Story | In Italy, thousands of children are orphaned each year due to domestic femicide. Italians ignore this, including the government who was withholding €12M in funding for them, due to bureaucracy and lack of public awareness. How could we raise awareness to release the funds while helping prevent future femicides? Through the only way children ask for help: drawings. On International Children’s day we placed 2,000 copies of a real drawing made by a femicide orphan in all Italian IKEAs. We proved that without any formal training, nobody knew what to look for, until we told people the story behind the drawing with an immersive experience that we shared online. We asked for a change with a petition and we sparked a conversation: in less than a month we got 8x the number of signatures needed for the petition. And most importantly, the Italian Minister for Economic Affairs unlocked the funds. |