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METRO MANILA LGBTQ-PRIDE (MM
Title of Project: Equip, Educate, and Empower to Action
Metro Manila Pride is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that educates, equips and empowers the LGBTQIA+ Filipino and their communities to work towards a future that recognizes and respects the rights of LGBTQIA+ persons to a dignified life without discrimination and prejudice. The organization is committed to the following: • Human Rights: We move, act, and decide with human rights as our compass and north star. Justice and intersectionality are at the core of our activism. • Nurturing Learning: We value constant growth and learning as activists who seek continuous education. We offer communications and activities that inform, listen, and encourage. • Sustainable Action: We focus on effective actions that are impactful, adaptable, and sustainable. • Accountability and Transparency: We have integrity and credibility in dealing with our external partners, as well as our internal organizational processes. • Inclusive collaboration: We make it easy for people and groups to participate and collaborate with us regardless of capability and background. The Equip, Educate, and Empower to Action project trains LGBTQIA+ human rights advocates to use an intersectional approach in their activism. Metro Manila Pride discovered that many of the people they reach are hungry for opportunities to learn about human rights and about the specific issues being faced as LGBTQI+ people. However, there are limited opportunities for them to learn about this as they are mostly young LGBTQI+ people who do not belong to LGBTQI+ organizations. In this project, Metro Manila Pride (MMPride) makes educational human rights spaces more accessible to young people, many of whom are potential LGBTQI+ rights advocates waiting to be moved to action. Aside from learning about local LGBTQI+ issues, they are also integrating other local human rights issues, especially with the increasingly dangerous human rights situation in the Philippines. MMPride strives to ensure more LGBTQI+ human rights advocates understand how the oppression of other marginalized groups intersect with their own and why it is imperative to reach across sectors and stand in solidarity against the human rights violations.
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