Why Project Nima is important

Founder and Secretary General Christina Wenngren has developed a concept that stands out from methods of traditional aid organisations.

The core is mutual aid activity. In which Project Nima's young Ambassadors play the most important role, as they further educate other children and young people.

We empower young people all over the world to influence their future. Together, we are building sustainable change in communities where young people exchange experiences and knowledge with each other. The young people in Project Nima regularly participate in academic training and workshops from the project's founder Christina Wenngren together with external experts.

Focus is on topics such as child trafficking, corruption, international politics, international knowledge, post-traumatic stress, social media stress management, human rights and self-esteem.

To create this sustainable change, it requires empathy for other people, and the realization that we can learn from each other - even need each other.

The Ambassadors contribute with their own experiences from their unique perspectives and make a comprehensive analysis. In this way, they create an unbeatable educational material that can be used to further educate children and adults in Ghana and Sweden.

The project has received a lot of attention from schools in some of Stockholm's vulnerable areas. These schools have, as we have seen, recognised that Project Nima's methods are powerful tools for creating integration between different groups in society. The project creates cohesion by helping others.

Through interaction via chat and video calls in social media we create a platform where children all over the world can educate each other - with their own unique knowledge and experience. All that is needed is an Internet connection. Project Nima wants to spread a positive curiosity about the world and at the same time increase equality and counteract hostility.

So, what happens when a help goes both ways?

Change - for real.

MUNIRU - IF IT SHOULD BE SUSTAINABLE, THERE MUST BE A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE BY MEN

We learn how to "educate a girl but educate a whole family". But then miss a step. It is at least as important to educate boys as to change attitudes in men.

Men need to change the way they look at women and their responsibilities in the family.

In Project Nima, we learn about the power of equality.

Today, 17-year-old Muniru Abubakar is a Project Nima Ambassador.