About the May 18 Memorial Foundation
The May 18 Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1994 to commemorate the 1980 Gwangju Uprising by continuing the Uprising’s spirit of struggle and solidarity and working towards peace and human rights throughout the world. The Foundation carries out numerous projects in various fields, including organizing memorial events, establishing scholarships, fostering research, publishing materials, dispensing funds, building international solidarity, and awarding the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.
Description:
The Grant for Democracy and Human Rights Projects Overseas (GDHRPO) 2012 supports work that contributes to promoting democracy and human rights and to building international solidarity. The grant will be awarded to non-government organizations (not GOs or individuals) based in civil communities which have been working in this field for more than 3 years.
Activities made possible by the 2011 grants included training workshops, regional seminars, national-level networking events, grassroots mobilization, rallies and much more. Issues covered include: Women's democratic education and training, development training for refugee workers, migrant workers rights protection, improved economic support for refugee workers, peace, justice and the reorganization of the student movement for demilitarization, human rights education for human rights watch, protection for child human trafficking victims in South Asia, support for human rights activists legal training projects.
The grant consists of 2 main categories:
1) Project Support and
2) Organization Support.
The May 18 Memorial Foundation will support 4 projects from 4 organizations and 2 organizations in the field of network, grassroots, and research.
Eligibility
· Any organizations which have been working for more than 3 years are eligible to apply for the Grant.
· Organizations whose country belongs to OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) will not be selected unless
the field of the organization's work is based in a developing country.
General Conditions
· Organizations can apply for both Project Support and Organization Support but cannot apply for all categories under both supports.
· An organization may be selected even if their projected budget is different to the grant amount. In this case, they must change their
budget.
· The grant amount is set by the Foundation and cannot be changed; organizations cannot ask for any amount they would like to seek.
Deadline: 24 February 2012
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