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 […]
We train tomorrow’s interpreters… today! Is Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Sorani, Kurmanji your mother tongue? Do you also speak Greek or English? Would you like to be trained as a community interpreter or intercultural mediator? #FutureInterpeters, the new program by SolidarityNow, addresses refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in Greece. The empowerment and acquisition of professional […]
mindthefact, the new Athens cultural festival will take place from 26 to 29 May and its aim is to bring together the people living next to us. On Friday 19 May, at 6.30 pm mindthefact in cooperation with SolidarityNow will meet you at Larissa Station with … balloon faces! The passers-by will paint their own balloon, they will […]
The Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) condemns the attacks against Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi asylum seekers, including a trans woman, that took place last week on Leros. According to the RVRN recordings, six (6) distinct attacks were perpetrated between midnight of May 2nd and the evening of May 4th. Three (3) incidents took place within […]
On 9 May 2017 Solidarity Now and 14 more NGOs urge the Greek Government to immediately reverse the recent policy excluding asylum-seekers on the Greek islands who appeal negative asylum decisions from the possibility of participating later on in the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme and forcing those […]
