One year of co-action at the Athens Solidarity Center Multiple benefits and results On Thursday, January 14, 2016, the organizations ARSIS, PRAKSIS, NETWORK FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS, ASSOCIATION TOGETHER FOR CHILDREN, THE ASYLUM SERVICE and, SolidarityNow invite you to a joint Press Conference to mark the first anniversary of the Athens Solidarity Center. After the co- […]

Christmas celebration for 300 children at the Athens Solidarity Center! Athens, 21 December 2015. Last Saturday on the 19th of December, a special multicultural Christmas celebration was enjoyed by more than 300 children who came accompanied by their parents at the Athens Solidarity Center. At the SolidarityNow Center all the staff, partners and volunteers welcomed […]

We wish to share with you some good news: #SolidarityNow was awarded for its contribution with the Solidarity Centers! Yesterday, in the Auditorium of the Acropolis Museum, and within the frame of #BravoSustainabilityAwards, we won one of three distinctions in the category «Bravo Society» for the program Solidarity Centers. On behalf of our entire Team, […]

By Emma Bonino, a former Italian minister of foreign affairs, minister of international trade, and EU commissioner, and a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Εurope’s so-called refugee crisis should never have become an emergency. Accommodating one million asylum-seekers should not be a huge challenge for the European Union – an […]

by Nicos C . Alivizatos Antigone Lyberaki Christos Rozakis Anna Triantafyllidou* The article was published in Kathimerini on 06/12/2015. There is no point on simply saying “do not let the terrorists get in.” When you turn your back on every refugee, because he/she could be a terrorist, you turn your back on almost 20 million […]

by Elli Xenou, Director of Programs, SolidarityNow (article published in Huffington Post, Greece, 3.12.2015) Border of Greece – FYROM, Idomeni. Old images come to my mind, trucks with medical supplies crossing the border, army, police and NGOs: the scene of another, previous crisis, the war in Kosovo and former Yugoslavia… I recover the image from […]

Photo-journey of “SolidarityNow” for the refugee crisis, through social media Athens, December 3rd 2015. Starting today and for the next two months, “SolidarityNow” -in collaboration with the internationally-renowned photographer George Moutafis-, brings people and their personal stories to the forefront, amidst the refugee crisis. This photographic journey is titled “Listen to My Story” and focuses […]

Policy Brief by Anna Triandafyllidou Professor, European University Institute, Florence, Italy Member of Board of Directors, Solidarity Now The Refugee Flows: An Apocalyptic Scenario Despite being confronted with a severe economic and social crisis for the past six years, Greece has been faced with exponentially rising flows of asylum seekers and irregular migrants since 2013, and […]