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Gw/oB's Travel Seminars
Travel opportunities of interest to funders
- Submit a travel suggestion - Gw/oB's 2002 travel seminar to Honduras and Nicaragua, "Journey for Grantmakers
and Donors: Learning about Women and Sustainable Development," was
co-sponsored with the Center
for Global Education.
In 2003, Gw/oB members traveled to Haiti and participated in the
30th Anniversary Congress of the Papay Peasants' Movement. For more
on this, please read this report
or see description below.
For more information on other travel seminars, please visit the
Center for Global Education
and Global
Exchange.
Women's Delegation to Cuba and participation in the International
Women's Conference
Sponsored by US Women and Cuba Collaboration, EveryWoman's Movement
for Cuba/LELO, and the International Women's League for Peace and
Freedom
November 14th to 25th
For more information, email sbkeck@hotmail.com
The delegation will highlight women's contributions, accomplishments,
and challenges since the Cuban Revolution. Participants will explore
issues in both Havana and Pinar Del Rio provinces, with site visits
to housing projects, day care centers, maternity homes, media makers,
women's centers, economic development projects, and discussions
with women who helped create and are part of Cuba's Revolution.
Delegation to Haiti
Sponsored by Lambi Fund of Haiti
November 2nd to 9th
For more information, email Karl Ferguson at lambi@igc.org
The delegation will spend time in Port-au-Prince as well as visit
numerous Lambi projects (irrigation, grain storage, pig husbandry,
women's projects, etc.) in rural Haiti.
Delegation: "Sustainable Agriculture and Fair Trade in Cuba"
Sponsored by Global Exchange
October 18th to 27th
For more information, go to http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/forms.html
Cuba has been selected for special recognition by the United Nations
Environmental Program because of the progress it has made in creating
model programs in sustainable development, while in 1999 the Cuban
Association of Organic Agriculture received the alternative Nobel
Prize known as the "Right Livelihood" Award for its conversion
from chemical to organic agriculture. This delegation is an opportunity
to gain an understanding of Cuba's environmental policies and programs
and the significance of the Cuban model. The delegation will also
examine the issue of fair trade and international markets for organic
products.
Study Tour to Kenya
Sponsored by World Neighbors
September 23rd to October 4th
$2,500 per person, excluding airfare
For more information, email Wariko Waita at wwaita@wn.org
World Neighbors' Kenya Study Tour will seek to give participants
knowledge into the political, economic and cultural life of Kenyan
citizens, with visits to Nairobi and rural communities involved
in food banks, health systems and micro-credit lending.
Engaged Philanthropy Trip to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Sponsored by the Clarence Foundation
Roughly 10 days in late July or later, depending on participant
availability
Participants will be asked to make a minimum grantmaking commitment
of $5,000 and pay a set fee to cover all travel expenses
For more information, contact Marc Manashil, at (510) 558-7188 or
marc@theclarencefoundation.org
The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing one of the most
overlooked humanitarian crises in the world today. The Congolese
people have been suffering from a brutal civil war that has claimed
at least 3.3 million lives since it began in 1997. A small delegation
will travel to the capital, Kinshasa, and its environs (and therefore
not in the conflict zone) to meet with local people and organizations.
Delegation organizers are particularly interested in people who
wish to apply their business skills to help solve problems in highly
impoverished areas in a spirit of partnership.
Applied Human Rights Seminar-Delegation
(Central America and Chiapas)
Sponsored by Rights Action
July 25th to August 8th
For more information, email info@rightsaction.org
Focusing on Indigenous and human rights struggles and organizing
in Central America and Chiapas.
Contesting Corporate Globalization: An Educational Delegation to
Honduras
Sponsored by Rights Action
July 15th to 24th
For more information, email info@rightsaction.org
Including participation in the Regional Forum Against Dams, the
Regional Forum for Cultural and Biological Diversity, and the Regional
Forum Against Plan Puebla-Panama.
Delegation: “The Education System in Guatemala”
Sponsored by Rights Action
July 14th to 19th
For more information, email akaper@rightsaction.org
The delegation will explore the challenges faced by educators in
Guatemala and witness the alternatives they propose. The delegation
will examine obstacles that organizations confront on two levels:
firstly, at the grassroots level as educators struggle to develop
innovative materials, curriculum and methodology and, secondly,
at the policy level as community members challenge the privatization
of education without the intention of conceding community involvement.
“FACE to FACE: Exposure Trip to the Philippines 2003”
Sponsored by the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solutions
June 23rd to July 2nd
For more information, go to www.facessolutions.net
Participants will see firsthand the impact of toxic waste at the
former US military bases, meet the families fighting to protect
the health of their communities, and learn from Filipino organizers
fighting for environmental justice. Participants will examine the
larger political, economic, and social realities in the Philippines
by exploring such questions as, what is the larger impact of the
US military in the Philippines? How is the “War on Terrorism”
affecting Filipinos? What is the impact of globalization on local
communities? What role does the Philippine government play in these
and other concerns affecting marginalized communities?
Study Tour: Brazil’s Social and Cultural Movements
Led by Brazil Nut Tours
June 12th to July 1st
Cost: $2,500
For more information, contact lisa@brazilnuts.com
Brazil has spawned an array of social and cultural movements since
1985, when a twenty-five year military dictatorship gave way to
civilian government. The objective of this study tour is to observe
and speak directly with leaders and participants in a number of
these movements.
Delegation to Oaxaca and Chiapas
Sponsored by Grassroots International
April 22nd to May 2nd
For more information, email Daniel Moss at dmoss@grassrootsonline.org
The delegation will visit grassroots organizations engaged in innovative
community development and advocacy to protect their land and water
rights and to achieve food security in the challenging context of
corporate globalization. For more information on Grassroots International,
see www.grassrootsonline.org
Delegation to Haiti
Coordinated by Louise Bowditch, Director SEED in the US and Chavannes
Jean
Baptiste, Director Semence and of MPP in Haiti
March 13th to March 20th
For more information, contact louise.bowditch@verizon.net
View the Haiti
trip report
Most Americans know Haiti as the poorest country in the Hemisphere, the origin of countless news stories of despair and violence, coups and corruption. But there is another Haiti where the organized peasant movement struggles daily to defend its rights and to develop an alternative economy. The struggle for land, food, water and a role in decision-making is today being fought in many parts of Haiti but particularly in the Northeast, where a Dominican-controlled free trade zone has been proposed on prime Haitian farmland. The organized peasant movement of Haiti has long known of the threats to their food security posed by multilateral financial institutions; their indigenous Creole pig population was one of the first victims of so called free trade in the Caribbean Basin. What is the face of these struggles today in Haiti?
This delegation will meet with leaders and members of the organized peasant movement to learn about alternative economic development in the North and Northeast of the country, visit new SEED community-based development projects, and meet with organizations engaged in the struggle for land, food security, and the reversal of environmental devastation.
Following this introduction, Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), the oldest and largest peasant organization in Haiti, has invited delegates to participate in their 30th Anniversary Congress in Papay in the Central Plateau. Hundreds of Haitian peasant leaders and activists from all over Haiti will spend four days discussing the present and future of their movement. The theme of the Congress is "Thirty Years of Struggle Against Neo-liberal Politics" with a focus on the role of women and youth in this struggle and the importance of sustainable agriculture in the future of the peasant economy. While attending the Congress, the delegation will meet some of the urban organizations working in coordination with organized peasants for food security and land. For more information on SEED, see http://seedhaiti.org.
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