The Azadi Project
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Mission Statement
The Azadi Project’s mission is to enhance refugee women’s voice and agency by building their digital economy job skills. The Azadi Project trains refugee women and connects them with employment opportunities, empowering them to pursue livelihoods beyond borders and demonstrate their capacity to their host communities. Azadi helps refugee women in shelters and camps use their time more productively, reduce their vulnerability to smugglers and traffickers, and overcome intersectional bias. Azadi means freedom or liberation in Hindi, Urdu and Farsi. The Azadi Project is based on the principles of freedom, integration and dignity. By offering digital skills, we help female refugees to pursue educational or employment opportunities that contribute to their future livelihoods beyond the borders where they come from and where they currently reside.
About This Cause
By providing digital skills, we help refugees and migrants to pursue educational or employment opportunities that contribute to their future livelihoods beyond the borders where they come from and where they currently reside.Through multimedia skills and public speaking training, Azadi helps refugees and displaced groups to amplify their voices in a meaningful way, taking ownership of their own narratives and demonstrating their capacities to host communities. With a focus on women participants inclusive of male attendees and host community members, the Azadi Project promotes an inclusive form of training, with in depth discussions on gender equality.In its objective, the Azadi Project addresses the issues of gender equality, quality education, refugee rights, freedom of speech and information, independent media and sustainable livelihoods. The Azadi Project is a social enterprise born out of the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Alumni Network. In the past, Azadi has trained refugee women from Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Syria, Congo, Djibouti in refugee camps in Niger and Greece. In 2020, Azadi held a digital skills resilience-building workshop with a focus on mental health in the Moria Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, partnering with IRC and UNHCR Greece. In cooperation with a local coding school, we have also started a digital integration programme aimed to train refugee women in computer skills and facilitating their integration into the local labour market in Athens, Greece.