Our Funders and Partners:

Community Partnerships

Women Encouraging Empowerment, Inc. (WEE) is working hard to reach out and build relationships and partnerships with other immigrant and community groups, social service providers, and faith-based organizations in the area.

Our effort is to serve as a catalyst for social change in communities that are conservative and discriminate against immigrants and people of color. We are raising awareness and working with other community groups to ensure that immigrant and low-income women’s issues and problems are raised, discussed, and addressed in these communities.

In the past, we have collaborated with the Post Deportation and Human Rights Project on the ‘Know Your Rights’ participatory projects. We have planned and conducted domestic violence, immigration, deportation, child custody, and racism workshops.

The process has been documented and the documentation will be used for reporting and for articles on WEE’s work as well as for Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice annual report, publication and in larger projects on fighting the effects of detention and deportation. As part of this collaboration, WEE members will also engage in a series of activities and educational exercises for participatory and/or action research. The Post-Deportation Human Rights project is part of the Boston College’s Center for Human Rights & International Justice. The Project offers a novel and multi-tiered approach to the problem of unlawful and harsh deportation from the United States

We have also been working with groups like The Domestic Violence Task Force and Chelsea/Revere Neighborhood Developers, among others to push for both legislation and policies to maintain programs.

In the past, we have advocated for change by signing petitions, making phone calls, writing to senators, attending local government meetings, meeting elected officials, and participating in demonstrations to stop the budget cuts/protest laws that affect women and immigrant communities.

We have also given presentations at task force, community groups and schools like Boston College and Brandeis University Sustainable International Development program addressing community organizing approach to Intimate partner violence and the social justice movement.