Empower displaced women & girls.
Help create safe spaces!
Your support brings life-changing self-defense education directly to those who need it most.
Empower displaced women & girls.
Help create safe spaces!
Your support brings life-changing self-defense education directly to those who need it most.
235 students empowered since 2019
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235 students empowered since 2019 *
Envisioning a world free of gender-based violence.
Watch our video to learn how we try to do so.
Creating change, one women at a time.
Empowerment through presence • Self-defense is solidarity • Women supporting women • Trust before training • Showing up matters • Empowerment through presence •
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Empowerment through presence • Self-defense is solidarity • Women supporting women • Trust before training • Showing up matters • Empowerment through presence • •
It all begins with showing up.
Sometimes we teach a full self-defense class.
Sometimes we talk to one woman by the van.
Sometimes, no one comes.
But we still show up. Because presence matters.
EmpowerVan is a feminist, mobile project bringing free self-defense and empowerment to displaced women in refugee camps.
We create space for movement, for strength, for connection, even when everything else is uncertain.
Impact in Numbers
8’789
KM’s driven
We are driven to reach the most vulnerable people in isolated locations
19
Locations
We have taught in 2 continents and 3 countries.
235
Students empowered
Every student matters, we will teach even if only one person shows up, because we are determined to make a difference where we can!
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Hours taught
Our weekly self-defense classes are between 60 - 90 minutes, and a full seminar consists of 8 hours of class.
Programmatic Activities
Physical Self Defense Classes
Every week, we travel to refugee camps near Athens with our fully equipped van, in order to facilitate physical self-defense classes to the women and girls living inside the camps.
Empowerment Self Defense Seminar
We go to shelters and organizations in order to teach holistic empowerment self defense seminars (8h).
Training for Aid Workers
We support the helping hands in the field to create safer spaces, by training them in de-escalation, bystander intervention and by addressing and reflecting on boundaries in diverse cultural settings.