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The first and major activity of the Lesbian Alliance Movement—Lakas ng Kababaihan Para sa Karapatan (LAM) was welcoming foreign partners like Mama Cash along with other Mama Cash Voice grantees to their community. Mama Cash, the oldest international women’s fund which has believed in GALANG from the very beginning, created a space for sharing (read more)»»» GALANG takes pride in helping a group of lesbians in Barangay Pansol formalize their community-based organization and preparing them to manage it themselves through activities designed to develop the leadership potentials of the group’s members. By April 2011, the group had finished formulating its Constitution and by-laws. It then formed seven (7) committees: Education, (read more)»»» Pansol LBTs trooped to Balara Elementary School to actively participate in a Gender and Sexuality training on January 30, 2011 facilitated by GALANG’s adviser, Giney Villar. GALANG Executive Director Anne Lim facilitated the follow-up Gender and Sexuality training held at the same venue through the kindness of the school principal, Dr. Wilma P. Rosal, (read more)»»» Devi Leiper, Program Associate in the Asia/Oceania Program of the Global Fund for Women, visited the GALANG office to meet with GALANG staff on February 1, 2011. The Global Fund for Women, a US-based foundation that advances women’s human rights by funding women-led organizations worldwide, supports GALANG’s work with urban poor LBTs in the (read more)»»» Fresh from their successful fundraising activity, GALANG’s grassroots partners ended the year on a high note when they organized their first Xmas party for their families and friends on December 23, 2010. The LBTs were gracious hosts to their guests which included GALANG leaders and staff as well as local personalities from the area. They (read more)»»» |