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Race and Reconciliation
General Purposes: Umtapo Centre
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General Purposes
March, 2011
Amount: $150,000
Grant Period: 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2012
Program: Civil Society
Program Area: South Africa
Geographic Focus: South Africa: South Africa (At Large)

Umtapo Centre builds the leadership capacity of children, the youth, and community leaders to engage in critical dialogue on issues of peace, rights and responsibilities, and citizenship. Past support from Mott enabled Umtapo Centre to train youth in schools on peace and antiracism; set up peace resource centers in schools; establish an alumni association for former participants in its programs; conduct several Peace, Human Rights, and Anti-racism Education training courses for out-of-school youth and community leaders; prepare various promotional materials; produce a documentary on Ubuntu, an African value-based way of life; and convene a national conference on Ubuntu, antiracism, anti-xenophobia, and moral regeneration. This grant will continue to provide general support to Umtapo to implement its peace and antiracism programs.


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Race and Reconciliation

We fund nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in South Africa and the Western Balkans (specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia) to overcome legacies of violent ethnic or racial conflicts. Our grantmaking supports a variety of processes to address past discrimination and abuses, respect diversity, and promote healing and reconciliation.
 
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Michael Lapsley: Reflect on our words and their effect
Freedom fighter Oliver Tambo chose words deliberately during the apartheid era – because he cared how listeners might interpret them, says Fr. Michael Lapsley, director of the Institute for Healing of Memories, a Mott grantee. Read Lapsley’s challenge to South Africans to take responsibility for the words they utter.