Danka Spasovski – Feminist education is essential in peace activism

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Danka Spasovski is a licensed psychologist, consultant for women who have experienced physical, psychological, and sexual violence and trauma, and a stipend recipient of the Reconstruction Women’s Fund. As part of the campaign “Feminist Education – Fight for Peace,” we talked to her about the stipend program and the importance of feminist education today.

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Francesca Fornari: Solidarity is eliminating borders between those who give and those who receive

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Francesca was born in Italy, where she got M.A. degree in pedagogy and participated in the work of several collectives and organizations. Paths of activism and informal education brought her to Serbia, and she has been part of Volunteers` Center of Vojvodina since November 2019. In her spare, but also working time, she enjoys her pedagogical and social activities, reading, and gardening.

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Center “Living Upright”: If we invest in people or in organisation, we invest in ourselves

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Center “Living Upright” from Novi Sad represents a special place of encounters, exchange and acting, not only for disabled persons and their families but for a wider community. This kind of mutual trust takes years to build. About the struggles, achievements and challenges throughout these years we speak with Mima Ružičić-Novković, a founder and president of the Center, and Jelena Sokref, a long time member and activist.

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Alternative girls’ center: Education of girls is a crucial part of the fight for emancipation

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Alternative girls’ center was founded almost ten years ago, and has been a birth place of many important feminists, peace-building, and educational projects and actions for girls and young women in Kruševac and Rasina districts have occurred. Also, in the last couple of years it has became well-known for its feminist philanthropy campaigns to support girls. We are talking about all these topics with Jelena Memet, one of co-founders and coordinator of the Alternative girls’ center.

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Tamara Šmidling: Return to Solidarity and Trust

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Tamara Šmidling, an anthropologist, was born in Belgrade and lived for two decades in Sarajevo. Her main activist and professional focus are in the field of politics of memory and the ways in which societies address specific periods of their history, especially those periods of massive violence from the past. She is currently a program coordinator at Kvinna til Kvinna Foundation where she is dealing with questions of gender-based violence, women’s economic rights, sustainability, and strengthening of women’s and the feminist movement. 

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Paola Petrić: Solidarity is the struggle for equality and readiness to help everyone suffering injustice

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Paola Petrić is „a new woman for a new era“, Program Coordinator and  Deputy Office Director of the Regional  Office of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Paola has been dealing for years with housing policies, green economies, gender equality, and other important issues, and at the same time have also been a long-term individual donor to the women’s movement.

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Tania Turner: Which side do we act from?

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Tania Turner holds a B.A. in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). She has been a monitoring and evaluation analyst for Freedom House Mexico and Research in Health, and Demographics (Insad). She is part of Rizoma Collective, focused on recovering traditional knowledge and urban gardening.

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Tanja Bjelanović: Each act of giving is valuable

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Tanja Bjelanović, is an activist who work in the field of philanthropy and sustainable development for the last two decades. She lives what she believes in, so besides her professional enrollment she is an individual donor to many development organizations and many feminist causes. Her publication „Towards financial sustainability of civil sector organizations in Serbia“ explains new ideas and models of financing in the civil sector.

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