We unite
our voices

VOICE
UP

Children's
Rights

SUMMARY

With a camera in hand, we give voice to teenagers so that they can express their views and experiences around human rights.

Young Greeks and refugees from the center of Athens participate in a series of participatory video workshops and create a documentary. They make their issues visible and offer opportunities for dialogue.

They join their voices to have their rights heard, both in Greece and beyond!

VOICE UP

Our goal is to promote human rights, inclusive art, intercultural dialogue, and social inclusion.

Teenagers learn about child rights, storytelling, and video creation. They express themselves, defend their rights, and their voices resonate in our hearts!

HUMAN RIGHTS

Greek and refugee teenagers from the center of Athens gain access to culture, promote intercultural dialogue, and defend human rights.

Starting with an experiential human rights education workshop for young people, the young participants place themselves and their respective experiences on a collective advocacy map of their rights.

ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ

Regardless of their origin, our participants are actively involved in the creative process of producing a short documentary thanks to a series of participatory video workshops. They are able to develop critical and analytical thinking skills, as well as learn video production techniques regarding the writing, shooting, and editing of their film, all focused on children’s rights.

ΣΥΓΚΛΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ

Young people choose to share their personal experiences, including shocking stories and testimonies of violations of children's rights. Now they narrate themselves with courage and a personal tone. They claim rights on behalf of other young people who cannot speak.

ΚΑΜΠΑΝΙΑ ΕΥΑΙΣΘΗΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ

Adolescents create, empower, sensitize, express, and claim.

They represent the new multicultural generation that promotes justice and love, hopes, and shows the way to others through creativity, arts, and culture.

With this campaign, we invite you to join an intercultural dialogue that inspires new possibilities based on solidarity and justice.

VIDEO & IMPRESSIONS

HOW IT WAS MADE

Get to know the production stages of the project with its new creators.

Εργαστήρια

HARMONIC COEXISTENCE AND FAIR TREATMENT

THROUGH THE CREATION OF ART THEY CREATE

A SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO

TELL THEIR STORIES

Experiential participatory video workshops with a therapeutic and ethnopsychological approach through art, offering Greek and refugee adolescents safe conditions to share their experiences and views on human rights.

We create a strong sense of acceptance, inclusion, mutual respect, and self-esteem, as the team members are strengthened separately and collectively. Participatory and inclusive projects allow them to gain access to the mysteries of art and documentaries.

Δημιουργική ιδέα

CREATIVE FLOW

DIFFERENT STORIES

Aiming to promote the social inclusion and empowerment of vulnerable groups in the creative and productive process, the young creators collaborated exceptionally well and developed unique friendships.

The personal stories and opinions that emerged, along with a feeling of compassion and solidarity, complemented each other in an organic and natural way. The adolescents chose to convey truly strong messages and stories to sensitize both Greek and European citizens, as well as fellow citizens from their countries.

Παραγωγή

FREEDOM OF CHOICE

CREATIVE PRODUCTION

Participatory video (PV) acts as a "cleansing" in an art therapy process, as it enables the participant to make choices and take initiatives that are often not allowed at home, at school, or in society.

We give adolescents the opportunity to express themselves in front of the camera, to choose subjects, frames, shots, and especially the content. With each choice of frame, they acquire the power to express and be heard, and to create and to emerge from the margins of the society where they might be. It thus allows vulnerable participants to regain some of their dignity and freedom.

Ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα

PARTICIPATORY VIDEO

A STRONG TOOL FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION

With a focus on human rights, adolescents tell their stories or their views and highlight their real concerns. They are defending their rights in the name of the children of the world.

We achieved community capacity building by strengthening the team. The team has increased its collective self-esteem and awareness, and they will continue to promote group initiatives aimed at social change.

ΑΧΜΕΤ

14 ετών Συρία - Κούρδος

ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ

16 ετών Κονγκό

ΜΑΙΡΗ ΠΡΑΣΙΝΟΥ

18 ετών Ελλάδα

ΡΟΥΘ

15 ετών Κονγκό

ΕΛΙΑΝΝΑ ΚΑΜΠΟΥΡΗ

14 ετών Ελλάδα

Marlon Leend

head photographer

ΕΛΙΑΝΝΑ ΚΑΜΠΟΥΡΗ

14 ετών Ελλάδα

ΣΙΜΟΝ

17 ετών Κονγκό

ΓΙΑΣΙΝ

16 ετών Αφγανιστάν

ΝΤΑΟΥΝΤΑ

17 ετών, Σιέρα Λεόνε

ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΑ ΓΕΩΡΓΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ

18 ετών Ελλάδα

ΠΑΡΒΑΝΕ

16 ετών Αφγανιστάν

ΜΟΧΑΜΕΤ

12 ετών Συρία - Κούρδος

ΛΟΥΚ

17 ετών Κονγκό

ΜΠΑΝΓΚΟΥΡΑ

17 ετών Σιέρρα Λεόνε

ΕΡΓΚΙΤ

14 ετών Ελλάδα/Αλβανία

ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΝΑΣΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ

14 ετών Ελλάδα

ΜΠΑΝΓΚΟΥΡΑ

17 ετών Σιέρρα Λεόνε

A DIVERSE TEAM

Directors, artists, ethno-psychologists and former UNESCO consultants, programmers and social innovators, with shared artistic and social sensitivities, makes up Diversity United. We have more than fifteen years of experience in approaching and empowering the most vulnerable groups through ethno-psychology, human rights, cinema and contemporary art, allowing our projects to go beyond our goals.