IDC Members and partners, including SolidarityNow, write to express our collective concern that, “A Fundamentally Different Approach is Needed” to the immigration detention of migrants in Europe. In advance of a consultation with key civil society stakeholders from 22-23 June 2017 at the Council of Europe Headquarters in Strasbourg, over 30 national, regional and international civil society organisations […]
A new Child and Family Support Hub (CFSH or “Blue Dot”) is inaugurated today, as the result of the collaboration between the City of Athens, and more specifically the Department for the Support and Social Integration of Migrants and Refugees, and the NGO SolidarityNow. The initiative, which targets refugee and migrant women and children, is […]
World Refugee Day: SolidarityNow underlines the needs on the ground for refugees living in Greece. The celebration of the World Refugee Day finds our country at a crucial moment. At present, there are no more than 40,000 refugees in the Greek mainland; nevertheless, an unreasonably large number of them still live in camps under conditions […]
New Technology Lets Anyone with a Spare Bedroom Open Their Home, Help Address Global Refugee Crisis Airbnb, the world’s leading hospitality company, in partnership with SolidarityNow, a pioneering Greek NGO working with migrants and refugees, launched Open Homes in Greece, a new platform that will make it easier for people to open their homes […]
Commemorating World Refugee Day, 15 organizations invite the citizens of Athens «TOGETHER» with the refugees to an open discussion about the new reality of refugees after the most difficult journey of their life. The event will take place from 18:30 pm until 21:00 pm on Wednesday, June 21 in the garden café of the Numismatic […]
Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway as well as the Ambassador of Norway in Greece visited on Friday, June 9th, the organization’s Solidarity Center in Athens, in the framework of the overall SOAM Program “Supporting Organizations that assist migrant asylum-seeking population in Greece”. The President of SolidarityNow, Mr. Stelios Zavvos, welcomed Ms. […]
By Eirini Vlachou, lawyer, Head of Legal Service at the Athens Solidarity Center of Solidarity Now The most important issue one thinks of when dealing theoretically or practically with the so-called refugee crisis in Greece and the EU, is the integration of recognized refugees into the labour market and the Greek and European society […]
“For how long will I be longing you For how long will I be crazy away from you, my homeland” With these lyrics, from an old traditional song of his country, Najeem, a refugee from Iraq, begins his tour in the Samos camp where he currently lives. By holding the camera of SolidarityNow, he presents […]
