Solidrinks - Support Refugees

We develop unique soft drinks from fair trade ingredients and support refugees’ own projects and initiatives with a fixed amount per bottle and all profits.

Our idea was to find an everyday object that can continuously generate donations and that is visible in public and able to transport important messages. Something that makes donating transparent and simple but informative, an everyday companion that engages us in conversations and that motivates us to take a hand in everyday politics.

And then there was SOLIMATE, our first trick, a solidrink with an outstanding taste that supports sustainable consumption and mingles with current debates in public, bringing important ideas and objectives to the table, to cafés and clubs, to the parks and sports fields.

Solidrinks establishes a sustainable donation system to support refugee initiatives and it motivates people to engage in important questions of our time. We think that a transformation towards a truly inclusive society is only possible if each and everyone can participate. We start with our own project, working in tandems: At Solidrinks people with and without a history of migration or escape share a task in the project.

Our project goal is to develop the SOLITANDEM job-sharing further via the crowdfunding and to find a way to pay it adequately. We want to build tandem-jobs that make working easier and more fun for everyone involved. We’re planning trainee positions for refugees that not only leave room for personal professional development but also have a very practical impact on the individual’s right to residence, giving the refugees in the team a perspective to stay and participate actively.

Our project is for all of you out there! For everyone who enjoys having a fair trade soda and who wants to support the commitment of others; for all of you who ask yourself from time to time: what is it that I myself can do?

We support refugees in two ways: by establishing job opportunities and, particularly, by supporting their own initiatives and projects. This caters to a society in diversity and solidarity.

Solidrinks asks you to get involved and to speak up! You can support initiatives beyond complicated funding guidelines and lengthy bureaucratic processes. Thanks to the SOLISHOUTS, you know immediately where your support goes! You get to know initiatives in your neighbourhood and you can decide to join right away or to spread their messages.

Since October 2015, we’ve all worked voluntarily on our project Solidrinks. Even -or maybe especially- the most social business model doesn’t pay for itself from day 1. Friends and family loaned money to enable the very first small production of Solimate in 2016. They financed our testing phase and helped to materialise our vision. Luckily, people really enjoy the Solimate (hurraaa!) and the bottles are almost sold… so you need to help us!

Since October 2015 we’ve all worked pro bono on our project. Reaching the funding goal of 50.000 Euro lets us pay refugees’ trainee positions and rent for one year, and, additionally, we can bottle the 0,5l Solimate (by popular request ;)) OR finance the new Solidrink. We also plan to finance a workshop to develop the SOLISHOUT campaign and labels together with the coming supported initiatives: for more impact and public reach.

If we reach the funding threshold of 20.000 Euro, we can already pay one trainee position and let our dream of an own office (yes we still work in different team member’s kitchens and living rooms) or an own corner in a co-working space come true. This would facilitate in particular the infrastructure of our intercultural job-sharing and make Solidrinks even more hospitable.

To be able to plan for more than a few months in advance and to finally realise the next Solidrinks in the pipeline, we would need 100.000 Euro. This would mean a backed Solidrinks-business year, in which we can develop sales to an extent that makes our social business stand on its of feet in summer/autumn 2018. This also means: more profit that goes to the initiatives and more sustainable trainee positions for refugees.

In the end: every cent counts and can be invested meaningful and effective. It also all depends on the speed and extent of you drinking along! Save your own starter package, the Berlin drink wodka-mate or dinner with the team now by choosing a reward on the right and spread the word in your home town, your favourite bar and on Facebook!