Amalia Fischer, general coordinator of the ELAS Fund, was honored on Wednesday, March 9, at the 4th edition of the Nise da Silveira Award, an initiative of the Rio de Janeiro Secretariat for Women's Policies that celebrates the performance of prominent women in the Rio de Janeiro scene.
Amália received the Mandala Nise de Silveira, sculpted by the Minas Gerais artist Ana Durães. Also awarded were athlete Aída dos Santos, vice-president of the Traders' Union Alexsandra de Carvalho, defender Arlanza Maria Rebello, neurobiologist Débora Foguel, social entrepreneur Eduarda LaRocque, historical feminist Leila Linhares and community leader Tia Gaúcha.
Check out the thank you speech by the co-founder of the ELAS Fund, sociologist, PhD in Communication and Culture and feminist activist:
I am very grateful to have been nominated for this award Nise da Silveira, a psychoanalyst deeply compassionate with human suffering, creative within her field and respectful of the rights of others, she is part of the many Brazilian women I deeply admire. Some have gone down in history, others tell their stories to us in different media.
Among them are those I know personally and through their testimonies that are on the ELAS Fund website and facebook. These women and feminists of different ages and generations, black, white, indigenous, lesbian, heterosexual, bisexual, from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and the feminist spring, as well as the team, co-founders, advisors, partners, collaborators and funders have built and build the ELAS Fund and social justice philanthropy on a daily basis. This award belongs to all of them! But I would like to dedicate it especially to my partner, Madalena Guilhon, a tireless feminist, always fair, thoughtful, honest and committed to democracy in Brazil.
For the ELAS Fund, Giving for change is our way of changing the world and contributing a little to building happiness for all beings.
Investing socially and building social justice philanthropy for women and girls goes beyond contributing to equity between men and women. For us, it also means investing in a healthy country development, where the human and socio-environmental rights of all beings and diversity are respected.
Strengthening women's rights generates immeasurable positive outcomes for all, where everyone wins, as stated in the McKinsey Institute report and Oak Foundation research on women's empowerment and social responsibility.
Our society is enriched more through different points of view, using dialogue as a tool not to dichotomize, acting positively, to make Brazil grow socio-environmentally, advance in rights and respect for ethnic-racial, sexual, generational and political diversity.
No Fundo ELAS, acreditamos no trabalho colaborativo interna e externamente, no diálogo com os diferentes atores, na inovação colaborativa que hoje chamam de coworking, cocriação e que as feministas dos anos 1970 &
