More Than A Survivor
CONCEPT
Awareness campaigns about gender violence often focus on its effects and impact on victims. Although a very important part of awareness building, these campaigns are not particularly forward-looking or hopeful. They do not communicate that it is possible to rebuild after such experiences. A much more empowering approach is to focus on what survivors are able to become and achieve despite what they have endured when they get the right support.
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Helping survivors of sexual violence rebuild their lives requires multiple layers of support. An important part of the rebuilding process, which is especially complicated for women with foreign backgrounds in Sweden, is finding employment.
Employment is a key element of building a fulfilling and independent life and an area that shelters struggle with providing due to the complicated nature of finding employment in a system that is discriminatory.
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How can Somaya Center inspire prominent business women in Stockholm to support survivors’ rebuilding process by contributing with their time, money and/or network?
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There are four things in particular that survivors with foreign backgrounds need to successfully build a life in Sweden:
Knowledge
Role Models
Sense of Worth
Network
For those that have not grown up in the country, one of the greatest challenges is building a network that can serve as a bridge to relevant opportunities. Prominent business women have these networks and are not aware of the difference they can make by connecting survivors to opportunities.
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Help survivors build the lives they want and become who they were meant to be by connecting them to relevant opportunities through the networks of prominent business women in Sweden.
How? Communication campaign that speaks to the resiliency and fighting spirit of business women by showing the resiliency and fighting spirit of survivors themselves and what they can achieve with the right support.
