The “Together for Children” Association” and the Network of Migrant Women “Melissa”, with the support of the Migrant Integration Council of Athens, implement the project “A backpack for the Road” for refugee children. The basic idea of action arose from the need of basic products which are necessary for the journey of children and refugee […]
“Europe’s borders are outside the area”, highlighted the Rapporteur of the Migration Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Andrea Rigoni, from Lesbos. Indeed, Europe’s borders perhaps stop right there, as the promised European solidarity was never manifested, while the number published by the UNHCR is staggering: More than half a million […]
The theater Poreia will host an additional performance of the play “The Great Chimera” on Saturday, November 7th at 5.00pm All proceeds will support the program of “SolidarityNow” for refugee children Athens, 29 October 2015. Children are always war’s greatest victims. And in this refugee crisis, they haven’t been an exception. It is estimated that […]
After the first step which regards the emergency programs and that is being implemented by SolidarityNow under the “six-point response”, we now move on to the second step by designing new, medium-term actions, thereby enhancing solidarity in practice. At SolidarityNow, we are true to our humanitarian work and our main purpose to support the populations […]
Athens, October 19, 2015. Considering the urgent needs of refugees as winter is approaching, “SolidarityNow” proceeded with the decision to support the implementation of new, major programs and structures, with an additional funding of 2 million euros. The selection of projects and organizations was based on the “six points response” concept which SolidarityNow implements in […]
The young men leaving Syria escape conscription. If humanitarian assistance to countries neighboring Syria and Iraq increased, flows of refugees will stop … “Five myths about refugees” is the title of an article from the “EFSYN” newspaper by Fotini Rantsiou, coordinator of the actions of #SolidarityNow Lesvos. The article is available only in Greek if you […]
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September 15, 2015. Together with our team we have visited all the islands affected by the migration and refugee crisis within the last months including Lesbos, Kos, Rhodes, Tilos, Samos and Leros. Due to the situation, I had the chance to visit Lesvos just a couple of days ago as it is the transit point for the […]
