The journalist Alexia Kalaitzi, visited the refugees structure in Volvi along with Eleni Stamatoukou, the organization’s Press & Event Officer in Thessaloniki, and the photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis, and writes about the special group of Yazidis women. These women are beneficiaries of the Blue Dots Unit operating in the camp of Volvi by SolidarityNow; they have managed to keep their traditions and they speak to Mrs. Kalaitzi for them while making bread.
Category: ΕΓΡΑΨΑΝ ΓΙΑ ΕΜΑΣ
ALPHA TV: CHECKPOINT
The Checkpoint show by Gianna Papadakou and Alpha TV gives an insight into the refugee issue as experienced in Greece. Most importantly, it also highlights the most successful cases in the co-existence of refugees, immigrants and the local communities. In this regard, SolidarityNow General Director, Ms. Antigone Lyberraki, our social worker Maria Kokkinou, Nour, beneficiary of the Solidarity Homes program and our interpreter, Syrian refugee Mazd, talk about how such a coexistence can be done in the most ideal way, with the most beneficial results…
Watch this episode, here
TA NEA: Blue Dots: The dots supporting children and mothers
An extended article dedicated to the completion of the innovative Blue Dots program 1st phase (August 2016 – October 2017) by SolidarityNow and its beyond the initial targets, results.
ANTIGONE LYBERAKIS IN KATHIMERINI: From Monica to Zainab: education “counts” on freedom of choice
Article by General Director, Antigonis Lyberakis, published in “Kathimerini” entitled: “From Monica to Zainab: education counts on freedom of choice”
ATHENS VOICE: To find a job, to claim their lives again!
ATHENS VOICE on the employability service provided pro bono to the beneficiaries of the Solidarity Centers in Athens and Thessaloniki. The effectiveness of the service is presented through the success stories of people who found a job as well as of people who were supported enough to enhance their skills so as to get connected to the labour market.
Read the article here
AL JAZEERA: Refugee crisis- Northern Greece struggles to house new arrivals
SolidarityNow in Al Jazeera with the news story about new homeless refugees in Thessaloniki crossing the Evros border. Mrs. Vasiliki Oikonomou, the organization’s lawyer from the Blue Refugee Center in Thessaloniki, talks to the journalist Laurence Lee on the issue.
Iefimerida: There are hundreds of unaccompanied minors and women in tents and containers
Once again, # SolidarityNow is in the Moria camp to assess the inhumane living conditions of people living stranded on the island. SolidarityNow’s spokesperson, Eleni Stamatoukou, Press Officer of the North Greece offices, tells Iasonas Pipinis and Iefimerida “We are watching closely the situation since December. There are families here, but most of the people are men alone, from Congo, Cameroon, Syria and Afghanistan, many of whom have psychological problems, and our request is for these people to be urgently transported from the islands to the mainland. ”
Take a look at the article, here
TA NEA: Solidarity was sweet for the confectioner
Αn extended article at NEA newspaper which focus on SN activities related to education and employability and present them through “success stories” of our beneficiaries that found a job with SN’s support!
Check the article here
realfm: Danger of having more victims in Moria
See the article as published in real.gr
The organization’s Acting General Manager, Mrs. Antigone Lyberaki gave an interview in Real FM regarding the situation in Moria camp for the refugees after witnessed it by herself.
real.gr: Tilos teaches solidarity
Real News (newspaper) & real.gr | A two-page article on the newspaper’s last issue for 2017 dedicated to SolidarityNow and its work results for the previous year. In this tribute, Mr. Stelios Zavvos, Chairman, states that the organization’s beneficiaries have exceeded 325.000 in number (Greeks, refugees and migrants) during its whole operation. The article took its name by one of the organization’s implemented projects -the pilot accommodation project in Tilos- which is described as one, among others, of SolidarityNow operational milestones.