WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT, INC.
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Keltoum
Najia
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WEE, Inc. is working very hard to reach out and build relationships and partnership with other immigrant and community groups, social service providers and faith based organizations in the area. Our effort is serve as a catalyst for social change in communities that are very conservative and discriminate against immigrants and people of color.We are raising awareness and working with other community groups in ensuring that immigrant and low-income women's issues and problems are raised, discussed and address in these communities.
We are collaborating with the Post Deportation and Human Rights Project on the Know Your Rights participatory projects. We have planned and conducted domestic violence workshops for our members and are planning other workshops on immigration, deportation, a child custody racism workshops. The process are been documented and the documentation will be use for reporting and for articles on WEE's work as well as for Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice annual report, publication and in larger project on fighting the effects of detention and deportation. As part of this collaboration, WEE member will also engage in a series of activities and educational exercises for participatory and/or action research. The Post-Deportation Human Rights project is part of the Boston College's Center for Human Rights & International Justice. The Project offers a novel and multi-tiered approach to the problem of unlawful and harsh deportation from the United States
We have also been working with groups like The Domestic Violence Task Force, Chelsea/Revere Neighborhood Developers, Centre presente, and others to push for legislatures and policies to maintain programs. We have worked, advocate, signed petitions, make phone calls and write to senators, attend meetings and local elected officials, legislators and participated in demonstrations to stop the budget cuts, signing and/or implementing of laws that will affect women and the immigrant communities. We have also make presentations at task force, community groups and schools like Boston College and Brandeis University Sustainable International Development program addressing community organizing approach to Intimate partner violence and the social justice movement.
Our work is supported by:
Nellie Mae Educational Foundation
The City of Revere
Speaker Robert DeLeo's Office
Access Strategies
​Proteus Fund
Boston Women's Fund
Burgess Urban Fund
Cummings Foundation
The Lenny Zakim Fund
Boston College Migration and Human Rights Participatory Action Research Project (MHRP PAR)
Forest Foundation
Revere on The Move (ROTM)
Haymarket People's Fund
Cradle to Crayons
Womenade Boston
The Boston Foundation
​Ben & Jerry's Foundation
​East Boston Savings Bank
The Giving Commons
Boston Jewish Community Women's Fund
​AmeriCorps New American Integration Program through The MIRA Coalition