A round-up of our events in Helsinki
BEING A FRIEND EVENT LAW EVENINGS
Our Neighbourhood Mothers from
Helsinki participated in the Being a
Friend event (kaaveriksi, in Finnish)
organized by the Finnish Refugee
Council on 11th October. The purpose
of the event was to allow immigrant and
Finnish women to get to know each
other and become friends, and sure
enough, our Neighbourhood Mothers
made Finnish friends and chatted the
evening away. In collaboration with Monika Naiset ry and a
couple of volunteer pro bono lawyers,
Nicehearts has been regularly organizing
‘Law Evenings’. Topics of interest to
Neighbourhood Mothers such as children’s
rights, violence and so on, are discussed from
a legal perspective. These informative
evenings have helped our Neighbourhood
Mothers get to know more about their legal
rights in Finland. Every meeting is concluded
with a question-and-answer session.
INTEGRATION INFO EVENT
The Integration Info Event, an annual
event, organized by Moniheli ry. was
held on 27th October. The event was
held in collaboration with Nicehearts
and other organizations that are
involved in integration programs. We
spoke about our Neighbourhood
Mothers’ project to partners,
shareholders and those interested in
learning more about what we do. We
also shared how our project has helped
and continues to help the integration
process of immigrants in Finland.
GROUP MEETINGS FOR KURDI-
SPEAKING SYRIAN WOMEN
Our Neighbourhood Mother, Khallata
Demir, started a weekly group
discussion for Kurdi-speaking Syrian
women. The women get together and
discuss a wide range of topics such as
the integration process, family, mental
health and so on.
INFO-SESSION ON JOB-SEEKING FOR 40-
50 YEAR-OLD WOMEN
A lot of recruiting events and peer mentoring
sessions are organized by many
organizations, but, the target group, mostly
seems to be job seekers who are 20-40 year
olds. Our Neighbourhood Mothers who are in
the 40-50 age group were concerned about
not being able to benefit from many of the
events and mentoring sessions. To address
this problem, Nicehearts ry organized an info-
session in collaboration with Monik ry. We
invited a couple of experts from
Diakonissalaitos to share some practical job-
hunting tips and provide guidance to our
Neighbourhood Mothers who were in the 40-
50 age group.