Funding

Here is a summary of our funded projects

Sponsors	Funding period	Fund (currency)	Project Title	Aim and Objectives
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund	August 2024 – July 2025	100.000 $	TGNC Refugees in Greece: Community Building and Empowerment	Aim: Building the capacity of Emantes to enhance the lives of TGNC refugees and asylum seekers in Greece through case assessment and active participation of beneficiaries and their communities in decisions that affect their lives. Objectives: To increase access to supports and services needed by TGNC refugees and asylum seekers in Greece. To identify gaps in the Greek system regarding the support of TGNC refugees and asylum seekers, by enhancing the capacity of professionals and field workers to best support TGNC cases. To empower TGNC refugees and asylum seekers in Greece by support line, social services and legal services provision and community work.
Choose Love	December 2024 – July 2025	17.000 $	Complementary fund for food provision, psychological and support line services (TGNC Refugees in Greece: Community Building and Empowerment)	Aim: Building the capacity of Emantes to enhance the lives of TGNC asylum seekers in Greece through access to a support line, psychological services and a triple food provision program in addition to the Wellspring-funded case assessment and active participation of beneficiaries and their communities in decisions that affect their lives. Objectives: To increase access to systematic food provision to severely food insecure community individuals via emergency meal provision, weekly supermarket coupon administration and monthly “free pantry” access. To increase access to psychological services for LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees in Greece. To increase access to psychological services for LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees in Greece.
Lush	n/a	4.000 £	Interpretation and Food provision fund	Through the sales of Charity Pot Hand And Body Lotion, Lush distributes 100% percent of the purchase price (minus the taxes) as grants to small grassroots organisations working in the areas of human rights, animal protection and the environment. Lush funds projects around the world that address the root cause of issues and create long-term systemic change. In 2024-2025, Lush has funded 4 000 UK pounds to Emantes to help cover interpretation and food costs.
Erasmus+	September 2024 – August 2026	5.200 €	OUR STORY	Aim 1: Needs assessment for LGBTQIA+ youth in Europe in a participatory bottom-up way. Objectives: To explore the LGBTQIA+ rights, health, and wellbeing issues in Europe through a self-reflective practice using multimedia digital tools (journey mapping). To identify the European context-based rights, health, and well-being issues through a community-reflective practice (World Café) and use digital AI art to capture and summarise the context-based and widespread LGBTQIA+ issues. Aim 2: Co-creation LGBTQIA+ community sensitisation and LGBTQIA+ inclusive code of conduct. Objectives: To explore the significance of LGBTQIA+ terms in a European-wide social and political context through storytelling expressed in a range of arts, media, and cultural forms. To exchange organisational good practices to increase LGBTQIA+ inclusion and sense of belonging. To co-develop a shared, inclusive language to discuss key issues in gender and sexuality in a variety of ways and contexts. Aim 3: Empowerment of LGBTQIA+ youth to contribute to the health and wellbeing of their communities. Objectives: Exchange of organisational strategic planning tools for developing social or cultural change. Through organisational learning, each community to co-design and co-develop the change(s) they want to see in their contexts using a combination of strategic tools. Project activities and management to be carried out in a co-created informal digital inclusive and learning community space. Aim 4: Co-designed and Co-developed Multi-media dissemination of the manual for European LGBTQIA+ Equity. Objectives: To reflect and summarise the learnings of the activities at an individual, organisational, and project level. To co-create the manual of the practices necessary to set an inclusive and queer/gender-sensitive setting for an Erasmus activity and inform policy making. Including case-studies of each of the participatory and active citizenship activities implemented as well as describe and provide access to the digital spaces created. To disseminate practices and findings from case studies in a digital exhibition, using the outputs produced from O.1.1 - O.3.2. To create a podcast series inviting each partner country to engage with their relevant identified stakeholders (from O.3.1) to communicate their context-based findings and capture their stakeholders’ reflections.

International LGBTQIA+ Solidarity

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cooperative supporting LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees

Eleni Hadjigeorgiou

Manager

Eleni Hadjigeorgiou has been Emantes’ volunteer strategic planner, fundraiser, researcher, and nutrition consultant since 2020. In the role of manager, Eleni is responsible for the project’s communications, smooth operation of the services provision, design of participatory action community meetings, management of staff, trainees and their skill development, and reporting to funders.

Sophia Zachariadi

Support Line Manager

Sophia Zachariadi is the connecting link between potential beneficiaries and services, running the “Emantes' Support Line” since its beginning in 2018, offering first line psychosocial support, conducting face to face interviews, and creating documentation intakes with beneficiaries along the legal team to efficiently identify and record individual, subgroup and community needs.

Lia Zachariadi

Project Coordinator

Lia Zachariadi oversees volunteers’ and services coordination, designing interventions/projects and services tailored to the needs of subgroups of users, and coordinating collaborative initiatives with organisations and individuals inside and outside refugee community, helping to achieve the goals of Emantes. Lia also doubles in Emantes as a community facilitator, since 2018.

Yuli

Role: Organizer

Yuli organizes events and campaigns to support LGBTQIA+ solidarity. They enjoy motorbiking and art.

Ermis

Role: Coordinator

Ermis coordinates events and programs for LGBTQIA+ youth. He enjoys cycling and photography.

Nana

Role: Educator

Nana educates communities on LGBTQIA+ rights and equality. She enjoys playing chess and baking.

Anicet

Role: Activist

Anicet works passionately to promote inclusivity and equity within the LGBTQIA+ community. They enjoy reading and traveling.

Adrian

Role: Volunteer

Adrian is a dedicated volunteer contributing to international LGBTQIA+ solidarity. They enjoy painting and hiking in their free time.