October 10th marks World Mental Health Day, a global reminder of the importance of mental well-being and the transformative power of support. At SolidarityNow, we believe that every person deserves access to care, compassion, and the opportunity to flourish. This year’s theme, “Access to services–Mental health in catastrophes and emergencies,” highlights the need to safeguard […]
This is certainly not the phrase a career counselor wants to hear, because it usually means that the person speaking is seeking work under vulnerable conditions, shaped by personal or social challenges. At the Employment Service of the Athens Solidarity Center by SolidarityNow, we have also seen that when the job seeker is a woman, […]
Every person carries a story, memories and hardships. Through the Female Forward project, we had the opportunity to meet women who found the strength to reclaim their future. A. is one of the many women who managed to stand on her feet again. Her journey offered us valuable life lessons of persistence, resilience, and inner […]
by the Blue Solidarity Center in Thessaloniki Ms. X, first visited the Blue Solidarity Center in December 2024, accompanied by her children’s teacher. A single mother of five, she carried with her the burden of chronic homelessness and the isolation that often comes with the lack of a support network. The reason for her visit […]
Noureddine chose to build a new life in Greece the moment he became an adult, determined to carve out a better future. A true polyglot—fluent in Arabic, French, Italian, and Greek—he’s a resilient and skilled man who takes life as it comes, saying simply, “C’est la vie.” For years, he worked successfully in Athens as […]
Tania arrived in Greece just days after the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022. Only a few days earlier, she had completed her first round of treatment for a sudden health issue that, as she says, “came into my life as unexpectedly as the war.” She fled her country accompanied by her then […]
We are once again in the midst of tax season, and at SolidarityNow, we are highlighting the work of the Accounting Support Service operating at the Athens Solidarity Center. What many experience as just another tedious bureaucratic task, for others, it becomes a crucial tool for becoming visible. Being “seen” by the state, having one’s […]
It is midday and S., a young woman, visits the Blue Refugee Centre (BRC) in Thessaloniki, having an appointment at the Employability Service. The 20-year-old from Haiti accompanies a child who seems to be taking his first steps – now and then falling, now and then moving with determination and speed, and curiously searching everything. […]
