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We need your support in 2019. Here’s why.
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| Our 2018 Stories We Tell workshop in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Today, more than ever before, survivors of gender-based violence are coming forward to share their stories. They're not just asking to be heard. They're demanding that society finally, fundamentally change.
Creating change through the power of survivor storytelling is what The Voices and Faces Project is all about. And in 2018, twelve years after our non-profit was founded, we're creating more change than ever before: |
» We graduated our 680th writer from The Stories We Tell, our immersive, two-day testimonial writing program. This year, through our partnership with RefuSHE, a United Nations NGO, we brought our signature program to an extraordinary community of refugee women and girls in Nairobi, Kenya.
» We brought The Stories We Tell to court-involved and at-risk girls in Chicago. The youth-focused edition of our signature writing program has been made possible through our ongoing partnership with the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
» Through our collaboration with Rotary International, we brought our award-winning "Ugly Truth" anti-trafficking campaign to Sacramento, California. Developed by listening to the stories of sexual exploitation survivors — and praised by the European Union as one of the best gender-justice campaigns running worldwide — "The Ugly Truth" has made over 700 million audience impressions, traveled to seven US cities, and contributed to changed state and federal law on commercial sexual exploitation.
» We continue to serve in a leadership capacity at World Without Exploitation, the national coalition to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation. As part of that effort, our in-house Voices and Faces Project storytelling team is building the first-ever large-scale archive of human trafficking and sexual exploitation survivor testimony.
» We brought Marketing a Movement, a half-day advocacy training program for those seeking to use storytelling and communications to create measurable social change, to its 14th US city. Since its inception in 2016, over 1,200 activists have taken part in this interactive, half-day training.
» We published an all-new edition of LEAP, our literary journal for court-involved teens whose lives have been impacted by gender-based violence. Girl-focused and created by graduates of our Stories We Tell writing program, LEAP isn't just a magazine. It's a youth-engagement initiative and skills building program that is entering its fourth year. |
During the coming year, The Voices and Faces Project seeks to provide 100 full, two-day scholarships to survivors seeking to take part in our Stories We Tell Writing Program. We can’t do it without you.
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| Donate $100 or more before January 15, 2019, and
receive a complimentary copy of our newest issue of LEAP. |
Thanks, in advance, for your support.
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