“My dreams were more important than my parents’ abuse” Anna is 20 years old, lives in Thessaloniki, has a cat and is studying fashion design. Her dream is to travel to Cuba and the Netherlands and be able to attend fashion classes through her school in Milan next year. Knowing Anna, no one can imagine […]
“I love myself and my daughters; when I felt that ‘I saved them’, I knew we would make it” The beautiful 34-year-old woman who welcomes us to her home in Athens is a refugee from Iran, a divorced mother of two and she chooses to introduce herself to us as ‘Maria’. Maria speaks farsi and […]
Migrant, refugee, redundant, abused, detained, marginalized women. Borders are closing, labor and individual rights are being violated, anti-abortion campaigns are being activated and hate speech has prevailed. Everything that has been claimed has been lost in recent years. Victims of these changes are mainly women, as they experience the most difficulties. According to the European […]
“In total, Zamir paid $9,300 to traffickers who repeatedly deceived him, so as to travel with his family to Greece from Iraq”. The story of Zamir is featured in the first “Mega Papers” broadcast on the Mega TV channel, about enormous contemporary human adversities. A predicament that constitutes the first of the three largest organized […]
Mariam, 27-year old, comes from Afghanistan and along with her daughter, who is 9 years old, have been living in Greece for the last four years. Mariam was a victim of domestic violence. The problems with her husband began when both of them were living in Afghanistan. She tried to break up from him but […]
Olga was born and raised in Greece. She has lived in the Patisia area for more than 30 years of her life, living in the same house. Olga is proud to say she has always been punctual in her financial obligations towards third parties, ensuring a decent standard of living for herself. Things have changed […]
Stefka was born and raised in Bulgaria. In the mid-1990s, she, like many of her compatriots, arrived at Greece in search of a better life, a life that would allow her access to basic rights, such as work and financial independence. 26 years later, Stefka has acquired the Greek citizenship and since 2007 she is […]
Mohammed is from Pakistan. He is 36 years old. He requested international protection and asylum and his request was rejected in both first and second degree. Mohammed has been diagnosed with a chronic kidney disease (CKD) at a terminal stage by Greek Public hospitals and since May 2019 he has joined a dialysis treatment program, […]
