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For me, the International Women\u2019s Day is very confusing because all over the world one day is women’s day. I do not agree at all, all days should be days dedicated to the women.<\/p>\n
Women are very strong. They may not have physical strength, but they have mental strength.<\/p>\n
The only message I have for women on the occasion of March 8th<\/sup> is to never stop fighting for their rights, never stop fighting for equality.<\/strong><\/p>\n I fight too.<\/strong> That is why I seek knowledge. In the HELIOS program, I found support in various topics and gained knowledge. Greek lessons with the SolidarityNow teacher have helped me a lot. I use what I learn to find a job and be independent.<\/p>\n ——-<\/p>\n I am 42 years old, and I live in Greece the last two years. I had a hard time getting to this point but fortunately now I have my own life, I have been able to stand on my own feet and be independent.<\/p>\n The world should celebrate women every day. In my country, the two sexes are not equal and working for example in the same place is a taboo.<\/strong> On the other hand, things are better here, and gender equality is more noticeable. I can speak through my own example. I have a business here in Thessaloniki (hair salon)<\/strong> and both SolidarityNow and the society as a whole were very supportive to me, and I managed to have my own business although being a woman alone in Greece. I am deeply grateful to those who supported me, and I am now as independent as possible.<\/p>\n I managed all the above because when I completed my asylum procedure, I was informed about HELIOS, and I enrolled in the SolidarityNow \u201cIntegration Learning Center\u201d in Thessaloniki. I knew I needed to learn Greek so as to integrate.<\/strong> The program helped me a lot to learn the language but also with the public services and the Greek bureaucracy.<\/p>\n *SolidarityNow is a key implementing partner of the\u00a0International Organization for Migration (IOM Greece)<\/a>, in the framework of the\u00a0HELIOS<\/a>\u00a0project which is funded through the co-financed part of the Public Investment Programme of the\u00a0Ministry of Migration and Asylum<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Women\u2019s Day | March 8th, 2022 My name is Fateme and I am from Iran. For me, the International Women\u2019s Day is very confusing because all over the world one day is women’s day. I do not agree at all, all days should be days dedicated to the women. Women are very strong. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11387,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions\/11387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}My name is Parvin and I am from Iran.<\/strong><\/h3>\n