Platform To Connect Refugee Women And Girls At Heart Of Unique Crowdfunder
Press Release – NEW YORK — Wednesday 31 May, 2017: As the refugees crisis grows and borders close, a unique crowdfunding campaign aims to build an open platform for the voices and experiences of refugee and migrant girls and women around the world, inspiring compassion, connection and providing one solution to this humanitarian emergency.
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Non-profit Footage Foundation launched the #OpenBordersSharedHumanity campaign, which uses the science of storytelling, connection, and economic empowerment to “raise voices and elevates lives” through its Her{Connect}Her program.
Footage Foundation’s Executive Director, Dr Kristen Ali Eglinton, explained that since the refugee crisis exploded, Footage Foundation has spent considerable time researching and listening to the experiences of displaced girls and women across the world.
“Due to the unique needs of displaced girls and women, and their high risk of experiencing violence and isolation, there is great urgency for gender-specific programming — the Her{connect}Her program is one such program,” she said.
If successful, the fundraising campaign would allow Footage to build an online digital network of isolated girls and women and offer a safe space for global understanding and compassion. Secondly, the campaign would fund a transformative, evidence-based program through which girls and women communicate their experiences with the goal of together, understanding their strengths, needs, hopes, and perspectives.
Footage’s 2016 fundraising campaign allowed the program to be implemented in Sweden, the U.K., and France. It is already making a measurable impact. If the 2017 campaign can successfully reach its $30,000 goal, the digital platform can be designed and built and the program can be expanded to Greece, the United States and France this summer, reaching up to 30 girls and women. The ultimate goal is to reach 120 young women migrants and refugees across the USA, Europe, and the Middle East by Summer 2018.
“By sharing their experiences and assessing their needs, girls and women foster agency and self-determination, elevating their roles as leaders in their lives and communities,” Dr Eglinton said. “What they share provides the public, NGOs, and policy makers insights for effective responses to refugee crises and immigration issues.”
For more information, visit the crowdfunder page; visit the Her{Connect}Her program website.
The crowdfunder will run until the end of June.
About Footage Foundation: Footage designs impactful, sustainable programs that use local technology and expressive multimedia tools to bring the underrepresented voices and experiences of young people, particularly young women, into conversations on the world’s most challenging issues.
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