Eurolife FFH supports the implementation of “MAMA – Supporting new and mothers-to-be” program, by SolidarityNow. MAMA aims to support and empower new mothers and mothers-to-be as well as their partners from vulnerable social groups, in matters related to parenthood, nutrition and childcare, and will be implemented in Thessaloniki throughout 2023.
The article is only available in Greek.
A group of teachers and student-refugees from Ukraine, from the SolidarityNow “Integration Learning Center” in Thessaloniki, which operates within the framework of the HELIOS integration program, learned Greek and sang carols to the Deputy Minister of the Interior, at the Directorate of the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace.
The article is only available in Greek.
Journalist Maria Kouzinopoulou, from the Athens & Macedonian News Agency, writes for the guide “A guide to tomorrow”, the publication that gathers information on the education and labour integration of unaccompanied refugees in Greece. The guide was edited by the Unaccompanied Minors Integration and Support Unit of the Special Secretariat for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors of the Ministry of Migration & Asylum and the UNICEF office in Greece in collaboration with representatives of six non-governmental organizations (SolidarityNow, Arsis, DRC, Elix, Junior Achievement Greece, Metadrasi) and with the contribution of the independent Coordination and Monitoring Department of Refugee Education of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and the Public Employment Service. The publication was co-financed by the European Union.
Mary Asvesta, Coordinator of SolidarityNow’s Employment Service and employment consultant, spoke about the guide and SolidarityNow’s contribution to its writing.
The article is only available in Greek.
“Each person registered to HELIOS Project and take lessons at the Integration Learning Center (ILC) of SolidarityNow in Athens is provided with holistic support”, Dimitra Koutsoumba, ILC Coordinator, pointed out.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Greece organized the visit of the journalist Maria Kouzinopoulou to the SolidarityNow Integration Learning Center, focusing on the support provided there to refugees from Ukraine.
Olena and Sofia from Ukraine narrated their story from the moment the war broke out until they joined, HELIOS and started their new life in Athens.
The article in Greek: https://www.amna.gr/eu/article/689470/4215-Oukranoi-prosfuges-echoun-eggrafei-sto-entaxiako-programma-Helios
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*SolidarityNow is a key implementing partner of the International Organization for Migration (IOM Greece), in the framework of the HELIOS project which is funded by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum.
The journalist Maria Kouzinopoulou interviewed Mustafa and Benji who lived in Greece as unaccompanied minors and now they have to face life all by themselves without the previous provided supportive network because they are turning 18. Mustafa and Benji are two out of the six protagonists of the short movie titled “I Woke Up 18” directed by Vera-Iona Papadopoulou and produced by SolidarityNow.
Six children. Six unaccompanied children. One word, one world of difference. Six people talk about life in the new country, Greece, a life that changes abruptly turning incredibly difficult at 18. Dreams, disillusionment, fear and hope of six young people.
The short movie will be presented for the first time on Friday, September 30th, 2022, during the Athens International Film Festival.
You can read more here. (in Greek)
The Athens-Macedonian News Agency publishes the press release-invitation by SolidarityNow for the exhibition of refugees’ artworks organized by the organization at the Refugees Museum of Thessaloniki in the context of the World Refugee Day (June 20th) and the Refugee Week (20-26/6/2022).
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Macedonia newspaper hosts the article regarding the completion of the “Step-by-Step” program, which was implemented from September 2020 to March 2022.
The program (MIS:5063334) was funded within the framework of the National Program of the Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund and the European Union and implemented with the support of the Special Secretariat for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors.
Read the article here (in Greek).
