Our fellows are able to have enriching and successful fellowship experiences because of the grassroots organizations that host them. The SoT Campaign partners with established organizations on the ground and can immerse the fellows in field experience. Our fellows greatly benefit from the experience of working alongside colleagues in the field of their choice, facing the same challenges they face on a daily basis.
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- The Secretary of Public Education
- Region: Mexico, Central America
- Issues: Education
- Mission Statement: The Secretary of Education is responsible for the organization, management, and development of public, incorporated, or officially recognized schools, and to make sure that all requirements related to preschool, primary, secondary, technical and normal education as established by the Constitution are observed and completed, and to prescribe the norms to which the incorporation of particular schools in the national educational system should adjust. Mexico City's public schools have the curriculum established by the secretary and the funding made by the city.
- The Secretary of Health
- Region: Mexico, Central America
- Issues: Public Health
- Mission Statement: The Secretary of Health's mission is to ontribute to a sustainable inclusive, just, and human development, by means of the promotion of the health as social objective shared and the universal access to high-quality and integral services that satisfy the needs and they respond to the expectations of the population, to the time that offer opportunities of professional advance to the lenders, in the framework of a fair financing, an efficient, transparent, and honest use of the resources, and Extensive civic participation.
- CARE
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Gender, Poverty, Public Health
- Mission Statement: CARE is a leading humanitarian organization
fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor
women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power
to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are
at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education,
prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation,
expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.
CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives. Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility.
- Institute for Democracy in South Africa
- Region: South Africa, Africa
- Issues: Capacity Building, Tolerance
- Mission Statement: Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy based on active citizenship, democratic institutions, and social justice. IDASA is a nationally recognised public interest organisation in South Africa. It maintains international links with many similar organisations through the world movement for democracy.
- Breakthrough
- Region: U.S.A., North America & Pakistan, Asia
- Issues: Education, Human Rights, Media, Transitional & Restorative
Justice
- Mission Statement: Breakthrough is an international human rights
organization that uses media, education and pop culture to promote values
of dignity, equality and justice. Our organization uses creative tools to
teach others about human rights. These rights make up the daily fabric of
our lives, of how we tend to live individually and as a community.
The rights to life, food, shelter, freedom of expression, freedom from violence, religious freedom - these are all human rights to which we are all entitled. The United Nations has codified many human rights in documents called conventions and treaties, which are ratified by member countries that promise to adhere by their rules. They are described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Guaranteeing these rights for us and for others is what building a human rights culture is all about.
- Projecto Mentes e Portas Albertas (POMPA)
- Region: Brazil, South America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Children & Youth
- Mission Statement: Provides training for African-Brazilian students to become leaders in the public arena to foster constructive change within their communities. Working to empower citizens, especially youth, with respect to police activities in poor communities in Brazil.
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization
of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human
rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community. We
understand that the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy
and capitalism have been at the root of our people's oppression.
We understand that without community control and without the power to determine our own lives, we will continue to fall victim to genocide. Therefore, we seek to heighten our consciousness about self-determination as a human right and a solution to our colonization. While organizing around our principles of unity, we are building a network of Black/New Afrikan activists and organizers committed to the protracted struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation - By Any Means Necessary!
- UNICEF Child Protection Unit Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office
- Region: Kenya, Africa
- Issues: Children & Youth, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young. We believe that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind - to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child's path. We believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.
- Stichting Russian Justice Initiative
- Region: Russia, Europe/Asia
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Russian Justice Initiative is a groundbreaking initiative that utilizes domestic and international legal mechanisms to seek redress for human rights abuses committed in the North Caucasus. Together with its implementing partner, Pravovaia Initsiativa (Ingushetia), RJI provides free legal counsel to victims of human rights violations and their families. The organization's lawyers and researchers investigate incidents of arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions and bring these cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
- CIMADE
- Region: France, Europe
- Issues: Refugees, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Each year, the Cimade welcomes and accompanies
several tens of thousands of migrants and petitioners of refuge in its permanence.
The Cimade contributes to their insert by the organization of specific formations.
It accommodates equally close to 200 persons per year in its two centers
of welcome of Béziers and of Massy.
Facing a legislation always more complex and more restrictive, the Cimade brings its expertise and its counsel to the foreigners so that they can exercise their rights. Intervening in the centers of administrative retention, it is loaded by the authorities of a mission of accompaniment and of defense of the rights of the constrained foreigners to leave the territory. Because it is necessary to let the law evolve and the mentalities, it campaigns more generally for the defense of the basic rights of the foreigners and the respect of their dignity.
To their side to the Newspaper, the Cimade can indicate what they live and difficulties that they meet. Because to welcome the foreigner is equally to understand from which it comes, the Cimade supports partners in countries of the South around projects linked to the defense of the basic rights, to the assistance to the refugees or to the support to the renewed persons in their country. It gives henceforth priority to the reinforcement and to the work with the civil corporations of the South and North for the defense of the rights of the migrant ones.
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