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SKILLS FACTORY
SKILLS FACTORY
SKILLS FACTORY
SKILLS FACTORY
SKILLS FACTORY
SKILLS FACTORY
2025

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SKILLS FACTORY

Community-led Humanitarian Aid & Skills Center

While Europe continues to search for solutions to migration and integration - often through top-down programs that fail - the SKILLS FACTORY offers a living, working alternative. It is a community-led prototype that empowers displaced people to produce essential humanitarian aid themselves. By combining vocational training, self-managed production, and local cooperation, it transforms passive recipients into valued contributors. This model restores dignity, builds bridges with local communities, and proves that inclusion can be practical, sustainable, and urgently effective.

JURY STATEMENT

SKILLS FACTORY is a place where displaced people don’t just get help—they build, cook, sew, and create it themselves. It’s smart, hands-on, and full of heart. A powerful example of how dignity, skills, and community can turn crisis into opportunity.

Design

SELFMADE AID MKO

Samos, Vathy, GR
Date of Launch
2021

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