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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.

The Impact of Service "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. For more 2011 feedback click here.

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The Gracanica Roma Quilt

In the summer of 2011, the Council of Europe asked AP to test out the quilting model with Roma communities outside France.  AP asked Peace Fellows Beth Wofford  and Samantha Hammer to work with AP's partners in the Czech Republic and Kosovo and identify quilters. Working through the advocacy group PROGRAEK in Prishtina, Samantha located a group of volunteers near the town of Gracanica, in Kosovo. They were able to draw on their own everyday life and show that Roma traditions can produce art of unusual delicacy. But the panels also show that many Roma women live a life of domestic drudgery. In late October 2011, Mimoza Pachuku, the coordinator of PROGRAEK, introduced the quilt to the Third International Conference of Roma Women in Granada, Spain. Watch AP's video of the exhibition, and its interview with Mimoza!

Click on the quilt below to meet the artists, and select tabs below right to see how this quilt was made and exhibited

Click on the Quit below to meet the Artists!

Follow the Quilt as it is made and assembled in Kosovo See the quilts displayed at the Third International Conference of Roma Women in Granada, Spain Meet Samantha Hammer, the Peace Fellow who organized the quilt, and read her blogs about the Roma in Kosovo.

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