Lintulahdenkatu 10, 2 krs.
00500 Helsinki
Finland
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Kansainvälinen solidaarisuustyö (International Solidarity Work) has usually 10 board members and 0-1 paid staff members. Our budget is roughly between 4000e and 40 000e per year. The main source of funding is project funding, we apply to various project funding possibilities every year. The general funding comes from individual donations, the amount being approximately 2000e per year. We are an umbrella NGO with five NGO members, mainly organisations interested in development cooperation, solidarity economy and Western Sahara. We have no annual membership fee nor individual members. Our main actions are focused on development issues, development cooperation, solidarity economy and in the recent years Western Sahara. In the recent years we have had a development communication project focusing on global inequality, and within that organized discussions and seminars and published material. This project was funded by the foundation for consumer cooperative activity, KOT-säätiö. We have also had a development cooperation project in 2015-2016 in Western Sahara, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main partners are similar NGO's in Finland and our contacts in Western Sahara.
Our purpose is to: - Support peace and peaceful development, peoples right for self-governance and societal development. - Promote international solidarity, justice and equality. - Support the development and realisation of a more solidar international economic system. - Promote the knowlegde about solidarity work and global south . - Promote peace education.
Ongoing activities: - Participating in the discussion about the development movement in Finland. - Monitoring the situation of Western Sahara and organizing activities related to the issue. - Informing our individual donors about our activities four times per year. Annual activities: - Participating in the World Willage Festival in Helsinki. - Participating in the Pax Peace Festival in Helsinki. - Participating in the activiest during the Western Sahara Independence Day. - Participating in the General Assembly of Kepa NGO platform and Finnish Refugee Council. Recent or ongoing projects: - Building the Western Saharan Society of Tomorrow (2015-2016) - Global Inequality (2017-2018) - Hosting cultural activist from Western Sahara during the Finnish Social Forum (2018) - Solidarity Trip to Western Sahara (2018)
KV-Solid’s main themes are working for Western Sahara, promoting new forms of economy, and changing development politics. One of our upcoming project applications is in global education. We have doors open for co-operation in these fields, and also have an existing co-operation companions in Western Sahara.
We look forward to meeting and discussing with other members of the network. Our goal in the network is to have a mutual project with other member(s) of the network. We want to promote its’ goals and values in our way. We look for networking while getting new perspectives and possible support.