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The Women and War Project has been working to help women in war-torn countries around the world since 2001. Women and War began as a photo-documentary effort providing an international view of war from the perspective of the women to live it. In 2006, the Project became a non-profit organization, focusing on providing financial support for organizations helping women in war-torn areas.
The Women and Their Stories
Between 2001 and 2005, photographer/writer Melanie Stephens visited eight war-torn countries and spoke with “ordinary” women there. She coupled their first-person narratives with images of them and their environments and then presented these stories to educational, professional, civic, trade, corporate and non-profit groups, and in art galleries and museums around the country.
Through these presentations, events and fundraisers, The Women and War Project has raised thousands of dollars which has been used to help build a new women’s center in Kosova, help widows and orphans in Rwanda become self-sufficient by selling hand-made cards and jewelry, send rape survivors in Bosnia to school, rebuild Iraq, build a new center for a local cooperative in Afghanistan to make soap, help rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of Congo get the medical attention and counseling to go on with their lives, and more.
Our current focus is on making contributions to sustainable programs that help women grow economically-viable businesses within their communities.
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