Project: Mutual Aid and Faith-Based Organizations: A Public History Project

This project focuses on the histories of mutual aid within faith institutions and how these histories have led religious institutions to be able to assist during this crucial moment of increasing despair and hardship due to the pandemic. The needs for housing, food, education, health resources have been there before the pandemic and will be after. What can we learn from these structures of care that are already in place and implement them into our daily lives? In addition to providing historical context, this project explores various definitions of mutual aid and looks to document participants’ own relationship to mutual aid and religion.

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