The associations En Avant Toute(s) and EMANIK Awarded the RAJApeople Prizes 2021

RAJA Group Employees Commitment to Women’s Rights Through Payroll Giving

Since 2013, RAJA Group has offered employees the opportunity to participate in microDON (payroll giving) in support of associations backed by the Foundation. This year, thanks to the engagement of 160 donors, €14,606 was collected. Participants were invited to vote for their two preferred projects – one in France and one internationally – to award the RAJApeople Prizes 2021.

As Danièle Marcovici recalled during the award ceremony, microDON, or “payroll giving,” enables employees to donate each month a few cents to a few euros from their salary, with an annual vote to select two supported associations that will receive the year’s collected funds.

RAJApeople France Prize – En Avant Toute(s)

Julie Chrétiennot, Finance and Reporting Officer, and Aurélie Garnier-Brun, Director and Spokesperson of En Avant Toute(s), received the RAJApeople France Prize for the association’s project to expand the “commentonsaime.fr” online chat, providing assistance to victims of sexist and sexual violence and raising public awareness across France. Young women are particularly affected by such violence: nearly one in seven women aged 20 to 24 has experienced violence from a partner. To reach this specific audience, En Avant Toute(s) created the chat platform www.commentonsaime.fr in 2016, enabling women victims who write in to find safety and access services adapted to their needs.

RAJApeople International Prize – EMANIK

Alexia Aranzueque, Project Manager, and Stella Claude, President of EMANIK, received the RAJApeople International Prize for the association’s project to train a group of adolescents with disabilities, along with their mothers, in bakery and pastry-making in Peru. In the Campoy community, several adolescents live with disabilities; a difficult situation also for their mothers. EMANIK provides psychological support, workshops for empowerment and self-confidence, and professional training in bakery and pastry-making to foster the social integration and future autonomy of these young people, while promoting the empowerment of their mothers.

RAJApeople 2020 Recap

France Category: The RAJApeople 2020 Prize enabled Femmes pour le Dire, Femmes pour Agir (FDFA) to improve support for women with disabilities who are victims of violence through helplines, psychological assistance, creative activities, and well-being sessions.

International Category: With the RAJApeople 2020 Prize, Movement France strengthened its actions in Burkina Faso to break the taboo around menstruation and train women in livelihood-generating activities by providing a sustainable solution through workshops producing reusable sanitary pads.