The press release regarding the organisation’s new program entitled “Future Interpreters”. SolidarityNow with the support of the Guerrilla Foundation and in collaboration with the Society for the Care of Minors and the PanHellenic Association of Professional Translators Graduates of the Ionian University, organizes a comprehensive training program for community interpreters and/or intercultural mediator in Athens and Thessaloniki.
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To Vima: The Cash4Solidarity program by SolidarityNow for vulnerable populations
To Vima newspaper (online edition) hosts the press release of the organization regarding the cash transfer project|Cash4Solidarity, which is implemented with the support of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid. This program aims at strengthening, empowering, and enabling the refugees to take back control over their lives, with dignity and self-sufficiency.
Huffington Post: Stranded in Chios
The 51-year-old Adulla, with Syrian origin, has come to Greece along with four out of her eleven children. Her 17-year-old son was killed in Lebanon. Adulla and her children were forced into a constant “hide and seek” to escape from ISIS. They managed to escape from Lebanon and after the murder of the 17-year-old son returned to Syria to be found later in Iraq and today in Chios.
Adulla’s family is one among the 700 refugees currently residing in Souda camp, whereas more than 3,500 refugees have passed from Chios only during the first months of 2017. “We live everyday by the day, by the hours. We don’t have hot water, we sleep on the floor, we are afraid”, Adulla says.
Gazzetta.gr: The World table tennis day was celebrated with 438 events in 92 countries!
The Blue Refugee Center broadens the services provided to the beneficiaries; more precisely, the Iraklis table tennis official team announced the start of cooperation with the Blue Refugee Center in Thessaloniki; the beneficiaries will be able to have free table tennis lessons.
NovaSports.gr: The celebrations in Greece for the World table tennis day
The Blue Refugee Center broadens the services provided to the beneficiaries; more precisely, the Iraklis table tennis official team announced the start of cooperation with the Blue Refugee Center in Thessaloniki; the beneficiaries will be able to have free table tennis lessons.
news247: Marine Le Pen: From ‘lawyer without clients’ on the way to power
Jean Paul Gautier, political scientist and researcher on the extreme right in France, provided an interview at news247.gr, on the occasion of the Open Discussion held by SolidarityNow. In this extensive interview, he talked about the “phenomenon” of Marine Le Pen, the path of growth, the capability to form a coalition government, the differences that separate her from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen.
tvxs: The life of refugees in Souda camp in a 360-degree video
SolidarityNow utilizes the new technology and process in the production of audiovisual material 360o to record and highlight the negative and often inhumane conditions under which the refugees live; the refugees trapped for months in the reception camps of the Greek islands. The organization’s goal is to high-point the existing major problem and underline the urgent need for the camps’ closure and the direct transfer of vulnerable populations in safe structures of the mainland.
The panoramic video (360°) “Stranded in Souda, Chios” of 3’25” duration was produced in collaboration with the award-winning photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis. The video enables viewers to engage to the 51-year-old Adulla everyday life, who was forced to leave her city, Kobanî in Syria, because of the war and is trapped for the past seven months, in Souda camp in Chios, along with her four children. Viewers will become part of the family’s life and the ongoing effort for survival along with their fear for the future.
Watch the video here:
Athens Voice: ‘Trapped in Chios’
SolidarityNow utilizes the new technology and process in the production of audiovisual material 360o to record and highlight the negative and often inhumane conditions under which the refugees live; the refugees trapped for months in the reception camps of the Greek islands. The organization’s goal is to high-point the existing major problem and underline the urgent need for the camps’ closure and the direct transfer of vulnerable populations in safe structures of the mainland.
The panoramic video (360°) “Stranded in Souda, Chios” of 3’25” duration was produced in collaboration with the award-winning photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis. The video enables viewers to engage to the 51-year-old Adulla everyday life, who was forced to leave her city, Kobanî in Syria, because of the war and is trapped for the past seven months, in Souda camp in Chios, along with her four children. Viewers will become part of the family’s life and the ongoing effort for survival along with their fear for the future.
Watch the video here:
Proto Thema: ‘Trapped in Chios’: Video-shock for the refugees living on the islands
SolidarityNow utilizes the new technology and process in the production of audiovisual material 360o to record and highlight the negative and often inhumane conditions under which the refugees live; the refugees trapped for months in the reception camps of the Greek islands. The organization’s goal is to high-point the existing major problem and underline the urgent need for the camps’ closure and the direct transfer of vulnerable populations in safe structures of the mainland.
The panoramic video (360°) “Stranded in Souda, Chios” of 3’25” duration was produced in collaboration with the award-winning photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis. The video enables viewers to engage to the 51-year-old Adulla everyday life, who was forced to leave her city, Kobanî in Syria, because of the war and is trapped for the past seven months, in Souda camp in Chios, along with her four children. Viewers will become part of the family’s life and the ongoing effort for survival along with their fear for the future.
Watch the video here:
Protagon.gr: Struggling for survival in the camp of Chios
SolidarityNow utilizes the new technology and process in the production of audiovisual material 360o to record and highlight the negative and often inhumane conditions under which the refugees live; the refugees trapped for months in the reception camps of the Greek islands. The organization’s goal is to high-point the existing major problem and underline the urgent need for the camps’ closure and the direct transfer of vulnerable populations in safe structures of the mainland.
The panoramic video (360°) “Stranded in Souda, Chios” of 3’25” duration was produced in collaboration with the award-winning photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis. The video enables viewers to engage to the 51-year-old Adulla everyday life, who was forced to leave her city, Kobanî in Syria, because of the war and is trapped for the past seven months, in Souda camp in Chios, along with her four children. Viewers will become part of the family’s life and the ongoing effort for survival along with their fear for the future.
Watch the video here:

