{"id":5945,"date":"2018-09-25T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:45:25","slug":"nailedit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/nailedit\/","title":{"rendered":"[:el]#NailedIt[:en]#NailedIt [:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glossy and matte polish nail, shine, oval or square shaped nails, French or simple manicure and many other techniques. Who does not like to take care of his\/her nails? Manicure-pedicure has not only to do with beauty and grooming; above all, it involves our health, and besides, it is an art that is taught and <strong>can also become a means of livelihood, as it is one of the most modern and lucrative professions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in SolidarityNow\u2019s philosophy and priority to encourage our beneficiaries to develop life skills. At their request, we designed a manicure-pedicure training course. Through our Educational Program we decided to offer them the opportunity to attend a free of charge, 60 hours, manicure-pedicure training course at the \u201cInstitute of Professional Development\u201d, a vocational training center in Thessaloniki. 15 migrants and refugees (14 women and 1 man) have attended theoretical and practical classes. They have learned aesthetic treatments and other techniques for the toe and finger nails. They have been granted with a diploma that gives them the opportunity to pursue a job as professional nail technicians &#8211; artists.<\/p>\n<p>Sana and Amber from Pakistan and Ibrahim from Syria are 3 of the 15 refugees and migrants who attended the training course; along with their teacher Konstantina, they talk about their experience and professional dreams.<\/p>\n<p>At SolidarityNow we support and help migrants, refugees and unemployed Greeks to find a job and get linked with the labor market.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>* The Blue Refugee Center is supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF and funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>** The SolidarityNow Education Program is implemented with the support of UNICEF and the European Union Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO).<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glossy and matte polish nail, shine, oval or square shaped nails, French or simple manicure and many other techniques. Who does not like to take care of his\/her nails? Manicure-pedicure has not only to do with beauty and grooming; above all, it involves our health, and besides, it is an art that is taught and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-human-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","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=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}