[AfroResistance]
The Black Latina Girls and Women Fund was created by AfroResistance, a Black Latina women-led organization in the service of Black Latinx women in the Americas.
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The “AfroResistance” organization has just announced the “Black Latina Girls and Women Fund.”
Black women and girls around the world are leading movements and creating systemic change. Now more than never, we need collective work to continue responding to local and global issues in the Americas.
The Black Latina Girls and Women Fund was created by AfroResistance, a Black Latina women-led organization in the service of Black Latinx women in the Americas. The fund is part of our mission of educating and organizing for human rights, democracy, and racial justice throughout the Americas.
This fund offers financial support by giving money directly to Black Latinx womxn, girls, and femmes who are experiencing severe financial need across the region, especially due to the COVID19 pandemic.
We acknowledge that Black womxn’s economic struggles are not necessarily new. Black girls, women, and femmes from the Americas are leading movements and creating systemic change, but they need emergency financial support both locally and internationally. Many transnational Black families that have women head of households are economically hurting because an important source of their income has been impacted by COVID-19.
Either in Brazil, Colombia, United States, or Panama, Black Latina girls, women, and femmes are organizing in their local communities in the fight against several forms of state violence, including income inequality, unequal access to health care systems, police brutality, and more.
AfroResistance is raising $100,000 to fund Black Latinxs with small grants so that they will be able to address the priorities and perspectives of their local communities in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
