Projects Archive - Active Citizens Fund

Do the human right thing – Raising our Voice for Refugee Rights

Project Promoter: Greek Council for Refugees (GCR)

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 12 months

The rights to housing, health and employment are three basic aspects of a decent life. The project aims at systematically bringing to the fore the violations of the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers, in particular in respect to these three fundamental rights, and promoting targeted solutions through...

TRACE – TRansforming Access to health CarE

Project Promoter: Association of Research and Education in Clinical Skills (ARECS)

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 14 months

Project aims to address the inadequate provision of health services to disabled persons by providing appropriate tools to students and health professionals. Despite the great progress made in the provision of health services to disabled persons, significant obstacles do remain. These include communication gaps, lack of training for health...

Summer camp: Socialization and independent living for people with disabilities

Project Promoter: Scientific Association of Adapted Activities Victor Artant – Niki

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 4 months

The project will operate on two pillars: The first is the need for children to socialize and integrate into society. Throughout the program, People with Disabilities interact with each other and with their therapists and with the rest of society, as external programs are implemented that aim precisely to...

Womathon

Project Promoter: Storymentor – Stories that Change the World

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 6 months

Gender equality in the workplace is a frequent issue. Scholarship and research are areas where discrimination against women is particularly prominent. Although women have increased opportunities to study and work in research and academia, obstacles in their professional development remain. Womathon aims at shedding light on this phenomenon, known...

Teachers Training Webinars on Media Literacy and Rights of the Child

Project Promoter: Athens International Children’s Film Festival

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 2 months

This initiative involves the training of 200 Primary & Secondary school educators from all over Greece on issues regarding the advocacy of the rights of children. For this purpose, we have selected two short films about the violation of articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child....

Festival of Queer Approaches

Project Promoter: Black Box

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 6 months

The project is about gender discrimination, racist (physical / verbal) violence and the lack of visibility that exists in the daily lives of LGBTQI+ people. There is a great lack of information on these issues and the visibility of these people is limited, both in the general population of...

Greek Marriage Equality Awareness Campaign

Project Promoter: Homo Evolution

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 12 months

The “Panhellenic Campaign for Equality in Marriage” implemented by Homo Evolution, aims to inform and raise awareness of the demand for equality in marriage in Greece, by combating stereotypes, stigma and homophobia. Greek law does not allow same-sex couples to enter into political marriage. So, very simple procedures, such...

Shedia@CITY: From isolation to social integration

Project Promoter: Diogenis NGO

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 24 months

The project “Shedia@CITY: From isolation to social integration” is an innovative project for the social activation of our fellow citizens who come from socially vulnerable groups such as homeless, urban poors, unemployed and generally social groups who are socially isolated. These are the project’s main target group. For them...

I’m trans. I know my rights

Project Promoter: Greek Transgender Support Association

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 24 months

Human rights are a basic precondition for human existence and are the cornerstone on which humanity builds a peaceful and prosperous future. The practical application of human rights presupposes, on the one hand, informed citizens who are ready to practice them and, on the other hand, well-trained legal and...

Humanitas – Process Drama και Processwork: Staging human rights of LGBTQI youth

Project Promoter: Athens Conservatoire

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 24 months

LGBTQI young people are considered to be severely vulnerable in their school and social environment, while going through the most fragile time of adolescence. They face serious challenges which often affect their health as well as the cohesion in school and in the community. The objective of the project...