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The Violation of My Rights: Our Failed Relationship 

I want to talk to you about our relationship, because my partner is enclosed in a vessel on which my community is sitting, my family, my traditions, my culture, my country, and the whole world is sitting. My partner’s name is My Rights.

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Christina Mallie Christina Mallie

Those Closest to the Problem are Closest to the Solution

Those Closest to the Problem are Closest to the Solution: Dialogue was the main focus of this first phase of the Girl Awakening Program in Goma, DR Congo, reflecting our commitment to social justice and to shift the resources and decision-making into the hands of local communities where we work.

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Christina Mallie Christina Mallie

Creative Assets and Program Content Guide Launched

The Adolescent Girl and Creativity Network (AGCN) launched a Creative Assets and Program Content Guide commissioned by the Population Council. This guide includes thirteen creative assets and fifty activities – program content – to build social and emotional learning, mitigate and manage trauma, and promote healing for adolescent girls.

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Christina Mallie Christina Mallie

Letter from the Co-Founders

Colors of Connection is founded on the principles of social justice and equality. As a US-based organization, we feel it is important to acknowledge the deep pain and fear that we are experiencing in this country right now following the recent death of Mr. George Floyd as a result of systemic racism.

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Christina Mallie Christina Mallie

COVID-19 Update from Goma, DRC

A local group of young women and girls, M’shujarts, has been raising awareness about COVID-19 and supporting eachother. M’shujarts is about 20 in number, all who participated in CC programs in the past and have since formed their own girls art collective that promotes gender equality through public art in Goma, DRC.

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Christina Mallie Christina Mallie

Adolescent Girls Community of Practice Training in New York

Population Council Adolescent Girls Community of Practice Training in New York: Last week as Program Director and Co-Founder i met with other like-minded organizations at the Population Council in NYC for a two-day training on girl-centered program design.

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Christina Mallie Christina Mallie

InSEA World Congress 2019, Vancouver Brittish Columbia

InSEA World Congress July 2019, Vancouver BC: In line with the theme of the conference, “Making,” and the sub-theme, “indigenization of art education”, the purpose of the presentation was to consider the indigenization of art education in the context of Colors of Connection, which we describe as a kind of socially engaged art that is transpedegogical in nature

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