Since the year 2000 SOLIDAR organises every year the Silver Rose Awards Ceremony in the European Parliament with the support of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. This event brings together more than 400 people to celebrate individuals and organisations whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world. Winners are sometimes well-known; others are simply ordinary people leading extraordinary lives, reaching out to the most vulnerable groups in their societies, advocating for their rights, campaigning for their needs, and providing essential services such as soup kitchens, housing, children’s holidays and literacy classes.