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The Kolo: Women's Cross Cultural Collaboration (The Kolo: WCCC) focuses on intersecting women's collaboration, representation and advocacy for gender justice to halt gender violence internationally and nationally. The Kolo: WCCC promotes and provides women's trauma counseling, treatment with a feminist and archetypal perspective coupled with cross cultural practices that enable women in war torn countries, such as Bosnia, the Balkans and Sri Lanka to become self-sustainable in their communities. The Kolo: WCCC has two primary purposes- meaningful works:

• Women focused Trauma Counseling & Instruction to become a lay therapist/kolo practioner in their communities to treat trauma. The Kolo: WCCC provides in-depth psychological trauma treatment, domestic violence education, identification of and treatment for post-traumatic stress, including treatment for rape and torture victims.
• Cross-Cultural Gender Practices that include female and feminine perspective. The Kolo: WCCC facilitates collaboration between cross-cultural women's communities for development and implementation of gender equality practices and training in new technologies, women's rights, promoting women's solidarity and economic change. Advocacy and grassroots efforts with native local population, and extending to individual and private donors and interfacing with international humanitarian organizations.

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Bringing healing to Novi Travnik

Every year, trauma expert Danica Anderson visits the tiny European nation of Bosnia as part of her ongoing work healing women traumatized by war. Fighting transformed the quaint town of Novi Travnik into a human shooting gallery, with snipers from opposing sides nesting in the mountain ranges on either side of town. Today, more than a decade after the conflict, the town languishes as its citizens struggle to recover both economically and emotionally. A growing number of women in town practice Anderson's trauma healing therapies in intimate community circles known as kolos.

Photographs by Eugene Ahn and Joanne Kim - http://www.kolocollaboration.org./

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