On 9 May 2017 Solidarity Now and 14 more NGOs urge the Greek Government to immediately reverse the recent policy excluding asylum-seekers on the Greek islands who appeal negative asylum decisions from the possibility of participating later on in the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme and forcing those […]
by George Kanaris, Social Services Coordinator at SolidarityNow’s Athens Solidarity Center. The integration of the newly arrived refugees is one of the biggest challenges that the Greek society will face in the coming years. Quite a big part of the currently residing in Greece refugees will be relocated in other countries, another big part will be […]
SolidarityNow implements the Cash4Solidarity program for the beneficiaries of its Home for Hope program SolidarityNow supports the most vulnerable people in any way. How? By strengthening, empowering, and enabling them to take back control over their lives, with dignity and self-sufficiency. To achieve this objective, SolidarityNow is implementing the cash transfer project|Cash4Solidarity, for all […]
SolidarityNow, with the support of the Guerrilla Foundation and in collaboration with the Society for the Care of Minors (SMA) and the Panhellenic Association of Professional Translators Graduates of the Ionian University (PEEMPIP) organizes a comprehensive training programme for community interpreters and cultural mediators in Athens and Thessaloniki. Participants The participants must be native in […]
SolidarityNow, as one of the dynamic representatives of the European civil society, expresses its support for the Civil Society Europe (CSE) network and its initiative to gather support signatures for the Hungarian NGOs that have recently been targeted by the government given the bill on the “transparency of organizations receiving foreign funds”. At the same […]
4 Ermis Awards for the “Home for Hope” awareness campaign of SolidarityNow Athens, April 6th, 2017 The awareness campaign implemented by SolidarityNow, with the support of the UNHCR, dedicated to the hosting program entitled “Home for Hope” was honored with four creativity prizes in the Ermis Awards for 2016. This year’s award night […]
Imperative the investigation of EU funding for Greece to manage the refugee crisis Athens, April 4th, 2017 On Monday, March 13th 2017, SolidarityNow submitted a petition to the European Parliament (Committee on Petitions – PETI) requesting that it investigates the connection between European Union funding in Greece and the dismal reception conditions for individuals seeking […]
SolidarityNow utilizes the new technology and process in the production of audiovisual material 360o to record and highlight the negative and often inhumane conditions under which the refugees live; the refugees trapped for months in the reception camps of the Greek islands. The organization’s goal is to high-point the existing major problem and underline the urgent […]
