It is always promising to discuss with young people who, although things have not turned out very well for them, they are actively present in their lives and do not leave only the external conditions to determine their present and future. Mohadesa, a 15-year-old girl from Afghanistan, is such a young person. She currently lives […]
Roya has just turned 18. She is from Afghanistan, and she has been living in Greece since she was 15. The first stop of her life in the new country was Samos, then Preveza and Thebes. In Thebes and in the open accommodation structure for refugees and asylum seekers, Roya got to know SolidarityNow. She […]
The 15-year-old Mohadesa, Sezara and Muzhda live in the open accommodation structure for refugees and asylum seekers in Ritsona while the just-turned-18 Roya resides in the structure of Thebes. What have they in common? Painting. And Vincent van Gogh, whom they all picked as they ‘re favorite artist. Four young women from Afghanistan, who came […]
by the Employability Service of the Athens Solidarity Center* Ujjal is a 20-year-old man from Bangladesh and asylum seeker in Greece. He arrived in the country as an unaccompanied minor when he was 17, he lived in a shelter for minors, he registered at High School and started learning the Greek language. Ujjal turned 18 […]
by the Social Service of the Athens Solidarity Center* The Social Service of the Athens Solidarity Center by SolidarityNow provides daily specialized and personalized support to beneficiaries from different backgrounds with multiple needs. One of the most interesting and challenging cases that we recently took care of, was the one of N.K., a woman from […]
Marina Kanta, Team Leader, Legal Service Athens Solidarity Center*, SolidarityNow On the World Refugee Day, I would like to speak TO the refugees and not for the refugees. I do not know the language of the programs …”means of verification, results, inputs, outputs, indicators, numbers”… However, I know the language we have spoken with the […]
International Day of Families | May 15, 2021 Hadia and her family are from Hanges, a small village in the city of Duhok in Iraq. In 2019, Hadia and her eight children arrived in Greece through Evros, after wandering for several days and facing difficult weather conditions. Hadia however never lost her faith, since she […]
International Day of Families | May 15, 2021 Rihan and her family are from Kurdistan. They were forced to flee their country, as their lives were in danger. In August 2018, she arrived in Greece with her children, walking through Evros, after several days of hardship and difficulties. Now, they are living in the Open […]
