What we do
We work with refugee women to overcome trauma, fight for their rights,
and to transform their lives and the world around them.
We do this through therapeutic arts projects, campaigning, and economic empowerment.
Many of our projects cross-cut these areas of work - for example craft therapy that also brings in an income.
Lebanon projects
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Oshana
Craft therapy, community, and financial independence for refugee women, through creation and sale of embroidery and crochet.
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The Dream Project
Training, education and support for refugee women to fulfil the career dreams they have been denied due to war and gender inequality.
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Theatre Therapy Workshops
Working in collaboration with NGO Intisar to run weekly theatre therapy workshops for Syrian and Palestinian refugee women living in Beirut’s camps.
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Emergency Response
Our community of Syrian and Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon have been strongly affected by the regional violence that has re-erupted in the Middle East since October 7th. Read about our emergency support here.
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Recyling, Rags and Rights
Increasing gender equality and reducing poverty among marginalised Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese women, while also contributing to an awareness of the importance of recycling and the development of the circular economy.
UK projects
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'I Am Lysistrata'
Working with women seeking sanctuary in London to reimagine ancient Greek comedy ‘Lysistrata’ about women coming together to end a war.
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Domestic Duster Workshops
Craftivist workshops for refugee and asylum-seeking women, in collaboration with Vanessa Marr’s ‘Domestic Dusters’ project.
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Film For Freedom UK
With the support of the Bertha Foundation we are bringing ‘Film For Freedom’ to London, to celebrate the the power of art and activism to empower refugee women through the medium of film-making.
Past projects
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Stand Up Comedy Workshops
A series of eight stand-up comedy workshops in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts’ programme ‘No Direction Home’.
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Film for Freedom- Lebanon
Working with refugee women in Lebanon to produce short films, telling their own stories in their own way.
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Antigone of Syria
Sophocles’ tragedy of one woman’s rebellion against state and patriarchy, retold by refugee women in Lebanon.
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Creative Writing
Workshops with refugee women in Lebanon, and internally displaced women inside Syria.
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Sharaf
Workshops and performance combatting ‘honour’ killing with a community inside Syria.