UUA Holdeen India Program
This past weekend the Advisory Board of the UUA Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) met in Washington, DC. UUHIP is a very unique department of the UUA. It was established in 1984 with a mission to:
"work with organizations of India's most excluded and oppressed peoples: women; dalits, so-called "untouchables" who fall outside the caste system; and the adivasis or tribals who are India's indigenous peoples, especially migrant, bonded and landless agricultural laborers. UUHIP supports their own struggle to secure economic and social justice."For 24 years Kathy Sreedhar has been the director of UUHIP and has brought Unitarian Universalist values into action with more than 100 Indian social justice movements including:
- All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
- Asmita Collective
- Astha Santhsan
- Breakthrough
- Dalit Foundation
- Disha
- National Association of Street Vendors
- Navsarjan
- People's Watch
- Self Employed Women’s Association
- Shramajeevi Sanghatana
- Vidhayak Sansad