Greetings to our UNITED followers - it's that time of the year again!

14th to 27th of March this year are, once again, the European Action Weeks against Racism. Read more about the history of this day here.

2022 campaign

This year, the campaign will run for two weeks, starting on the 14th of March and ending on the 27th of March.

Our theme this year is "show your heart". Wear your heart on your sleeve: display your anti-racism activity like a badge of honour! Microvolunteer, micro-campaign, do a random act of kindness and take a picture of it with the hashtag #ShowYourHeart - and don't forget to tag us, whether on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

MICROVOLUNTEERING

UNITED calls on you all to participate in offering your time to your fellow people in the form of microvolunteering.

What is microvolunteering?

We have all been in the familiar situation of needing help and having to ask a close family member or friend for help. However, there are many who don’t have this option. This is where you come in – you can microvolunteer and make someone’s day a little bit better.

Microvolunteering is volunteering done in palatable, bite-sized chunks. It’s donating little bits of your time when and where you can, from wherever you are at, to contribute to a worthy cause. It’s more than retweeting a tweet, reposting a hashtag, signing a petition, taking a photo, or attending a webinar. It’s seeing someone in distress and offering help, it’s taking out the trash when your neighbor is sick, volunteering to share food, signing up at a hospital to donate blood. Anything with a good intention counts. It’s actions on a micro-scale that build up to something grander and larger with enough time and enough numbers. This is where our campaign comes in.

This time it is difficult to organise any offline action, so you are more than welcome, and also encouraged, to microvolunteer with us!

RUN YOUR OWN MICRO-CAMPAIGN

Your organisation can organise your own micro-campaign! For example, ask members of your organisation to create a picture or creative output related to anti-racism, and share it on your social media. Don’t have inspiration? Use our slogan for inspiration! You can ‘show your heart’ in many nice creative ways. And don’t forget to send us the outcomes so we can share them as well!

In other news....

UNITED is looking for interns!

The Budapest Secretariat is offering an ongoing internship opportunity.

Are you passionate about the cause of anti-racism, interculturalism, and human rights? Find out more about the post here!