For vulnerable groups, especially single mothers and young people from children´s homes (mostly Roma people), it is very difficult to find a job and they are often caught in a hopeless situation. Therefore, projects such as Dorka Bags, which provide a certain number of jobs and an opportunity to earn money, are of great importance. A big plus is that this project links active aid to people with ecology.
Dorka Bags is a project for the ecological use of PVC materials from the waste of advertising industry by making bags through the involvement of vulnerable groups living in crisis centres (single mothers, young people without work experience, many from the Roma minority). The project aims to professionalize the ongoing production of ecological bags, to find a suitable form of its transformation into social entrepreneurship, to create job opportunities for clients, increase their working skills and to draw attention to their problems. This project includes 3 components: 1. environmental, 2. creating opportunities, 3. spread awareness about the problem to the business environment.
Creative Pro s.r.o has been a project partner since its inception. It is the ideological father of the project. Creative Pro has from the beginning to spread the idea of environmentally friendly use of PVC from advertising banners among its clients, partners and colleagues in the advertising and event environment and to search for Slovak and multinational companies who would be interested in these bags as well as problems of vulnerable groups. Creative Pro s.r.o. will support the transformation of Dorka bags into social entrepreneurship. DeDo Foundation is one of the founders of Dorka n.o. and the main investors of all Dorka centres in Slovakia, which not only have built but continue to support them financially and professionally and lead them conceptually.