Healing Justice Solidarity Encounter

Healing Justice Solidarity Encounter
Virtual Event

Thursday, November 6, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

Traducción al español aquí.

Join us on Thursday, November 6 to hear from our grantees about how they are working to advance healing and well-being in their communities. Working closely with a group of volunteers – including psychologists, researchers, teachers, students, and activists – the Martín-Baró Initiative for Wellbeing and Human Rights (MBI) at Grassroots International provides grants to grassroots efforts in communities affected by institutional violence, repression, and social injustice. These projects promote psychological wellbeing, social consciousness, political resistance, and social justice – often drawing from ancestral knowledge and practices.

This conversation will feature Sandra Moran along with representatives from our grantees Buena Semilla (Good Seed) and Fundación Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas (The Bartolomé de las Casas Center and Foundation (CBC)).

Sandra Moran, feminist activist and revolutionary popular educator, is the coordinator of the International Feminist Organizing School (IFOS), political coordinator of the Alliance of Women and Indigenous Women in Guatemala and of the MMPC: For a Plurinational State for Good Living.

Buena Semilla (Good Seed) is a grassroots collective based in Guatemala that supports marginalized Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and their communities in their quest to reclaim their voice, wellbeing, self-authority and self-determination. The grant from Grassroots International expanded the Women’s Circles, which provided mental, physical, and social health support for over 200 Indigenous women, indirectly benefiting more than 2,000 family members and their communities. Watch this 3-minute video to learn more about the Women’s Circles and the work of Buena Semilla.

Fundación Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas (The Bartolomé de las Casas Center and Foundation (CBC)) was created in El Salvador to help heal communities affected by conflict. Grants from Grassroots International supported Nuku Yolb’e, a dialogue and exchange among survivors from two different towns: Chalatenango, El Salvador, and Quiché, Guatemala. The project links the two communities, both with pasts of military dictatorships and grave structural injustices, in conversation to explore and redefine collective memory. CBC creates the space for an exchange of experience and wisdom in a community radio format.