Our Mission & Values
To partner with grassroots and community-based organisations to strengthen safeguarding and wellbeing through capacity-sharing, co-creation, and accessible support shaped by lived experience.
Partner-centred – We listen first and adapt to each organisation’s goals and culture.
Collaborative – We value local knowledge and co-create solutions.
Accessible – We make safeguarding and wellbeing understandable and affordable.
Empathetic – We design support that strengthens, not strains, small teams.
Humanitarians are resilient.
The Pandora Project was born from the knowledge and understanding that helpers need to be helped. Humanity has always faced challenges and from within these challenges have risen humanitarians, who have dedicated their time and energy to helping others. These actions can take their toll on the mind and body of the helper and manifest themselves in the form of stress, trauma, burnout and physical issues.
At The Pandora Project we believe that humanitarians, volunteers and helpers should have access to services that support them in their wellbeing and building their resilience. There exists systematic stigma and a lack of supportive resources for people working within this sector, even more so in the small grassroots organisations that have been created to give direct aid to people in need.
Currently, at The Pandora Project we offer a database of resources, programs and facilitators that are available to humanitarian organisations and volunteers to support them in building resilience and nurturing well being. As a dedicated team of humanitarian educators and practitioners we are driven to break the stigma and be the change that we want to see in Humanitarian aid.
We are continuously building partnerships, making connections and undertaking careful research Internationally. We support organisations in their capacity strengthening journey with a commitment to life long learning and development of our own practice and approach.
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Emily Wilson
Founder, Humanitarian, Educator