2025
Grants approved – February 2025
Number of grants: 20
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1. Women’s association Expansion, Brodarevo
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Increasing feminist impact through educating educators and activists of rural associations of women in South-west Serbia
The aim of activities is incrasing feminist impact among women who are members of rural women’s associations, stronger bonding of women in rural areas, their empowerment to act and require better living conditions for themselves and the community where they work and live. The activities are focused on educating educators on feminism and feminist working principles to implement them in their work with rural area women and to deepen and expand feminist approach, empowering women in rural area in South-west Serbia.
2. Non-formal collective of young women from Rasina District and Sandglass NGO, Kruševac
- RSD: 443.000
- Activities’ title: Be You
„Be You“ is a set of activities addrssing young women in Rasina District to empower them, develop their self-confidence and self-consciousness, equip them with new learnings and tools to be used in daily and public life. With these activities, we wish to entice young women to question their lived reality, to identify challenges they encounter, and define needs and priorities they have. We wish to make them a part of women’s movement and participants of inter-generational (women’s) social dialogue.
3. Women for Peace, Leskovac
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Stronger Together
The activities are directed towards an all-encompassing response to gender-based violence, as a key type of non-institutional support to women and girls violence survivors. Consultations through SOS helpline and individually, face to face, psychological counselling, psychotherapeutic services, self-help groups, legal consultations are mechanisms that will be available to the association’s users. The services we will provide will contribute to a higher number of women and girls empowered to exit violence, hence to an increased number of reported and prosecuted cases of violence in partner and domestic relationships, as well as zero tolerance to violence.
4. Rural Cultural Centre Markovac
- RSD: 445.000
- Activities’ title: Home
Activist – artistic initiative „Home“ is devoted to the phenomenon of cultural life in Serbia’s villages, which are symbolized in the cultural centre’s buildings, widely built in the period after WWII, which are today subjected to neglection, deterioration, and a proof of an advanced process of centralizing culture. Objects found in the neglected Cultural centre of Markovac, as well as villagers’ testimonies and memories of periods of existent live social and cultural life, and their views of current cultural needs and possibilities to meet them, will be encompassed in a multimedia installation in the existing object of Cultural Centre.
5. Infoteka CK13, Novi Sad
- RSD: 449.000
- Activities’ title: Radical green political theory – book translating and publishing
These activities by Infoteka CK13 encompass translating and publishing three important works of radical green political theory, bringing up radical green responses to the issues of climate change, capitalism, and exploitation in general. Each of them has its own specific focus within these politics – „Desert“ deals with an analysis of potential futures within a climate catastrophe; „Against the Gendered Nightmare“ deals with the origin of patriarchy, with a special referral to its connections to Earth exploitation; while „Veganarchism“ deals with the liberation of animals. We find these perspectives important for deepening and expanding ecological/social thought in Serbia.
6. Creative-affirmative organization Parnas, Novi Sad
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Catch the film – change perspectives
Catch the film – change perspectives aims to increase awareness on disability, accessibility and public inclusion, through producing and promoting 3 videos of personal experiences of women with disabilities and organizing 5 screenings of films from International film festival Catch the film, and discussions, in 5 cities accross Serbia, centering stereotypes and prejudice against people with disabilities. The program enables new insights into the subjects of ableism, accessibility, solidarity, and it is directed towards reducing prejudice and discrimination against people with disabilities in our society.
7. Latinos en Serbia, Novi Sad
- RSD: 368.000
- Activities title: Synergy help
The aim of these activities is to support women from Latin America living in Serbia and facing legal, psychological, financial or physical challenges. The activities aim towards establishing a support network and support to women affected by family issues, migrant status or personal hardships such as illness, pregnancy, unemployment and similar. Based in Novi Sad, the activities are designed for all the women from Latin America living in Serbia who need supprt, helping them and connecting them to key resources for advancing their well-being.
8. Queer Pančevo
- RSD: 376.000
- Activities’ title: Queer Punch 2: Punching Together!
The activities, designed to last 6 months, are to empower LGBTQI+ community in Pančevo, through a continuous safe space for gathering and dsicussion, education, solidarity and activism. A special focus is on supporting youth and increasing their capacities for participations in planning process and conducting activities (Crunch, film screenings, artistic, social and educational workshops). The events will nurture experience sharing, lifting up self-confidence and self-respect, as well as inclusionary space for queer youth exploring their gender and sexual identities.
9. Centre for supporting local community „Mome“, Pirot
- RSD: 446.000
- Activities’ title: Women’s solidarity club Pirot
Women’s solidarity club Pirot is a spot where women gather, learn and socialize, exchange experiences and plan joint solidarity actions. It’s a safe space hosting diverse content, based on the needs of women from Pirot from vulnerable populations, promoting women’s achievements in all the fields and developing programs to contribute against militarism, racism and facism.
10. Roma women from villages, Pirot
- RSD: 443.000
- Activities’ title: I am brave to talk
Through conversations and a publication, we encompass diverse aspects of Roma women’s life stories with the goal of encouraging Roma women, especially young ones, for strengthening self-confidence, education, personal growth and development, as well as local community development. The activities are conducted together with Successfull women of Kostolac, to compare and complement two contexts.
11. FemIn collective, Požarevac
- RSD: 440.000
- Activities’ title: My grandma, a partisan
„My grandma, a partisan“ is an initiative exploring antifascist heritage trhough stories of descendants of women antifascists from ex Yugoslavia. Through interviews and publication, memories are being documented, women’s role in war and peace is questioned, and historical revisionism is critically overviewed. This is designed for wider audiences, especially youth, aiming to preserve collective memory and entice dialogue about the importance of antifascism today. The initiative highlights the invisible women’s struggle and their contemporary relevance.
12. Women’s Forum Prijepolje
- RSD: 200.000
- Activities’ title: Two and a half decades of activism by Women’s Forum Prijepolje
Everything that doesn’t get documented is subjected to oblivion or revisionism, taking over the results by others and erasure of women’s contributions in democratizing society, establishing gender equality and overall development of communities in which we work. With this grant, RWF supports partial activities for marking 25th anniversary of work of this significant organization.
13. Women of Polimlje, Velika Župa
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Antifascist pathways through Prijepolje
People of Prijepolje have been a part of the anti-fascist struggle in People’s liberation war, as witnessed ny numerous monuments in our surroundings. We have four WWII heroes, after which our schools are named. We live in a time when our antifascist struggle is belittled, while nationalism strengthens and poisons our youth. We are witnessing revisions of WWII history and attempting to push everything to be forgotten, although these struggles implied joint participation of youth of all religions and ethnicities. Our youth needs to know the truth about these struggles, those that make the descendants of those fighters proud.
14. Bibija, Belgrade
- RSD: 449.000
- Activities’ title: Supporting elderly Roma women violence survivors
The purpose of Supporting elderly Roma women violence survivors is providing psychosocial support to Roma women who have survived violence to be empowered to recognize violence, to report it to institutions, and seek for adequate health or social support. With these activities, we wish to incrase the awareness of local community about gender-based violence, with a particular focus on elderly Roma women and the necessity for local institutions to make an easier access for elderly Roma women/victims of gender-based violence.
15. Centre for independent living of people with disabilities, Belgrade
- RSD: 50.000
- Activities’ title: Gordana Rajkov – an icon of independent living of people with disabilities
Making a memorial plaque to honor Gordana Rajkov, a woman with disabilities who was breaking stereotypes in a predominantly male world. Gordana was one of the founders of the Dystrophy association of Yugoslavia in 1966, and of Centre for Independent Living in 1996; she was also the first person with disability to become an MP in Serbian National Assembly, serving two terms. An important point for her were women with disabilities and their multiple discrimination. The collective considers the memorial plaque in the sport where she worked from 1982 until 2022 is a symbolic gratefulness for everything Gordana has done for people with disabilities.
16. Hleb theatre, Belgrade
- RSD: 335.000
- Activities’ title: Performing „Marija Ručara“ stageplay
„Marija Ručara“ is a stageplay speaking out about the injustice faced by workers, about disrespecting workers’ and human rights. Through performing, we display injustice and situation of workers, to visibilize it in an attempt to change it. The topic is very contemporary, and needs to be shown loud and clear, the injust society we all live in in the lights of students’ protests and blockades.
17. Neon-formal collective 8th March, every day
- RSD: 371.000
- Activities’ title: 8th March protest 2025
8th March protest 2025 aims to mark International Women’s Day in accordance with feminist politics and tradition, combining a clockade, march and feminist strike. We wish to entice women – activists, feminists, workers – to engage through diverse forms of resistance in a struggle for a just society, peace, social justice, gender equality and better living conditions for everyone else in our society, especially those oppressed and vulnerable.
18. Roma youth organization of Serbia, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Reproductive health
Sexual and reproductive health are not only a matter of healthcare but also a social and political issue. Menstrual poverty is not only an economic issue but also a form of structural violence against women. Hence „Reproductive health“ is an initiative designed for young Roma girls (aged 14 to 20) from Belgrade, docused on sexual and reproductive health, menstural poverty and gender equality. Through info-educational workshops, discussions and practice, the participants will obtain knowledge of their rights and ways of advocating for changes. The aim is empowering girls to recognize and actively fight against discrimination and socio-economic barriers.
19. Association Transimage, Belgrade
- RSD: 160.000
- Activities’ title: „Film and struggle – manifests: workbook of anti-imperial struggles“, a publication
Booklet „Film and struggle – manifests: workbook of anti-imperial struggles“ introduces important film manifests of Global South to our language, showing how film art has participated in struggles against spreading the logic of capital and imperial tendencies. It is envisioned for (film) artists, cultural workers, and theoreticians, activists, students, exampling organizing of film production, distribution and screenings in accordance with anti-imperial movements and post-colonial building of infrastructures of new societies. The booklet represents an intervention in the field of regional film knowledge and offers a counter-point to the Euro-centric dominant of education and cultural paradigm, which implies male-white-middle class perspective.
20. Collective action A roof above head, Belgrade
- RSD: 448.000
- Activities’ title:Speak loudly and bring a lawyer with you VI
Collective action A roof above head expands its field of struggle against unfair evictions. Communal enterprises and rich creditors are breaking the minimal socially responsible legislations to earn on poor and discriminated against. But they don’t expect that these people will have the support of activists and lawyer. We keep on providing legal support to those who cannot afford it to set themselves free of unfairly blown up or non-existent debts, and to keep on gaining needed knowledge to support people.
