Every young person has the right to make a change. In Taksvärkki, youth make impact together. The profits of the 2024–2025 Taksvärkki fundraising campaign allow youth to continue their advocacy work.
What is Taksvärkki?
- The original Taksvärkki fundraising campaign has been used to promote young people’s rights since 1967.
- On Taksvärkki Day young people work for one day. Earnings from the work are donated to the Taksvärkki fundraising campaign.
- Taksvärkki Day can be organized anytime during the school year.
When do you feel safe?
Every young person has the right to security. Young people all over the world experience unsafety.
Discussion on safety often emphasizes threats such as wars, violence, crime and climate crisis. Safety experienced in daily life is impacted by other factors as well, such as familiar people, health and trust in oneself and the future. The hope for life without fear connects young people around the world.
The Taksvärkki campaign When you feel safe focuses on young people making an impact. We want to encourage young people to experiment and find unique ways to influence things that are important to them.
Get to know young changemakers and the goals of Taksvärkki’s campaign on the “When you feel safe” -website. On the campaign website, you will find messages and video messages from youth, as well as instructions for schools participating in the Taksvärkki fundraising campaign.
Proceeds from the Taksvärkki fundraising will support the work of youth organizations in Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal and Sierra Leone. Youth groups defend the equal rights of young people and the appreciation of diversity. Non-discrimination is a key principle of the groups.
Young people work together with adults and decision-makers. This is how we bring about change.
The challenges are global and common. Together we can solve them. By participating in the Taksvärkki Workday you are contributing to building a fairer world.
Taksvärkki from youth to youth
The purpose of Taksvärkki campaigns is to encourage Finnish students and pupils to become active global citizens and arouse the desire to act for a fairer world.
By participating in Taksvärkki and through their Taksvärkki Workday, Finnish youth support Taksvärkki’s development projects. The goal is that youth will become active actors in their communities and promoters of development.
Free global education materials will be sent to all participating schools: campaign posters and a student guide to be used in lessons. The video messages of the young people can be viewed on Taksvärkki campaign “When you feel safe” website. You can participate in the campaign and the Taksvärkki fundraising campaign at any time during the 2023–2024 academic year.
In Finland, the Taksvärkki campaign has a strong development education component. Our volunteer Global Educators visit elementary and secondary schools in different parts of Finland and hold workshops on youth advocacy work, equality, discrimination, and children’s rights. These workshops are complemented by high-quality learning materials and study packages for teachers. The goal is to raise a sense of global responsibility in Finnish youth and to build links between youth.
Your Taksvärkki workday can be any day during the school year. Do you need help or tips organizing a Taksvärkki Day? Please contact us: ilmoittautuminen@taksvarkki.fi
Taksvärkki ry’s fundraising permits in Finland: RA/2021/1029 (mainland Finland, from 13.8.2021) and ÅLR 2024/3137 (Åland, 1.8.2024–31.7.2025).
Do you need help or tips organizing a Taksvärkki Day? Please contact us!
Milka Autio
Fundraising Coordinator
ilmoittautuminen@taksvarkki.fi
+358 50 341 5507
"When I advocate something and it happens, it gives me strength and makes me want to do more."
- Fatu, 15, Sierra Leone
Previous Taksvärkki campaigns
Here you find the websites of Taksvärkki campaigns from previous years.
You make a difference, Taksvärkki campaign 2023–2024
Who cares?, Taksvärkki campaign 2022–2023
What is stopping you?, Taksvärkki campaign 2021–2022
Right to be me, Taksvärkki campaign 2020–2021