Our programs are developed and customized to provide leadership skills and psychosocial support to refugee groups anywhere in the world. Since we started, we have:
Learn about our workshop participant’s stories. Know about their journeys searching for a better livelihood in their own voice.
We work from the Middle East to Sub-Saharan Africa. We impact people across borders, nationalities and ethnicities.
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The Azadi Project’s work with refugee and marginalized women has been covered by media outlets internationally. You can read about it here.
Azadi means FREEDOM in Hindi, Farsi, and Urdu. And at The Azadi Project, this forms the ethos of everything we do.
Our work with refugees centers primarily around women and young children — those most affected by conflict of any kind. Apart from being susceptible to gender-based violence and trafficking, the unseen mental trauma due to forced displacement and separation from loved ones is a global crisis in the making. This is where we try to make a difference.
Creates strong women leaders and role models
Provides a safe space for participants to offer and seek comfort
Focuses in holistic development through psychosocial support sessions
Sessions are led by trained facilitators
Uses creative tools such as storytelling and art therapy
Participants bond over shared stories
Participants control the narrative, and using their own voice and agency
Fosters a sense of community
Provides training of trainers
It’s important that you as the people who are affected, as the actual refugees , are empowered yourself. I really welcome this initiative started by The Azadi Project .
United Nations Chief Spokesperson
The Azadi Project’s mission to create a world where refugee and migrant women are empowered is so very close to my heart.
(COO) of the social networking company Meta
When I met with women refugees from Ukraine, they were traumatized by the war and anxious for themselves, their children and about the future.
Activist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
We love working with a global community of people and organizations. Here’s what some of them have said about us:
“The time I spent with everyone at the session was a very vulnerable moment for me. I reflected on all of that after the session.”
On Mental Health Day, Azadi is making sure that mental health support for refugee and asylum seekers is visible through an expert-led webinar and a special fundraiser.
Biba is a single mother of five children and lives in the Tillabery region in Niger. In the absence of jobs and with no possibility to go to school in Niger, she followed her husband to Libya in order to find work. Biba’s dream of a better life in Libya was overshadowed by experiences of racism in everyday life. After 9 years she was forced to return to Niger as the war broke out. Back in her home country, she wants to help build a better future for the next generation “All I am asking for is an equal and fair chance for everyone.”