# Prizm Project

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**PRIZM project** is a human rights education programme for young women. Four foundational pillars are used in teaching human rights to engaged young women: [civic engagement](/source/Civic_engagement), [social justice](/source/Social_justice), [inner peace](/source/Inner_peace), and [critical thinking](/source/Critical_thinking). PRIZM runs Human Rights Retreats to give young women the necessary tools to become active in their communities to create positive social change. It also provides a toolkit for field organizers to use in running a retreat in their own area. The project is associated with the Global Literacy Project,[1] and has worked with schools in the United States to collect books and other literacy materials to send to third-world schools.[2]

## Activities

The Prizm Project organisation is active in [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) and [Kenya](/source/Kenya), as well as holding an annual retreat on the grounds of [Douglass College](/source/Douglass_College) at [Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University).[3] The organisation celebrated its launch with a retreat attended by over a hundred young women in Kenya.[4] Other education programmes are in place in [Southeast Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia) and in [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria).[5]

## References

1. [Global Literacy Project](http://glpinc.org/), retrieved April 15, 2007 [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20191115021945/http://www.glpinc.org/) November 15, 2019 at the Wayback Machine

1. [Students collecting for S. Africa school](http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070331/NEWS01/703310330/1006/NEWS06)[dead link], Celanie Polanick, *Courier News Online*

1. ["Students 'retreat' for human rights"](http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2007/04/02/University/Students.retreat.For.Human.Rights-2816592.shtml). *The Daily Targum*. April 2, 2007. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225606/http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/storage/paper168/news/2007/04/02/University/Students.retreat.For.Human.Rights-2816592.shtml) September 27, 2007 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["American Fellows Action Plans"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070929011713/http://www.humanityinaction.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=500). Humanity In Action. Archived from [the original](http://www.humanityinaction.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=500) on September 29, 2007. Retrieved April 15, 2007.

1. ["Prizm Project FAQ, point #6"](http://www.prizmproject.org/FAQ.htm). Prizm. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070216200233/http://www.prizmproject.org/FAQ.htm) February 16, 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 15, 2007. – via The Wayback Machine.

## External links

- [Prizm Project home page](https://web.archive.org/web/20070705134835/http://www.prizmproject.org/index.htm)

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