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 […]

As refugees continue to be driven out of Syria, a legal crisis is taking shape throughout the region that parallels the humanitarian one. Refugees leaving Syria face a bureaucratic nightmare that isn’t always readily apparent. For instance, when they depart their home countries, many leave behind their IDs, passports, and marriage and birth certificates. Then, […]

MYTILENE, 3 November 2015 (IRIN) – Currently on leave from the UN emergency aid coordination body OCHA, Greek humanitarian worker Fotini Rantsiou has spent the last three months as a volunteer on the island of Lesvos. As the death toll mounts in the Eastern Mediterranean, with stormy seas claiming the lives of at least 70 refugees in the last […]

Group Exhibition Art2Give by the Blender Gallery and the KINARI Design  to support children-migrants with the help of the «αλληλεγγύη – SolidarityNow» Athens , 10 November 2015. The Blender Gallery in collaboration with KINARI Design and ETHOS Art will inaugurate on Thursday, November 19, 2015 the exhibition “Art2Give” during which works by contemporary American painters will be […]

The “Together for Children” Association” and the Network of Migrant Women “Melissa”, with the support of the Migrant Integration Council of Athens, implement the project “A backpack for the Road” for refugee children. The basic idea of ​​action arose from the need of basic products which are necessary for the journey of children and refugee […]

“Europe’s borders are outside the area”, highlighted the Rapporteur of the Migration Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Andrea Rigoni, from Lesbos. Indeed, Europe’s borders perhaps stop right there, as the promised European solidarity was never manifested, while the number published by the UNHCR is staggering: More than half a million […]