{"id":18175,"date":"2021-10-29T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pruebas.seechangeproject.org\/?p=18175"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T19:51:38","slug":"healing-processes-central-american-defenders-forum-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calala.org\/en\/blog\/procesos-sanacion-defensoras-foro-centroamericano-donantes\/","title":{"rendered":"We talked about healing processes for WHRDs at the Central American Donor Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Oct. 27, we moderated the session \u201cHealing Processes to Sustain Our Lives: Experiences from Territorial and Urban Community Feminism.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Transcript of our colleague Margarita Morales's presentation<\/h3>\n

A loving embrace to everyone, and welcome to this space for dialogue and reflection. I am Margarita Morales, responsible for programs at Calala Women's Fund, and I will be moderating this space.<\/p>\n

Ana Rivera, Fabiola Villatoro, and Lorena Cabnal are accompanying me. They are all well-known members in their communities in Honduras and Guatemala. They are part of the collectives that Calala supports in Central America. And, precisely, in this space, we will talk about the healing experiences they have promoted in their collectives.<\/p>\n

Calala is based in Spain, but the idea of creating it was born in Central America<\/h3>\n

As you know, Calala is a women's fund based in Spain, but the idea for its creation was born in Central America. Honoring this origin, we have been mobilizing flexible resources (and some not as flexible as we would like) for the Central American feminist movement for over 10 years.<\/p>\n

Our main areas of support have been for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Women Human Rights Defenders and defenders of territory, young women's groups, LGBTQI+, and Indigenous women. <\/strong>In Spain, we also mobilize resources primarily for migrant women's groups, especially those from Latin America.<\/p>\n

In these more than 10 years working in the Central American region, we have learned to always listen<\/h3>\n

In these more than 10 years working in the Central American region, at Calala we have learned many things, but fundamentally we have learned to listen. To always listen to the defenders and activists who are experiencing adverse situations firsthand, or the need to transform reality towards something more egalitarian and just.<\/p>\n

We have learned that the feminist movement is the most relevant actor in achieving women's rights. And that in order to do so, activists, groups, and movements need to be healthy, feel safe, be sustainable, and be influential. For all of this to happen requires a lot of effort, creativity, commitment, hard work, love, health, and dedication from all of them. Despite all of this, it is not enough.<\/p>\n

As funders, let's invest in the well-being of women defenders and activists.<\/h3>\n

Financial and in-kind resources are also needed, but above all, flexible resources are needed, based on the trust that each person is contributing to social change from where they can.<\/p>\n

That's what this session is about: an invitation for us, as funders, to invest in the well-being of human rights activists and defenders so that they can continue their important work in hostile contexts and shrinking democratic spaces, as has been discussed throughout yesterday at this forum.<\/p>\n

We talk about healing processes for defenders and activists from the community-territorial feminist perspective.<\/h3>\n

In this session, we will discuss healing processes from a feminist-communal perspective with Lorena, who is a Maya and X\u02bcinka activist from the TZK\u02bcAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Territorial Feminist Community in Iximulew (Guatemala). She will share her wisdom on this spiritual and political practice.<\/p>\n

We will also talk with Ana and Fabiola from Colectiva Matria, a group of young, urban, and \u201cmestiza\u201d feminists who have decided to prioritize healing as a strategy for their internal, emotional, and psychosocial sustainability. They believe this is key to their own well-being, but also to providing a better response in the communities where they work.<\/p>\n

Both experiences are connected, as TZK'AT has accompanied Matria in this healing process.<\/p>\n

They are accompanying us<\/h3>\n
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  • Ana Gabriela Rivera: <\/strong>Feminist, environmental engineer. Co-founder of Colectiva Matria, from where she fights for the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls. Since 2009, she has been a volunteer activist for women's rights and natural resources through creative street actions, collective exchanges, national coordination, and leading training and discussion processes on feminist political topics.<\/li>\n
  • Fabiola Villatoro:<\/strong> Psychology student, feminist, and activist with 7 years of experience in the Matria Collective. She facilitates workshops on sexual and reproductive rights in collaboration with CCET-Tegucigalpa. She also has experience in Sexual Health, having developed a manual in 2020 titled \u201cGrowing Without Prejudice\u201d for the Matria Collective.<\/li>\n
  • Lorena Cabnal: <\/strong>Who has contributed to the development of the epistemic proposal of \u201cHealing as a Political Cosmic Path\u201d? Since 2005, they have been presenting an approach rooted in ancestral Mayan and Xinka knowledge, incorporating elements of spirituality, ancestral medicine, feminist intentions, and community social psychology, to support cases of girls and women who are survivors of sexual violence. They accompany the emotional, physical, and spiritual recovery processes of indigenous women who are in political precarity and suffer the effects of criminalization and judicialization for defending ancestral territories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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