We believe in a society where everyone can be part of the community.
The young people who attend a programme at Siu-Tsiu should be the frontrunners of the future. They have agreed to participate in an endeavour that will lift both them and the local community. It takes courage and strength to take responsibility for your own life and the community you are part of. We use work identity and collegiality as leverage for this development. Many tasks in society require collaboration and different competences to be solved. And the relationship between colleagues is important – it must be curious, good and respectful. We help and support each other as we work and learn together. We depend on each other. And we miss each other when one of us is home from work. We care about what we do and how we do it. It is in community that things can succeed.
Siu-Tsiu works for sustainability in the broadest possible sense. We work for the Sustainable Development Goals and are particularly concerned with goals 8, 11 and 17. This is where we can make a difference.
Naturally, we must be able to measure if and when we succeed. We measure well-being, socio-economics and the individual’s path to self-sufficiency, education and happiness. Siu-Tsiu must be a good investment for the individual young person – and a good investment for society – a society where everyone is part of the community.
Through the project, the goal is for more young people to have a good life by being part of a working community in a social enterprise.
These will be real jobs that give citizens a meaningful everyday life and an opportunity to contribute to the development of their local community.
The social economy enterprises will also help strengthen the local business community in Greenland’s towns and cities.
Social enterprises are expected to focus on a range of functions that will strengthen local communities, including cleaning up and maintaining urban spaces, and establishing shops and cafés to bring life to cities.
The project is built on the establishment of broad partnerships between key actors in Greenlandic society – the self-government, the Greenlandic municipalities, Greenlandic companies – and of course the independent institution Siu-Tsiu and the new Greenlandic social economy companies.
Good co-operation and an active contribution from many actors is crucial to the success of the project.
Target 17.17 is particularly close to this endeavour:
Encourage and promote effective public partnerships, public-private partnerships and civil society partnerships that build on lessons learnt and resource strategies from partnerships.