Growing up safely in Sweden
Your Corporate can help ensure that more children and young people have a safe childhood in Sweden. All children have the right to a good childhood - a childhood where they can focus on school, find hobbies and fulfill their dreams.
Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad is a meeting place where children and young people have the opportunity to create positive change for themselves and others based on their own interests and dreams. Together with, among others, the local business community, conditions are created for jobs and faith in the future - instead of exclusion and crime.
This is what your Corporate can contribute to by supporting Safe Childhood in Sweden
Examples of activities organized by Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad:
- Homework help
- Job preparation interventions
- Leadership training
- Meaningful leisure activities
- Conversation groups
- Community guidance
- Parent empowerment interventions.
Before, it was as if nobody cared about us or our future, not even ourselves. With the Future Workshop, we are not only changing the way we see our area, we are also changing ourselves as people.
Personal development and community
We design activities together with the participants, for increased cohesion, networking and personal development.
Social mobilization
We encourage and support local initiatives and cooperation to reduce social exclusion and develop the local area.
Local advocacy
We offer a forum where participants can make their voices heard, to raise and solve problems related to their own neighborhood.
Moving towards the world of work
We offer interventions that strengthen participants' opportunities to enter and establish themselves in the labor market.
Story from Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad
Young leaders take place in Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad
Zamzam is thinking about becoming a manager in the future. And Ibrahim hopes to start his own Corporate. These dreams can become reality thanks to the Young Leaders training organized by Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad.
- It was very educational and I have gained a completely different perspective on how to treat people," says Zamzam.
What are the roles in a group? How do your decisions affect others? And how should you behave to be a good leader? These are questions that 17-year-old Zamzam Hassan Weheliye and 20-year-old Ibrahim Dervisch discussed, and learned more about, during the Young Leaders training at Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad in Gränby.
- I had never attended an extracurricular program before, so it was very new to me. But I learned a lot and during the discussions it was easy to relate to situations that can occur in a group of friends or at work. It wasn't just a lot of talking all the time, but also practical tasks that allowed us to understand everything better," says Zamzam. In particular, she recalls a specific exercise where participants were divided into small groups and had to build a tall tower together - without talking to each other. Instead, they had to communicate in other ways that made the group dynamic completely different.
- It was interesting to see how the roles changed and how many different roles there are in a group. I found that part exciting to talk about afterwards.
The idea of the training is to utilize the potential of young people so that they can become leaders in groups and activities within Erikshjälpen Framtidsverkstad. But also to give them knowledge and tools to be able to grow as people and as role models for other young people.
Zamzam says that the training has given her a whole new perspective on how to deal with people in different situations. Whether it is among friends at school or among colleagues in a future job.
- Above all, I have learned not to be as judgmental as before and that leading does not always mean controlling others. Another thing I've learned is not to take up so much space, but instead to let others take their place and give them time and space. I'm happy to lead, but I'm just as happy to step back and let people learn in their own way," she says.
Above all, I have learned not to be as judgmental as before and that leading does not always mean controlling others.
Ibrahim Dervisch found out about the training through a post on Snapchat and immediately signed himself and a friend up. He is studying to be an economist and hopes to one day start his own Corporate where he can help others develop and achieve their dreams.
- I have learned what are good decisions and what are bad decisions and at the same time be able to show others what decisions are good. Especially towards someone who is younger than I am. For example, if there is a fight between the brothers at home, or between friends, I can now handle the situation in a good way," he says.
I have learned what are good and bad decisions and at the same time be able to show others what decisions are good. Especially towards someone who is younger than I am.
Both Ibrahim and Zamzam have already benefited from the training, and for Zamzam, she was quickly thrown into the thick of things when she was leading a day camp with a group of 10-year-old children. Right then and there, she really understood the importance of stepping back and giving children the time they need. It's a skill she believes will come in handy in the workplace too.
- "I can see myself as a manager in a larger company or organization in the future, but right now I just want to live life," she says.
Published: 09 October 2025
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