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\u201cThe people are with us. I want to stay here in Tilos\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Maysoon already has friends at the restaurant, and she\u2019s gradually learning Greek. \u201cI know some words that are relevant to my work, like fridge, potato, traditional Greek salad, moussaka, water, milk, yoghurt. Once a week, after work, I go to the structure\u2019s school to learn Greek.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Maysoon\u2019s husband isn\u2019t employed, but he attends the language classes, meanwhile taking care of the children and learning how to get accustomed to the changes. \u201cIn the beginning, it was very hard for him. In Syria, women don\u2019t work; they stay at home and take care of the kids. Now, however, his views are also slowly starting to change.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n We talk about the inhabitants of the island, and how they welcomed Maysoon and her family, how they integrated them within their community. \u201cThe people are with us<\/em><\/strong>. Generally, all the locals are good to me. I want to stay in Tilos. I wish I can buy a house and stay here forever. I hope that my kids will be able to go to school here, and we can all lead regular lives. I didn\u2019t only come here because I am a refugee, I came here because I want to be like the Greeks<\/strong><\/em>!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maysoon Alderi<\/strong> is a beneficiary of the Hosting Scheme project of SolidarityNow, and she lives at the structure on the island of Tilos.<\/em><\/p>\n #ESTIA, the Emergency Support to Integration and Accommodation programme, is implemented by SolidarityNow, supported by UNHCR and funded by ECHO.<\/em><\/p>\n Tilos \u2013 Community & Integration pilot project<\/strong><\/p>\n The Refugee Accommodation shelter was created in 2015 by SolidarityNow, in collaboration with the Municipality of Tilos and stood out as an example of a local project through which the local community welcomed the refugees, supporting the smooth integration of those who would remain on the island. The operation of the shelter concerns the provision of accommodation to 50 beneficiaries and has hosted 100 people so far. Watch the BBC tribute to the Tilos program: <\/em>https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-europe-40586229\/the-greek-island-where-syrian-refugees-are-welcome<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe people are with us. I want to stay here in Tilos\u201d \u201cMy name is Maysoon Alderi, I\u2019m from Syria and I\u2019m 32 years old. I\u2019ve been at SolidarityNow\u2019s Tilos structure since early September with my husband and five children. In June, I began working at Nikos\u2019 restaurant. I really like working, because I wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","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\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cMy name is Maysoon Alderi, I\u2019m from Syria and I\u2019m 32 years old. I\u2019ve been at SolidarityNow\u2019s Tilos structure since early September with my husband and five children. In June, I began working at Nikos\u2019 restaurant. I really like working, because I wasn\u2019t able to in my homeland, I was at home with the kids. It\u2019s tiring to work and raise children at the same time, but now all I want to do is leave the structure and meet people, learn to speak Greek, and see what life is like in Greece.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
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