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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:30:03 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: RE: M-FEM: Socialist Shelters? (was Queer Kids....)


Margaret wrote:
>I am a project director (with my husband) in the Newton-San Juan del Sur
>(Nicaragua) Sister City Project. Every January we go to San Juan with funds
>raised by the sister city here and help a community build a school, very
>often
>a preschool. We started this in 1989 (that is, with the Sandinista government
>still supporting the school system within the limits of the situation) and
>have gone every year since. I also work there with a medical outreach group
>run by women, and am in the process of writing (translating, sending out) a
>grant proposal with them for an adult literacy project that uses the
>resources
>of the brigadista movement. It's almost all women who do the ongoing "work of
>the revolution": teachers, health workers, future literacy teachers.
>
>	I am writing this not so much to provoke theoretical discussion
>(although I am happy to describe and analyze our work, which has become
>much more problematical since the Chamorro government took over after the
>election of 1990), but in the hope that people might help me with the
>grant proposal, particularly in suggesting foundations willing to work
>with women in Latin America. --Margaret

Wouldn't getting fundation money put severe limits to what you can do? Is
there any other way of raising the same or similar amount of money? How
much do you need? Would you also describe your projects in more detail?

Yoshie





   

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