On the occasion of Human Rights Day, Valia Savvidou, SolidarityNow’s Communications Officer, writes the article “What are all these people becoming?”. “(…) Are we apathetic? Seconds we show a safe compassion and then forget, or is life smarter, in its speed and violence, that we are forced into this behavior? All, probably. Life happens, is […]
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NEWSBEAST | Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers find work in Greek tourism
“The tourism sector is one of the main sectors of the economy where refugees, asylum seekers and migrants find work. This is one of the main conclusions of the research carried out by SolidarityNow, entitled: “The employment experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in the tourism sector”. As Marilyn Polena, SolidarityNow’s General Manager, tells APE-MPE, […]
TYPOSTHES | Thessaloniki: Stereotypes prevent Roma from speaking Romani

The journalist Lemonia Vasvani from the Thessaloniki newspaper TYPOS writes about the Jaf Anglal programme and the educational workshop held by the organisations of the programme – SolidarityNow and AMKE REVMA – in Thessaloniki on the occasion of the 5th of November, World Day of Romani Language. “Explaining the idea for this action, Georgia Kalpazidou, […]
TYPOSTHES | The Iraqi girl who is building her own “myth” with a new restaurant in Thessaloniki

The journalist Lemonia Vasvani from the Thessaloniki newspaper TYPOS writes about her meeting with Shaimaa, the beneficiary of SolidarityNow at the Blue Refugee Center in Thessaloniki, who opened her restaurant in the city center! “Shaimaa managed to make her dream come true by opening her own restaurant in the centre of Thessaloniki with the support […]
A refugee woman from Iraq “feeds” her dream with Arabic cuisine!
The journalist Natasha Karathanou from the Athens-Macedonian News Agency writes about Shaimaa, a beneficiary of the SolidarityNow Blue Refugee Center who is opening her restaurant in the centre of Thessaloniki! “In her first steps Shaimaa was mentored by the Employment Service of the Blue Refugee Centre (BRC) in Thessaloniki. There, through the BRC Livelihoods program […]
TO VIMA | Greece has become their “Ithaca”

The journalist Evi Saltou from “To Vima” writes the stories of three refugees who are making a new start in their lives in their new country, Greece. Among them is Shaimaa, a beneficiary of the Employability Service of SolidarityNow’s Blue Refugee Center in Thessaloniki. Shaimaa is now making her professional dream come true with the […]
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KATHIMERINI | “An Odyssey for the obvious”

Journalist Ioannis Papadopoulos from the newspaper KATHIMERINI writes about a great success of the Legal Service of the Athens Solidarity Center of SolidarityNow in the case of the young Androniki Kiftis. “Androniki Kifti, the daughter of Albanian migrants, was born, grew up and completed her schooling in Greece, but in December 2020 the Decentralized Administration […]