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“No one deliberately chooses to live on the street," says Vanessa Fusco, Fundraising Manager at local charity DoucheFLUX. 

"When a person ends up on the street, it is often the result of a chain of difficulties in life: loss of job, divorce, addictions, mental health problems. Homeless people are human beings - it is important for them to have self-esteem and set goals. A poor self-image makes (re) integration much more difficult. DoucheFLUX not only gives them access to a shower but helps them become self-confident and get back on their feet.” 

In 2022, too, UNIBA Partners supported DoucheFLUX.

“The gradual erosion of global press freedom, with seeds of mistrust increasingly being sown, ultimately threatens our human rights and our ability to make informed, fact-based decisions”, said Kelly Walls, Executive Director of The Guardian Foundation and closing speaker at UNIBA Partners' Worldwide 2023 Conference in Barcelona.

"Independent journalism is critical to our ability to navigate an increasingly complex world", says Mareen Hüffmeier, UNIBA Partners CEO. "We deeply believe that this matters and in this conference our Partners are contributing funds to support The Guardian foundation."

From the very first days of the war UNIBA Partners energetically supported our Ukrainian Partner's efforts to source and distribute urgently needed tactical medical kits.

In Europe, supplies of these life saving kits disappeared almost immediately with the onset of the war.

Thanks to huge support from our Partners, UNIBA was able to source and order hundreds of kits over the following weeks and to ensure their safe arrival in Kiev. From there BritMark then organised distribution of the kits to those areas most in need of medical supplies.

Thanks to the extremely rapid and generous response of our Partners, UNIBA was able to ship medical kits worth €150,000 into Ukraine.

UNIBA Partners are proud to have supported Travis Bailey of Australia-based Partner Advice First competing in the Noosa Triathlon. Travis and his fellow team members raised over A$50,000 at this anual event orgnanized by Make-A-Wish Australia.

Make-A-Wish helps children with. critial ilnes and disease by making some of their wishes come true. They have made unicorns fly, sent kids to the moon, and are determined to grant a wish for every eligible child. 

UNIBA partners continue to support various social responsibility causes and recently helped its longstanding Partner Sutton Winson to raise £ 15,000 for homeless people. 

Every year, the UK-based charity organization "Off the Fence" organizes the "Big sleep out" - a fundraising event aiming to increase awareness of the homeless crisis and collect vital funds to provide them with everyday necessities that improve their living conditions. 

Besides financial donations, the team of Sutton Winson put themselves into the shoes of people living on the streets. They spent a cold night out on the chilly ground, inside the shelter made of cardboard.

"Off the Fence" is a charity organization based in Brighton & Hove, UK, which helps to restore the lives and hopes of the homeless and vulnerable people.

Remember that day you couldn’t get a shower before a meeting? Or that time you felt really underdressed?
We take our daily shower(s), our dress habits for granted – and don’t even realize the extent to which they define how we feel and how others react to us.

In 2021, UNIBA Partners is sponsoring DoucheFLUX, a Brussels association which offers essential basic services to homeless people.
Besides showers, hygiene products and clean clothes, DoucheFLUX also provides psychological care and legal advice, arranges temporary accommodation for those in need and organizes awareness-activities – all aiming to deconstruct stereotypes around extreme poverty.

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