2025
Grants approved – June 2025
Number of grants: 15
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1. Successful women of Kostolac, Kostolac
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: Empowered
The initiative aims to educate youth on protection and preventing gender based violence through peer education. Within the initiative, up to 10 girls will be trained, and, with the support of mentorship couples, they will form three groups. Each group will devise and conduct three workshops in their communities. The initiative is directed towards youth, and will be done in local environments, aiming to empower girls, raise awareness, and create a network of peer support in action against violence. Workshops will be designed and led by girls themselves, to entice their leadership, self-confidence and active participance in preventing violence.
2. Four waters, Ljubanje
RSD: 380.000
Activities’ title: Four waters: infrastructures of care and resistance
Infrastructures of care and resistance are long-term strategy for future gatherings at the connecting spot called Four waters, a village household and trans-national safe harbor for comrades, in a village called Ljubanje, next to Užice, where the collective crosses knowledge, experiences, and needs of the movements it belongs to. Through diverse collective activities – artistic, pedagogic, therapeutic and organizational; building, crafts, and collaboration with local community – the collective aims to maintain a brave intersectional space. It celebrates hospitality, collective care and curiosity, ballance between action and calm. It is focused on strengthening regional and trans-national solidarity, based on decolonial and anti-extractivist principles.
3. Women for Peace, Leskovac
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: Self-help and solidarity
This set of activities provides a safe and supportive web of services for women and girls who have experienced male violence in the territory of Jablanica district. Through SOS helpline, psychological counselling, psychotherapy, empowerment workshops, the users are provided with a pathway towards healing, empowerment and exiting violence. The aim is to create an environment where violence is not tolerated, and women get support, understanding and strength to make decisions in accordance with their own needs and dignity. The goal is a larger number of reported and proccessed cases of violence, as well as creating a community where understanding, solidarity and zero tolerance to gender-based violence prevail.
4. Girls’ Centre, Niš
RSD: 447.000
Activities’ title: The art of resistance – XII ArtFemine Festival
„The art of Resistance – XII ArtFemine Festival“ implies a multi-day festival of feminist arts and activism, which is being held for already 11 years in Niš. This year, the aim is to empower artists and activists and promote anti-fascist values through artistic, educational and activist program. It is addrssing the citizens of Niš, artists and activists, as well as wider audience. The festival uses engaged arts, info-educational and other content to contribute to generating a discussion on (anti)fascism and feminist struggle today, and broadening the space for solidarity, freedom and gender equality.
5. Humanitarian association Đina, Bačko Gradište
RSD: 374.550
Activities’ title: Comic books for Freedom: Stories and rights of Roma women
These activities, located in the Bečej municipality, gather young Roma women/girls and women with the experience of giving birth through workshops on menstrual poverty, discrimination in healthcare system and obstetric violence, with a space for self-support and exchange. Through visual expression, the collective creates a mini comic book translating their experiences and knowledge on their rights. The comic book will be printed in Serbian and Roma languages and will be distributed in the community. The initiative creates a safe space and entices transofrmative politics from bellow – from the lives of women who are most often not being heard.
6. KAO Parnas, Novi Sad
RSD: 404.100
Activities’ title: Catch the film – Women create
This year, 23rd edition of International film festival Catch the film in Novi Sad is devoted to women’s film artwork and their intersectional approach to the issue of ableism. Through at least two days of film and side program, the festival affirms artwork on disability by women authorts with and without disabilities; it impacts the reduction of ableism, racism, militarism, violence, by demonstrating and educating the universality and specificity of consequences of these peroucious social practices in various cultures; the Festival program empowers women with disabilities, providing them with specific knowledge and experience in a way accessible to them.
7. Centre for supporting local community Mome, Pirot
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: Solidarity women’s club, Pirot
Solidarity women’s club Pirot is a space where women gather, learn and socialize, exchange experiences and plan joint solidarity actions. It is a safe space where diverse contents develop based on the needs on women of Pirot from vulnerable groups, women’s achievements in all fields are being promoted, and programs contributing to the struggle against militarism, racism and fascism are being developed.
8. Association Diva, Pirot
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: Feminist school: Empowering young Roma women in Pirot district
Three-days feminist school devoted to young Roma girls from Pirot district aims to contribute to a better position of Roma women and girls in Pirot district through feminist education of young girls and women and raising public awareness about the problems faced by Roma women and girls. It focuses on empowering women from marginalized groups, primarily young Roma, promoting non-violence, freedom and self-organizing. The activities are being conducted through a school encompassing workshops, debates and groupwork, and a panel for broader audience.
9. World of words Association, Velika Plana
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: Strong YES to life! Empowered girls in struggle against gender stereotypes
The activities are the continuation of the initiatives „Strong YES to life“ Empowering girls for overcoming learned female helplessness“ and „I know! I want! I can!“ conducted by the activists in recent time, which, joined with the initiative „My life belongs to me! Girls from Serbia and Montenegro together against gender stereotypes“, a part of the association’s program for girls. The activities are devoted to girls and their mentors from high schools in Smederevska Palanka, Veliko Gradište, Požarevac and Velika Plana, and their goals are raising knowledge, and their aim is to increase knowledge on gender equality, discrimination against women, gender roles and the history of feminism; improving level of information about violence against women, with a particular focus on sexual violence and preserving bodily autonomy; empowering participants to use the obtained knowledge and share it with their peers in schools through new activities, with solidarity strengthening and building a support network.
10. Our world, our rules, Vranje
RSD: 300.000
Activities’ title: Ne dëshirojmë një hapësirë të sigurt për vajzat/ Amen mangav taj sa vojake sigurtako than/ We want safe space for girls
The initiative „Ne dëshirojmë një hapësirë të sigurt për vajzat / Amen mangav taj sa vojake sigurtako than / We want safe space for girls“ is designed for high school girls and students from the Albanian, Roma and Serbian community in Bujanovac, Preševo and Vranje. The aim of two workshops and a questionaire is to inform the participants about grooming in schools and at universities, to empower them and inform them to recognize violence, to report it, and form safe spaces for girls in educational institutions.
11. Hleb theatre, Belgrade
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: NEEDLES, SONGS, BARRICADES: Weawing the resistance
Stage play NEEDLES, SONGS, BARRICADES: Weaving the resistance will focus on exploring women’s rights in the 21st century, as well as on reminders of the significance of struggle for human rights and values – including streets and urban areas – through intergenerational musical theatre. It’s been eighty years since the first congress of Antifascist Women’s Front held in Belgrade. Although this movement was erradicated in 1953, it has left a significant trace in the process of women’s emancipation in our region. It has contributed to the struggle against fascism and women’s equality in general, as well as freedom and social liberation overall. The stage play will connect with today’s students’ protests and the role of young feminists in it.
12. Labris, Belgrade
RSD: 345.000
Activities’ title: Monograph 30 za 30
The monograph documents lives and resistance of lesbians* through 30 personal stories on the occasion of 30 years of Labris. It is devoted for general audience, LGBTIQ+ community and younger generations seeking for role models in the history of resistace. The aim is preserving lesbian history, empowering community and increasing awareness on continual struggle of lesbians for equality and freedom. The activities will be based in Belgrade, while the stories will encompass experiences of lesbians from the Western Balkans.
*Labris understands the word lesbian to describe all lesbians, bisexual and queer women, regardless of gender identities and sex.
13. Roma association of youth, Belgrade
RSD: 450.000
Activities’ title: Opre Romnji (translation: Rise up, Roma girl)
Opre Romnji is a voice of Roma women/girls who, through the power of togetherness and authentic stories, break the walls of injustice and create spaces of freedom. It is designed for empowering young Roma girls through three-days camp and a documentary Me sem zurali. Through the camp, activities provide a safe space for developing self-confidence, awareness and gender equality. The film will demonstrate our stories and challenges, aiming to break the stereotypes and promoting social justice. The activities are conducted in local communities at the level of Serbia and through media channels, amplifying voices of young Roma girls as initiators of changes.
14. Collective Action A Roof over head, Belgrade
RSD: 448.000
Activities’ title: Speak loudly and take a lawyer with you VII
Collective Action A Roof over head expands its field of struggle against unfair evictions. Communal enterprises and rich creditors are breaking the minimum of socially responsible legislations to earn on poor and discriminated against. But they don’t expect they will have the support of activists and lawyer. We continue to provide legal support for those who cannot pay for it with their own money to get liberated from unfairly blown up or non-existent debts, as we also continue to learn how to help people.
15. Befem, Belgrade
RSD: 370.000
Activities’ title: Who’s bothered by women?
BeFem will conduct the initiative „Who’s bothered by women?“ through a conference and digital campaign, with the aim of strengthening feminist politics and resistance to anti-gender narratives. In Belgrade (and in online space), the collective will gather activists, researchers, theoreticians, artists, to map the practices of resistance, solidarity, and feminist ethics of care. The campaign will translate the feminist messages into the digital space, mobilizing wider community. The activities are for everyone believing in equality, local resistance and power of joint action against increasingly present conservative tendencies.
