A Voice For the Voiceless

MISSION

The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Survivor Corps

The Survivor Corps (formerly the Landmine Survivors Network) and The Advocacy Project have joined forces to launch an ambitious program to support people who have been damaged by conflict in Central Africa but are determined to rebuild their lives. The goal of the program is to show survivors that they are not alone, and that they can rise above their trauma by working together and giving back to their communities.

This simple message has already struck a chord. Early in May, a program team visited Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi and began to identify a broad cross-section of community-based advocacy groups that work for survivors. Over the next six months, about 30 groups will be offered specialized training in human rights advocacy and information skills. The program is also ready to support a small number of campaigns that seek to place conflict survivors at the center of society, rather than treating them as a sideshow.

The program will be regularly covered in a monthly newsletter. Background information about the program’s goals, team members and relevant research can be found on these pages, together with profiles of individual survivors and contact information about advocacy groups.

This program is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.

We welcome inquiries, and will be reaching out to diaspora communities and universities in particular with speakers and promotional events.

Help us to build peace in Central Africa – one person at a time.

For more information contact Michael Moore and Mendi Njonjo.