Developing and executing projects becomes more and more of an ecomomic necessity as funding of daily work continually decreases. But it also creates the opportunity to focus on different daily experiences and work on them through different point of views and areas of expertise.
maiz’s work was funded in 2011 by the following bodies:
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BKA – Frauenangelegenheiten und Gleichstellung |
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BM:UKK - Sektion IV - Kultur |
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BM:UKK – Sektion II - Erwachsenenbildung |
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BM f. Gesundheit |
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BM f. Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend |
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Europäische Kommission (Daphne III) |
Autonomy: maiz is independently run. maiz is not affiliated with any party, church or other form of organization.
Self-organization: The first and foremost requirement for our work is that we are self-organized. maiz is a self-organization run by migrant women with an acute awareness and critical distance from neoliberal ideas.
Collective Self-Empowerment: We address the existing structures of power and domination critically in order to change them.
maiz is – Self-organization – Participation – Autonomy – Resistance – Transformation – Utopia
We are an independent organization by and for migrant women*. Our goal is to better the living and working situation of migrant women* in Austria and to promote their political and cultural participation, as well as to transform the existing, unjust social conditions.