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By donating to Vikes, you support equal participation opportunities for marginalized groups, human rights, and social peace. Your support helps build sustainable societies in places people are forced to flee from.
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By donating to Vikes, you support equal participation opportunities for marginalized groups, human rights, and social peace. Your support helps build sustainable societies in places people are forced to flee from.
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You are funding investigative journalism training for a female journalist in Nepal.
You support the professional growth of a woman journalist, strengthen journalism’s role as a watchdog of power, and promote Nepal’s equal democratic development.
Thanks to investigative journalism supported by Vikes, a legislative reform is currently underway in Nepal.
Donate 50 € = 500 €
The radio programs reach rural residents, inform them about current issues, and promote local democracy.
Donate 100 € = 1000 €
You are funding the Miessakki training for ten male media executives in Somalia to prevent sexual harassment of female journalists.
The training includes:
• One training day
• Four peer group meetings
• Creating an equality plan for the workplace
• Initiating support person activities
Vikes’ Miessakki trainings have reached dozens of editors-in-chief and supervisors in Somalia.
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Fundraising principles
- Vikes’ main funder is the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, whose support enables the implementation of development cooperation. The Ministry’s funding requires that the organization also contributes its own share to development cooperation financing. This own funding share (10%) is covered, for example, through donations, support fees from partner organizations, and other fundraising activities. Every euro donated to Vikes is multiplied tenfold thanks to the Ministry’s program support.
Use of donations
- Donations are used to support Vikes’ work in Finland and partner countries.
- In 2024, we trained 660 journalists together with 14 partner organizations. Of those trained, 50% were women.
- In 2024, over 60 million rural people in Tanzania and Uganda were reached through radio stations supported by Vikes.
- Through the Women in Media project’s network, over 200 actors were reached during the year in Nepal and Tanzania.
- In Somalia, over 60 journalists, media leaders, and officials were trained in preventing sexual harassment as well as combating disinformation and hate speech.
Read more about the impact of Vikes’ work and external evaluations here, here, and here.
Fundraising guidelines
- Vikes’ fundraising is based on transparency, ethics, and goal orientation. We raise funds to support our work—promoting freedom of expression—using diverse methods.
- All funds received are used as planned and responsibly. Donors are clearly informed about the use of funds, and fundraising results are regularly monitored. Our operations follow good governance practices and build long-term relationships with supporters.
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- We collect and process personal data only for necessary purposes, such as event management and sending newsletters. Data is stored securely and only for as long as needed. Individuals have the right to access, correct, and delete their data, as well as to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority. Cookies are used on the website to improve the user experience.
Fundraising permit and payment service provider
Fundraising permit
- Vikes holds a fundraising permit RA/2022/39 issued by the Finnish Police Board, valid from February 1, 2022, until further notice.
Payment service provider
- The payment processing and service providers are Vipps MobilePay AS, Finnish branch (Aleksanterinkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki, Business ID 3330214-4), and Paytrail Oyj (Innova 2, Lutakonaukio 7, 40100 Jyväskylä, Business ID 2122839-7). Both operate as payment institutions under the Payment Services Act and ensure the secure processing of payments on our online service.