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Our main projects and activities consists of: 

4 coordinators that work with Community based development acording to the area with projects like: Residential cultivation, women's empowerment, integration, young people giving tech and phone support to elderly, safety tours

Development and establishment of youth council where we work with democracy issues and development of the youth policy in the city.

HBTQ group for youth that works with tolerans and inclusion

Public health issues concerning dug and alchol prevention, mental health issues, integration, unvoluntary solitude and exclusion, parents support and human rights.

Eurodesk / International work- We work with EVS because we can offer informal and non-formal learning opportunities for the volunteers, which often lead to new or better jobs, along with personal and social development. We also believe that hosting volunteers in our organisation is a great enrichment to our activities on many levels. When volunteers are hosted in the youth centers we see that the youngsters grow in an intercultural aspect in the interaction with the volunteers. 

Among the activities of the organisation are:
- planning, organising and managing music, humanitarian and volunteer events
- planning, organising and managing art shows, movie nights, public hearings and similar events
- education of youth through creative workshops, study circles and online events
- cooperation with similar organisations in Europe and worldwide.

When it comes to international cooperation we have implemented many international youth exchanges and training courses for youth through the erasmus+ programme in Sweden, Italy, Greece, Ukraine and North Macedonia, we are also leading a strategic partnership project through the programme (DOCC - Debate on, Change Community) We have through the years sent over 400 Swedish youngsters to participate in different international events
Examples of activities that we organize:
1. We organise activities for newcomers to help with their integration process in Sweden. We organise panels where we invite local politicians for a panel where young people mostly newcomers have questions about Swedish politics, work and democracy. During covid 19, we implemented some online activities and we invited experts in different subjects such as mental health. We also use this activity to promote our activities, after always getting new applications from young people who want to join us.
2. We have a football team in Södertälje. The team includes children from ages 9 – 13 years old and most of the members are newcomers, especially from Syria. During Covid, we had to pause this activity but we restarted the activity during this summer
3. We have a mobility team that goes out to the streets on weekends, speaks to the youth face to face, and invites them to take part in our activities. (Nattvandring) We also use this strategy to recruit youth by reaching out to them in the neighbourhoods, .
4. We cooperate with ABF Botkyrka Salem, we use their facilities to organise some of our activities.
5. We have a corporation with a local NGO called Tillsammans är vi starka where we implement study circles about different issues, Music, driving theory courses, and Swedish for newcomers.
6. We have just completed seed funding projects through the Swedish institution ”SI" where we implemented a project in Palestine called LARP TO LEAD. The project's main aim is to strengthen democracy, freedom of expression and human rights and to exchange experiences with the Palestinian partner.
7. During 2015 and in cooperation with ”Refugees welcome” our members helped in welcoming the refugees and provided them with food and clothes.
8. Starting from June 2023. We will start to implement a long-term project called speak. SPEAK aims to foster social inclusion through digital methods where locals and newcomers can start language groups. This first help to newcomers to learn Swedish but also helps in their integration process, on the other hand, the project help to change stereotypes about newcomers,
9. We are even partners in a project called YES! Youth for European Solidarity! which Europe funds for citizens programme. YES!

Our main projects is within non-formal education and Erasmus+ projects mainly focused on youths around the world. We are currently planning several projects to implement and share more information about gender equality.

Being a meeting place for artists, running an art gallery for its members – Galleri 1 (with approximately 16 exhibitions/ year) and “Annexet” for guest artist from other countries and other parts of Sweden as well as members. With public events as seminars, workshops and debates. The association also runs a workshop/studio with a fully equipped graphic studio. For artists exchanges there are possibilities for accommodations for two persons.
Locally oriented art projects are for instance collaboration with the Linné garden and with the University of Uppsala, the ARTEMIS project. There is an annual art exchange program with Visby, Gotland, Sweden and Wismar in Germany. Members and groups of members are or have recently been involved in international exchange projects. There has been collaboration with artists from Japan, China, Latin America and Russia creating different art projects.

The main activity within the organisation is our practical civil courage training, which we call a Dojo. By using a roleplay method we stage a situation where we see injustice or oppression of any kind. By doing this we create the opportunity to concrete and practical try out different techniques in order to make the situation more democratic or just.
Each training would focus on a different themes, such as racism, sexism or maybe different kinds of suppression techniques(härskartekniker). All of these oppression do exist in differents places, it could be on the street but also around the family dinner. We believe that civil courage training is something everyone could and also should take part in and therefor that is our main activity within the organisation.

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Vox Pacis works with:

- Peace and multicultural concerts - Youth Musical - Drama - Concert shows - Workshops - Exhibitions - Guest shows - Networking - Research.

Vox Pacis has so far created hundreds of theatrical concerts with artists from fifteen different cultures, representing all world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism – with elements of Same jojk, Tibetan throat song, Sufi desert blues, Roma freedom singing and Chines opera singing and folksongs.

Our biggest project  at this time is writing a method manual on how to work with unaccompanied refugee children, for the the swedish community life/third sector activities.
We are collecting the experiences of sports clubs as well as the boy/girlscouts and any other activity that has made experiences in working with unaccomapnied refugee children. The main focus is to empower the very well extended swedish network of after-school-activities. We firmly belives that this is one of the key solutions to the current situation in our society. The target group is very resilliant but also sensitive. To have engaged adults in a youths life can make all the difference. It can save the individual from exclusion of society and in some cases tragic outcomes and also save society the money every child in exclusion is costing.
The first step contains gathering of experiences and writing them down into the method manual. We have both depth and width in the manual. Some of the sports team coaches work with unaccompanied refugee children professionally and have deep knowledge in the matter. And we have found several societies and sports teams that have worked successfully with this gruop for several years.
The second step will be spreading the method manual and educating the educators (SISU, who is the organisation in charge of educating the swedish community life).