"AYNI" is a
Quechua / Kichua word, its meaning is reciprocity, equality and justice
from the indigenous worldview. FIMI's AYNI Fund is created and directed
by and for Indigenous Women, based on an innovative intercultural
philanthropy, which objective is to accompany and co-invest human,
financial and material resources with women of indigenous organizations
and communities, in order to achieve compliance with their Human Rights,
both individual and collective.
Leading
from the South (LFS) is a special fund created to support human rights
activism, shaped, implemented and led by organizations, groups of women
from the global south, working for political, social empowerment and
economic development of women and gender equality.
LFS
is a grant program funded by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, which is constituted as a joint program, implemented by four
women's Funds. Three of them are regional: the Women from the South Fund
(Latin America and the Caribbean), the African Women Development Fund
(Africa and the Middle East), Women's Fund Asia, and a global fund,
FIMI’S Fund AYNI, which is the first and only fund directed by and for
indigenous women in Latin America, Asia, Pacific and Africa.
Moreinfo: https://www.lfs-ayni-fimi.com/eng
