Our projects
PAPATYA regularly sets up projects for the target groups of girls and women with refugee and migration backgrounds, who are affected by domestic violence. The focus issues of our projects are and have always been the improvement and maintenance of protection from domestic violence, violence in the name of honour, forced marriage and abduction.
Since 1997 PAPATYA has been involved in improving the DAPHNE programmes of the European Community for the protection and help for the target groups within the EU. Still today the protection institution PAPATYA is still a rarity not only in Germany but in the whole EU although many NGOs see the protection centres as urgently needed. In the context of the EU projects we, as experts, have held and spoken at a range of conferences in Berlin, which have included participants from the EU.
We cooperate with NGOs throughout Europe, which offer advice and protection for girls and women with refugee and migration backgrounds. Our cooperation partners work in Sweden, Finland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Turkey.
Overview of our Projects
“Inter-cultural online counselling for young women and girls of migration background threatened with family violence”
A model project conducted by Papatya and supported by BMFSFJ.
“Measures against violence in the name of honour”
A project by the Swedish women’s organisation Kvinnoforum, sponsored in the European Program against Poverty and Social Exclusion.
„Muslim Women Across Europe – Voices From Behind the Veil“
An internet project of the University of Nottingham.
“Improvement of Offers for Help for Girls and Young Women from the Islamic Cultural Area”
The project consisted of nine partner organisations from Germany, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain, Austria and Turkey, which specialised in offering help to girls with a special need for protection.
Protection from Family Violence for Girls and Young Women from the Islamic Cultural Area
Our first EU project in the brand new Daphne Program of the European Commission: Papatya was the lead organisation.
