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All projects are monitored. The entrepreneurship training projects in Kenya and Uganda are also supervised by Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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Fundraising costs are no more than 10%. In other words, for every €10 donated, at least €9 goes to aid work, while €1 covers fundraising costs. Project administration costs are also minimal.

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Aid is directed to people in vulnerable situations, regardless of their background, religion, or political beliefs.

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Poverty and financial hardship are a reality for an increasing number of people in Finland today.

ADRA Finland and its predecessor organization ADA have been helping people with limited means in Finland since the 1960s. Today, together with our regional partners, we organize food distributions, porridge breakfasts, soup kitchens, shared meals, and distributions of free clothing and home textiles in different parts of the country.

We also place special emphasis on preventing the social exclusion of young people by supporting camp activities for young people from low-income families and by guiding them toward social support services.

With your support, we can ease the everyday lives of low-income families and serve as part of their support network. Your donation can also provide direct financial assistance to people facing economic difficulties. Through our work, more than 50,000 people in Finland receive help each year.

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Aid Work in Finland

The Empower Her project — Empowering Girls and Women through Social and Economic Development — works to promote the rights and personal integrity of women and girls by improving their opportunities for self-reliant and independent livelihoods. The key tools of the project are the formation of women’s and girls’ groups, or clubs, entrepreneurship training provided within these groups, and the social empowerment of participants through the sharing of knowledge and skills, as well as through building their own networks.

In the Migori region of Kenya, women and girls face challenges such as child and teenage pregnancies, child and teenage marriages, school dropout, and female genital mutilation.

Economic and social empowerment, supporting women and girls in advocating for their rights, providing tools for starting their own businesses, training men, boys, and village chiefs on the rights of women and girls, and strengthening networks are central methods of the project.

The need for the project emerged during the ongoing Permaculture project for school-aged children and their parents. In follow-up meetings for the Permaculture project, local government officials highlighted the need to increase the number of women and girls participating in entrepreneurship training. The current Permaculture project has more than 1,000 members, many of whom are interested in joining training activities focused on establishing small businesses. These trainings build on the skills learned in the Permaculture project and take them further toward practical entrepreneurship.

The central idea of the project is that women’s economic independence, together with the social empowerment created through networks, is one of the most effective ways to improve the position of women and girls and protect them from various forms of abuse, including culturally accepted harmful practices. Forming and organizing groups, as well as connecting them into wider networks, creates structure, continuity, and a strong foundation for the work. The network supports its members and also encourages others to join.

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EmpowerHer

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The funds raised for this project are used to support girls who have dropped out of school and single mothers in Agago, Northern Uganda.
Through the project, women receive training in practical skills such as sewing, cooking, baking, agricultural work, and the basics of entrepreneurship and business.

In addition, the girls and women need therapeutic support, as well as knowledge and skills related to life management, personal health, sexuality, hygiene, nutrition, saving, and money management.

Your support enables these girls and women living in poverty to gain a profession, learn new skills, and earn a livelihood. The support is used to organize trainings, purchase the materials needed for the trainings, and maintain the training center.

ADRA Uganda serves as the project partner responsible for the practical implementation of the project and the organization of the trainings.

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Young Mothers

Featured Donation Cause 3

## Aid for Disaster Victims

Funds are collected through the disaster relief fund of the Sympatia Ingathering to help victims of disasters. Each year, at least 5% of the total proceeds of the Sympatia Ingathering are allocated to the disaster relief fund.

With your donation, we can immediately send funds to crisis areas when disasters occur. The delivery of aid and the relief work for victims are coordinated and monitored by the worldwide ADRA network through its offices closest to the disaster area.

In 2018, the global ADRA network helped victims of a total of 225 disasters around the world. In 2020, ADRA Finland’s disaster relief fund supported victims of the Beirut explosion and the cyclone in Fiji. In 2021, the fund supported homeless people in Serbia and households in the Kabul region of Afghanistan. In 2022, it supported victims of the war in Ukraine — in Ukraine, Romania, Poland, and Finland — as well as work in Migori County, Kenya, to protect young girls from female genital mutilation.

During 2023, humanitarian aid was delivered to Ukraine, Somalia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Syria.

Help people in crisis areas with your generous support. Thank you warmly!

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Disaster Relief

Featured Donation Cause 4

Improving the living conditions of people with disabilities in a comprehensive way and supporting their empowerment can significantly change the lives and future opportunities of children and young people with disabilities in the Kendu and Homa Bay areas of western Kenya.

Corrective surgeries carried out with the support of ADRA Finland’s work play a significant role. In the Surgical Safaris project, volunteer top surgeons from Finland use their expertise to help Kenyan children and young people with disabilities.

Your support makes these surgeries possible. It is used to cover the surgery and treatment fees of the local hospital, as well as the costs of aftercare.

More than 1,300 children with disabilities have already received help through these surgeries. Many of the children who have undergone surgery have been able to return to school. They are no longer bullied and no longer suffer from the pain caused by their disability.

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Surgical Safaris

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# Fundraising account: FI89 8000 1500 5542 42
**Recipient name:** ADRA Finland Foundation sr

Fundraising permit of the ADRA Finland Foundation: RA/2022/38, issued by the National Police Board on 14 January 2022.

Ingathering Coordinator: Merja Heikkilä
**044 548 9500**
**merja.heikkila@adra.fi**

Sympatia Ingathering, Ketarantie 4 E, 33680 Tampere

(EN) Sympatia etusivu

Sympatia on ADRA Finlandin keräys, jolla autetaan Suomessa vaikeassa tilanteessa eläviä ihmisiä ruoka-avun, taloudellisen tuen ja muun käytännön avun kautta. Lahjoita helposti verkossa ja ole mukana tuomassa toivoa ja arjen helpotusta.

Sympatia-keräys | ADRA Finland

Sympatia etusivu

Sympati är ADRA Finlands insamling som hjälper människor i svåra livssituationer i Finland genom mathjälp, ekonomiskt stöd och annan praktisk hjälp. Donera enkelt på nätet och var med och ge hopp och lättnad i vardagen.

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