Grantee-Partners Map
In the 10 years since our launch in 2012, Red Umbrella Fund has given 279 grants to 180 organisations in 68 countries. Every year we share our list of grants including the names of the grantee-partner organisations that request to be published on our website. Organisations that wish to stay anonymous do not have their name or country publicly available. Please contact us if you would like to contact any of our former-grantees or discuss their work.
In 2022 Red Umbrella Fund’s PAC awarded €1,300,000 – our first time giving more than a million in a single year – bringing total grants to €7,886,500!
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Asociacion de las Prostitutas del Estado de Piaui (APROSPI)
Asociacion de las Prostitutas del Estado de Piaui (APROSPI)Brazil Local, Subnational English This self-led group of women sex workers was created in 2008 to advocate for sex workers’ rights and work together with other social justice movements amongst others. With the grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation will work on a documentary to raise the visibility of the realities faced by sex workers in the state of Piauí, Brazil.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2021 |
Associação Mulheres Guerreiras
Associação Mulheres GuerreirasBrazil Local Spanish This group of women and trans* sex workers in Campinas aims to end violence from police officers, and tackles stigma and discrimination against sex workers. The group builds solidarity among sex workers, including sex workers living with HIV, particularly in Jardim Itatinga, one of the largest urban sex worker zones in Latin America. Mulheres Guerreiras mobilises sex workers and supporters using arts and cultural events, and engages directly with key decision makers to influence policy and implementation. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2014 |
Associação Mulheres Guerreiras
Associação Mulheres GuerreirasBrazil Local Spanish Associação Mulheres Guerreiras is a group of sex workers in Campinas, Brazil that aims to end police violence, and tackles stigma and discrimination against cis and trans women sex workers. The group builds solidarity among sex workers, including sex workers living with HIV, in Jardim Itatinga, one of the largest urban sex worker zones in Latin America. Mulheres Guerreiras mobilises sex workers and supporters using arts and cultural events, and engages directly with key decision makers to influence policy and law enforcement. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2016 |
Associação Mulheres Guerreiras
Associação Mulheres GuerreirasBrazil Local English Formed in 2005, Associação Mulheres Guerreiras aims to promote sex workers’ human rights through addressing stigma and discrimination and advocating for law reform. Based in Campinas, the organisation provides legal support and healthcare training locally and supports national advocacy efforts. The group welcomes all sex workers and has a membership of mainly black and trans sex workers. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2020 |
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)Brazil Local Spanish This sex worker-led group in the State of Paraiba in in the Northeast of Brazil was set up in 1987. CIPMAC speaks out on the right to self-organize, sex workers’ rights and social justice. With this grant the group will build sex workers’ understanding of politics and human rights and organize meetings to influence government representatives at municipal and state levels The group is well connected to the wider sex workers’ rights movement in the country.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2019 |
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)Brazil Local, Subnational Spanish This sex worker-led group in the State of Paraiba in in the north-east of Brazil was set up in 1987. CIPMAC speaks out on the right to self-organize, sex workers’ rights and social justice. With this grant the group will organise workshops on human rights, organise webinars, strengthen its organisation and produce communication materials.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2021 |
Coletivo Clã das Lobas
Coletivo Clã das LobasBrazil local Spanish Coletivo Clã das Lobas is a non-profit collective founded in 2018 by sex workers who work in hotels, streets and avenues of Belo Horizonte and its metropolitan region in Brazil. The organisation was founded from the need to work with sex workers with a focus on wellbeing. With this grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to cover some core costs, maintain its safe space, work to see about potentially registering and organise workshops on responding to violence, Human Rights and advocacy.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2022 |
Coletivo Rebu – Minas Gerais
Coletivo Rebu – Minas GeraisBrazil Local Spanish This group was established in 2015 to benefit cis, trans and transvestite sex workers working on the streets and in hotels in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Coletivo Rebu organises conversation circles with sex workers in hotel venues, conducts outreach work, distributes condoms and lubricants, and gives information regarding health prevention and sexual and reproductive rights of sex workers. The group advocates at the city, regional and state levels for the rights of sex workers. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2018 |
Coletivo Rebu – Minas Gerais
Coletivo Rebu – Minas GeraisBrazil Local Spanish Created in 2015, Colectivo Rebu’s mission is to combat violence, strengthen new leadership, and defend the rights of women sex workers (including transvestites and trans sex workers) in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Besides advocating at local and state level for the rights of sex workers, the organisation organises conversation circles with sex workers, distributes condoms and lubricants, and gives information regarding health prevention and sexual and reproductive rights to sex workers. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2020 |
Davida
DavidaBrazil Local English This organisation focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and improving the legal status and labour conditions of sex workers in the country. A draft bill to decriminalise and regulate sex work has been named in honour of the founder of the organisation, the late Gabriela Leite. In 2005, Davida launched the fashion line Daspu, which serves as an income-generating activity and also an advocacy strategy. Davida’s magazine, Beiji da Rua, reaches thousands of sex workers, allies and decision makers around the country. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2013 |
EntrePutxs
EntrePutxsPuerto Rico local Spanish EntrePutxs works to create alternative spaces and practices for sex workers where their wants and needs are prioritised. The organisation seeks to continue creating spaces where sex workers can be in community, collaborate, facilitate workshops & healing circles, coordinate events, panels and give not only platform but also resources to sex workers. With this grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation intends to create a podcast, a cabaret and a support fund for sex workers.
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Puerto Rico | North America/Caribbean | 2022 |
Goreto Nepal
Goreto NepalNepal Local English In a context where buying sex is criminalised, this sex worker-led organisation working in the Pokhara valley of Nepal aims to end stigma and discrimination faced by women sex workers and their children through community mobilisation, advocacy activities and alliance building.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2020 |
Grupo de Mulheres Prostitutas do Estado Pará (GEMPAC)
Grupo de Mulheres Prostitutas do Estado Pará (GEMPAC)Brazil Local English Founded over 20 years ago, GEMPAC works in the state of Pará in northern Brazil, mobilising women sex workers to confront violence and to challenge the stigma surrounding sex work. The group partners with artists to organise cultural events and uses visual arts as part of its fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2012 |
Jagriti Mahila Mahasangha (JMM)
Jagriti Mahila Mahasangha (JMM)Nepal Local, Subnational, National English This network unites 27 community-based organisations of women sex workers in 22 districts of Nepal. JMMS raises awareness among sex workers about HIV and works to end violence against sex workers perpetrated by police, institutions, clients and intimate partners. The network provides legal counselling to sex workers and supports them with filing complaints with the police. At the national level, JMMS engages in CEDAW reporting processes and advocates against laws and policies that discriminate against sex workers and criminalise them.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2018 |
Mahila Sahayogi Samuha
Mahila Sahayogi SamuhaNepal local English Mahila Sahayogi Samuha was set up in 2008 to address the specific needs of female sex workers in the East of Nepal. The organisation now has over 500 members and works to strengthen sex workers’ knowledge of their human rights to end stigma and violence through advocacy, alliances and community mobilisation. Learn more
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Mahila Sahayogi Samuha (MSS)
Mahila Sahayogi Samuha (MSS)Nepal Local English This local self-led organisation in the east of the country was set up in 2008 to address the specific needs of female sex workers. The group includes sex workers living with HIV and people who use drugs and the majority of its more than 300 members are illiterate. MSS works to build sex workers’ understanding of human rights. The group is connected to other sex worker groups and allies and reaches out to the local government to end stigma and violence against sex workers and increase the recognition of sex work as work among service providers and government.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |
Minas Gerais Prostitute’s Association (APROSMIG)
Minas Gerais Prostitute’s Association (APROSMIG)Brazil Local English This group reaches over 2000 women sex workers in the Brazilian state of Minais Gerais through language classes, condom distribution, HIV awareness messages, seminars, and public demonstrations to bring attention to the citizenship and rights of sex workers. This group organises special meetings for new sex workers as well as for older (50 plus) sex workers. The Red Umbrella Fund grant will contribute to strengthening the organisational capacities through regular meetings and trainings for its staff and members.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2013 |
Nijgadh Mahila Samuha (NMS)
Nijgadh Mahila Samuha (NMS)Nepal local English This sex worker-led organisation formed in 2009 works locally in Nepal to strengthen the capacity of female sex workers through advocacy, leadership and networking ultimately strengthening the feminist movement as a whole.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Sangharsha Mahila Samuha (SMS)
Sangharsha Mahila Samuha (SMS)Nepal Local, Subnational English This women-led sex worker organisation in Bhaktapur District in the east of the Kathmandu Valley was set up in 2010 to promote the health and human rights of sex workers. The group works together with other organisations to improve access for sex workers to health services including HIV and STI treatment and safe abortion services. SMS will take action during the international 16 days of activism against gender based violence campaign to address violence against sex workers.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |