Queer Haitians are organizing for their rights and dignity in a hostile environment. And Grassroots International, through our Martín-Baró Initiative, is providing resources for the community to organize, heal, and connect.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are uplifting the work of the Martín-Baró Initiative (MBI) and the many ways that women have used their voices.
Support the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights as it advances social reparation and support the collective power of communities to recover from experiences of violence, injustice and repression.
In their Fall 2021 newsletter, learn how the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing & Human Rights is fostering psychosocial well-being and social change.
We are delighted to announce the first round of grants by the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights (MBI). A vital initiative of Grassroots International, MBI integrates human rights with community health and wellbeing in response to political repression, structural violence and social injustice.
Story-telling and art can be powerful tools for collective healing and resistance — as seen in AgitArte's “End the debt! Decolonize! Liberate Puerto Rico! Scroll" project.
Ayman Nijim, Ph.D. candidate in Liberation Psychology and Transformative Social Change and Grassroots International’s Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East, writes how Liberation Psychology can support the healing and liberation of Palestine. This is the first in a multi-part series on psychology and liberation from Ayman.
Ignacio Martín-Baró's vision was to generate a “psychology of the people” — one grounded in the understandings of buen vivir from Salvadoran peasants.
We live in a sick system, and people and the planet need healing. Our partners are leading the way with healing justice.
Like many of my generation, my political awakening centered around three events in the 1980s: anti-apartheid activism, AIDS, and US intervention in Central America. It is with a real sensation of deja vu that I again see all three of...
Towards increasing the breadth and depth of our activism and solidarity, the MBF announces our transition to a new partnership with Grassroots International.
Martín-Baró Initiative provides a way to integrate human rights with community health and wellbeing, particularly among those severely harmed by political repression, structural violence and social injustice. Working closely with a group of volunteers, including psychologists, academics and activists, the...
Today, thirty years later, my memory has been dissipating that horror and now, in the midst of the confusion of having aged, I only seem to hear your voice, serene and vital, summoning me to an impossible new existence without limits of time and space.
It was the hope of Nacho, and remains the hope of the Fund today as it transitions to an Initiative at Grassroots International, that through the fostering of psychosocial wellbeing and the pursuit of social reparations, society can begin to heal from its painful past and move towards a more equitable future.
