Context

The Caribbean region continues to be a place teeming with life, with talent, activity and brimming with opportunity. This wealth is over-shadowed by crime and violence, which like the proverbial “bad apple” in the barrel, has the potential to destroy, in as devastating a manner as the hurricanes that visit the region.

The persistent burden of poverty on the vulnerable sectors of the population add to people’s bewilderment, surrounded as they are by affluence which they are unable to touch. Within this unequal distribution of resources, poverty is becoming increasingly feminised, and many communities are de-stabilised by violence, inadequate attention to healthcare, HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and care, inadequate disaster management processes.

These threats have provided the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action to engage in strategic advocacy programmes. Women are resisting mobilising at the grassroots, and other levels of the society to create change.

This activism takes place in an environment with severe constraints of shorgage of funds for projects, and institutional support.