The aim of the “Veggera Project” is to engage women living in rural areas in Crete in issues concerning gender equality and stereotypes. It aspires to create a strong supportive community among women in the village, contribute to the tightening of bonds between them and reveal their potential. The majority of women in rural areas don’t take advantage of the expertise and experts that exist in the cities due partly to social and geographical isolation and partly to their lack of time because of their duties of home, family and child care. The “Veggera Project” is innovative because:

• It reduces geographical and mobility limitations by bringing experts and specialists to the women in the village.
• It eliminates mobility restrictions due to child care; creative participatory activities will be organized by a theater teacher for the women's children for the duration of the workshops.
• It empowers women through a participatory and entertaining process in formulating the content of workshops based on their own ideas and knowledge.

“Women’s herstories”: past / present / future was a small scale project aiming at bringing forward empowering stories of women. (“herstory”- a wordplay about history)

Women’s stories are usually kept in the dark. The project wanted to make their stories heard; to see their lives and to learn their experiences, because the past is always necessary in order to go forward. And their stories become also our collective history. The project aspired to recreate the sense of continuity between the generations, by treasuring recipes, remedies or objects that go from generation to generation among women. Through interviews with women a small booklet was created in English and Greek in order for these stories to continue to empower in other countries and to function as a connection to the large scale project in Greece. At the same time an exhibition was created at zakk with their photos and their empowering words.