2024
Grants approved – October 2024
Number of grants: 13
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1. Roma Women’s Association „Nada“, Aleksinac
- RSD: 440.000
- Activities’ title: General support
Through this grant, the collective is being supported for field and direct work with the Roma community, focusing on women and girls, through general activities of the organization: psychological workshops, educations about violence, direct informing about support and protection, promoting SOS helpline, and street actions.
2. „Expansion“ association, Brodarevo
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: A step towards empowerment of rural women from Municipality of Prijepolje and connection of rural women from south-western Serbia
The activities are devoted to women from rural organizations of Municipality of Prijepolje: Expansion from Brodarevo, Kamenogorke from Kamena Gora and Joyfulness of Polimlje fom Ivanja, as well as to women from rural association in south-western Serbia. The aim of the activities is stronger connection of women from rural areas, their empowerment to act and ask for better living conditions for them and the communities in which they live and work. Through organizing and uniting these women, the organizers are crossing the limits and creating climate for continuous collaboration and joint action planning, contrary to confining women and their gathering within family rituals and celebrations where women are instrumentalized through exhausting labour.
3. Piskolovka, Kragujevac
- RSD: 200.000
- Activities’ title: Marko Kraljević gets an invitation for serving the army… And some other stories
These activities gather 15 writers to write short stories with Marko Kraljević as a protagonist. Stories’ subjects are going to be tightly related to militarism, nationalism, machism, position of women in militarist society, environmental consequences of militarism. Young authors will firstly be prepared through workshops on folcloristics of Marko Kraljević and building a literary character, and workshops on nationalism and militarism as political occurences, and development of literary narrative. Writing will be conducted with mentors’ support, and such written antology will look for its place in publishing.
4. Women for Peace, Leskovac
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Visibilize the invisible
The activities are aimed at a holistic response to gender-based violence, through consultation on SOS helpline, psychological support, psychotherapy services, self-help groups and focus groups, devoted to women with the experience of violence. In their years-long of practice, the groups has encountered virtually every form of violence, hence it claims that the tolerance to threats with physical violence or murder and to all forms of violent behaviors is high in their community. Services provided to users will contribute to a higher number of empowered women and girls to exit violence, and to the higher number of reported and processed cases of domestic and partnership violence, as well as zero-tolerance to violence. Providing independent, high-quality, accessible and free services for supporting women and girls survivors of male violence in the Jablanica district.
5. Centre for Girls, Niš
- RSD: 421.000
- Activities’ title: Let’s stop murdering of women – A step further in combating femicide
The aim of activities Let’s stop murdering of women – A step further in combating femicide is to contribute the efforts for femicide to be recognized as a special criminal act, through informing citizens about the issue of femicide and their role in advocating for changes, about how and where they can seek support. The project is the continuation of previous activities, Let’s stop murdering of women – For a better legislation on femicide, conducted in Southern Serbia. Now the focus will be in eastern cities, where women’s organizations are not accessible enough to women citizens, and civil organizing is made difficult.
6. Centre for supporting local community „Mome“, Pirot
- RSD: 440.000
- Activities’ title: Solidarity women’s club
Solidarity women’s club Pirot is a place being established, where women will meet, learn and socialize, exchange experiences and plan joint solidarity actions. It is a safe space where different programs will be held, in accordance with the needs of women in Pirot, belonging to vulnerable groups, and where women’s achievements in all the fields will be promoted, and where the group will be developing programs contributing the struggle against militarism, racism and fascism.
7. Children’s Centre, Zaječar
- RSD: 448.700
- Activities’ title: Start the change
#StartTheChange program aims to increase visibility of women artists with disabilities, hence enticing inclusive practices in cultural institutions and employing people with disabilities based on their capacities. Six artists from four cities will create a campaign with the support of a producer and journalism student. Final discussion, with the participants of experts, artists and activists, will be held in the City Theatre in Ruma. The campaign will highlight that inclusive society implies „open labor market“ and participation of people with disabilities in the general market, not in closed or protected forms of employment.
8. Vox feminae, Zrenjanin
- RSD: 449.500
- Activities’ title: Promotion and translation of „Vox feminae“ documentary
Vox Feminae, a documentary made with the support of RWF, documents testimonies of 10 completely different women who have, reading local and international news, spontaneously gathered and tried, each in her own way, to support the evacuation of several hundreds of workers from Vietnam from, as it later turned out, the biggest labor camp in Europe. Until now, film screenings have enticed interest of journalists, activists and academics, in Serbia and abroad. The intention is to use the spoken word and translation to English to present the documentary to those who could not understand it due to language barrier, but also to use direct communication and show a potential scenario of foreign investors, enabled by hosting countries, treating workers like slaves. Vox Feminae also tackles non-transparency of the investment and the lack of knowledge about project’s impact on the environment and public health of local community, so this makes another important subject emerging throigh conversations after screenings.
9. Street Drummers, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Street Drummers are empowering themselves!
The aim of the activities is a contribution to further building and strengthening of feminist movement in Serbia and empowering women to step up and raise their voices in public spaces. Street Drummers’ activities aim to continuously maintain and additionally prepare the drummers not only for the 8th March protest but also for other protests and events where similar in values, where they regularly show up.
10. Feminist Antifascist Network Serbia – FAMa, Belgrade
- RSD: 447.000
- Activities’ title: Antifascist Women’s Front of Serbia – 80 years of struggle for equality
The activities are devoted to the 80th anniversary of establishing the Antifascist Women’s front of Serbia (28th January 2025). The goal is to mark one of the most important events in the history of women’s emancipation in Serbia and hence contribute to strengthening contemporary antifascist and feminist movements in Serbi and wider ex-Yugoslav region. The activities will have two phases: 1) several events throughout Serbia presenting stories of our brave women ancestors (through personal stories and research); 2) Ceremonial academy gathering women from as many places as possible, of diverse identities, ages, working experience.
11. An initiative for accessible healthcare & Group of mutual support for activists, Belgrade
- RSD: 450.000
- Activities’ title: Borka from the verb boriti (to fight)
This action is devised with the intention to, during the lifetime of Borka Vasić, document her life story, contribute to the preservation of history of Roma women’s activism. Borka is an activist who has been active for decades, bravely fighting for the rights of women and Roma community, confronting racism, corruption, discrimination and militarization. In addition, the collective is forming the foundations of a fund that would enable her with a peaceful and dignified old age. The action also implies making a mural with her face on the facade of one of the city buildings, documenting her life story, and conducting series of informative activities to introduce the broader public to her activist engagement and contributions. Supplying the fund should also improve and develop a model of care about community members that we owe much.
12. Rebellious readers, Belgrade
- RSD: 440.000
- Activities’ title: Štefica Cvek – Post-Yugoslav choice of feminist, queer and rebellious literature
Štefica Cvek is a non-competitive regional choice of literature. It is a selection of the best works written in BHSC and Macedonian language from the previous publishing year, written from the position of feminist, antifascist, ecological, anti-colonial and other leftist perspectives. The goal of this choice is an intervention into the mainstream regional literatures which do not recognize feminist and queer literature as artistically valuable pieces, but which also marginalize progressive poetics. Štefica Cvek is organized by Rebelious readers from Serbia, Booksa/Kulturtreger from Croatia, Naratorium from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Coalition Margines from Northern Macedonia.
12. Women in Black, Belgrade
- RSD: 443.430
- Activities’ title: „The summer of Ramiz“ – a documentary about Ramiz Berbić and „Otcasts“ – book of poetry by Ramiz Berbić
The story/documentary follows Ramiz Berbić in his peace activism in Tuzla from the beginning of May until 25th May, when the killings at Gate of Tuzla are being marked. The killings were conducted by the forces of Bosnian Serbs (25. May 1995) murdering 71 people, and injuring 240. The story follows Ramiz’s standing at the central square and comemoration of victims. It continues with his LGBT poems, going to Pride parade in Sarajevo, hiking at Majevica where he rests, Peace March which he took part in 18th time this year, and ends with the promotion of his poetry book. The story follows a regular summer in life of Ramiz. His regular summer is far from the perception of summer.
