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The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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"Speaking with locals and living in a country is the best way to learn about the real lives of citizens, not just the stories in the mainstream media. I will be more critical of what I read as a result of this experience. I also feel even more grateful for my education, and I feel a stronger responsibility to assist others who do not have resources or access to opportunities in their communities."

Maria Skouras (New York University) volunteered in 2011 as a Peace Fellow for eHomemakers in Malaysia.

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Help Girls in Afghanistan

Help girls in Afghanistan work with American high school students in developing a handicrafts project in girls' schools in Kabul

Although insecurity again threatens Afghanistan, AP’s partners continue to propose innovative solutions. The Afghan Women’s Network Youth Committee, an AP partner since 2003, is developing a program to support a handicrafts program in several overcrowded girls’ schools in Kabul.

The project will train students to make dolls in traditional Afghan clothing. The dolls will then be shipped to the US where high school students are signing up to use the dolls in classroom projects with support from AP.


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Maihan and Farida (right), members of AWN's Youth Comittee, show off the dolls that were made at their school in Kabul. The group hopes to help the school to develop a handicrafts project and promote it in the United States.










Faidah, one of the leaders at the school, talks about her studies and work with the Afghan Women's Network. (Video by Iain Guest)







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