Education as inheritance
NÈGÈS MAWON established the “Antoinette Duclaire Scholarship” in partnership with the MARIJÀN Feminist Organization, the Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète (FOKAL), and the Antoinette Duclaire Foundation. The scholarship honors the memory, struggles, and legacy of Feminist activist Antoinette “Netty” Duclaire, who was murdered on June 29, 2021.
Covered from 3ème Secondaire through to Terminale, with nothing asked of the family.
The commune where Antoinette Duclaire was born and grew up.
The age at which Girls are most often taken out of school.
Not only fees: regular training sessions through the year.
Spaces to build confidence, analysis and a peer group.
Introductions and openings that a scholarship alone would not create.
NÈGÈS MAWON established the Antoinette Duclaire Scholarship in partnership with the MARIJÀN Feminist Organization, Fondasyon Konesans ak Libète (FOKAL), and the Antoinette Duclaire Foundation. The scholarship honors the memory, struggles, and legacy of Feminist activist Antoinette “Netty” Duclaire, who was murdered on June 29, 2021.
The scholarship launched in Les Cayes on 28 June 2023, in the presence of members of Antoinette Duclaire’s family, friends, former collaborators, members of the Chantal community, the schoolgirls the scholarship supports, and the press.
In a society where relations between men and Women remain toxic, and where the violence in them falls first on Women, it matters more than ever to dismantle those norms through a conscious and responsible education, and to build another imagination in their place: another relationship between human beings, where Women and men can live in dignity.
Fees are covered in full from 3ème Secondaire to Terminale, alongside continuous training, workshops and other support.
In memory
Journalist, Feminist and political activist, killed in Port-au-Prince on 29 June 2021. Three years on, the case file was lost by the prosecution and has still not been reconstituted. NÈGÈS MAWON and other Feminist organizations continue to demand that it is.
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