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 that are anything but satisfactory.

SolidarityNow has already stressed out that social inclusion and integration should now be the priority, i.e. the primary access of these people to the fundamental goods of health, education, labor, etc. Only by this way we will be able to ensure the already wounded social cohesion.

Specifically, SolidarityNow requests:

1. Direct plan for the evacuation and #close_the_camps and transference of the people to urban areas to become feasible the implementation of the integration policies.
2. Unrestricted access for all, whether they are in the islands or in mainland, to the asylum process, while respecting all the procedural assurances deriving from national, community and international law.
3. Access to the labor market for all asylum seekers (and the pre-registered ones).
4. The registration of all children in the national education system to ensure their smooth socialization in the country.
5. The unhindered access for all to the health system without discrimination
6. Immediate activation of Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund to support the respective actions, focusing on the housing allowance for persons who are granted the refugee status and are therefore not eligible for asylum accommodation.

The refugees will live with us. The sooner we respond to this fact with integration policies, the better we will protect ourselves, the local communities and the cohesion of the Greek society.