuremberg

Internationales Frauencafe, Imedana
Co-financing of the International Women’s Café

The International Women's Café offers women with an uncertain residence status counselling, escorting support and training for integration at work. Many women participate in the work themselves and for instance run the open café. The Women's Café receives funding from the European Refugee Fund (EFF).
www.internationales-frauencafe.de
Total: € 5,000 (Follow-on grant)

Hamburg

5. Hamburger Frauenhaus

www.laufend-gegen-gewalt.de
Project “2nd Benefit Run, running against violence”
On 5 July 2009 the Autonomous Hamburg Women’s Refuges organised their second benefit run “Hamburg runs against violence to women and children” round the Alster lake in the city centre. The run has a positive impact, drawing public attention to the topic of violence against women. It is to be established as a regular event in Hamburg.
Total: € 2,500
Follow-on grant

Frankfurt

Mainz

Dresden

Cologne