June 15, 2022
Social, Society
A 14-year-old boy is being hospitalized in serious condition after a fire broke out at the refugee facility of Elaionas in Athens early on Wednesday. According to the Health Ministry, the minor is suffering from burns and respiratory problems and has been intubated at the Aghia Sophia Children Hospital. …
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March 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Saidu Kamara from Guinea, arrived on the island of Kalymnos in 2019,. He survived a shipwreck as unaccompanied teenager. Today he is 18 years old and fully integrated in the Greek society. Saidu is an excellent student and he will be honored to carry the Greek flag at the parade …
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November 24, 2021
Politics, Refugees
Unaccompanied refugee minors aged 0-12 years will be included in Greece’s adoption and fostering system under a memorandum of collaboration signed between Deputy Minister of Labor & Social Issues Domna Michailidou and UNHCR-Greece representative Maria Clara Martin, the ministry announced on Tuesday. This collaboration will help meet the special needs …
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September 17, 2021
Uncategorized
“We need to think outside the box…because you learn more things outside the box. It’s like a cage, you need to be a free bird” says Arezu, an incredibly talented and eloquent Afghan refugee of just 12-years-old, currently living on Lesvos island in Greece. This week is the return to …
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March 27, 2021
Refugees
Refugees in the camp in Corinth, northern Peloponnese staged widespread protests on Saturday, following the suicide of a Kurdish asylum seeker. Protesters set up mattresses and other flammable material on fire and threw stones and other items at the fire fighters and police officers who rushed to the camp, local …
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February 24, 2021
Refugees
A 6-year-old boy died on Tuesday night when a fire broke out in a refugee camp on the town on Thiva, some 60 km north of Athens. . The boy was reportedly leaving with his parents and 4 siblings in a container. Local media reported that the mother reportedly managed …
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December 27, 2020
FEATURED, Refugees
Armed with sticks, knives and iron bars and shouting racist slogans a group of people attacked the accommodation center for unaccompanied refugee children in Oraiokastro, northern Greece, late on Saturday night. Four minors were injured and transferred to hospital. The structure hosts unaccompanied children aged 12-15 and is run by …
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July 9, 2020
Refugees
Forty-nine unaccompanied refugee minors have left Greece for Finland and Portugal in the last two days. The two groups left in the framework of the relocation of a total of 1,600 unaccompanied minors to other european countries. 24 unaccompanied refugee minors departed Athens fro relocation to Finland on Wednesday. The …
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April 18, 2020
Politics, Refugees
50 unaccompanied refugee children left Athens international airport for a new life in Germany on Saturday morning. The minors aged 5-16 had arrived in Athens a few days ago from the overcrowded hotspots on the Greek islands, the Reception and Identification Centers of Lesvos, Chios and Samos. An special flight …
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March 31, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A refugee woman living in an accommodation camp in Attica has been tested positive on COVID-19. The asymptomatic woman was pregnant and went to a hospital in Athens for a scheduled birth with a Caesarian section last Thursday. Her baby has been also tested, the results are pending. According to …
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March 16, 2020
Refugees
A 6-year-old child has died in a fire that broke out in the overcrowded hotspot of Moria on the island of Lesvos. The fire broke out at Monday noon. Reasons are, so far, unknown. According to state broadcaster ERT TV, firefighters found the body of the girl inside a container. …
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February 23, 2020
Social
A policeman serving on the island of Chios has helped a refugee woman from Syria to give birth to a healthy baby girl on Friday evening. The young officer had neither relevant training nor idea about a child birth but he was ‘armed’ with the right instinct and composure. The …
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February 17, 2020
Very Mix
A forensic examiner confirmed the suspected horror: the 11-month-old refugee baby girl from Syria that died on Sunday was sexually abused. A conducted autopsy could not determine the causes of the baby’s death so far. Results of toxicological tests are awaited. “It is clear that there has been abuse and …
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February 16, 2020
Social
Police in Athens investigates the death of an 11-month-old refugee baby from Syria. Preliminary forensic findings are shocking: the body of the baby girl had marks of sexual abuse, police said in a statement. However, the initial scenario of the baby abuse may change due to new findings in connection …
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January 23, 2020
Refugees
The Greek government is deliberately depriving at least 140 children with chronic, complex and life-threatening diseases of adequate medical care, humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stated on Thursday. The MSF is calling on the Greek government evacuate all severely ill children to the Greek mainland or other EU member …
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December 5, 2019
Refugees
A 27-year-old Afghan refugee died in a fire Kara Tepe camp on the island of Lesvos early Thursday morning. The fire broke out inside the container where the woman lived with her 28-year-old husband and their three children aged 5, 2 and an infant. The 28-year-old husband passed out from …
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October 6, 2019
Refugees
A refugee toddler was found to have drowned in the sea outside the refugee camp at LM Village in Myrisini of the municipality Andravida-Kyllini on Sunday. Sharma, the child of a Syrian refugee family, was 2.5 years old. The body of the child was found to be floating in the …
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September 4, 2019
Greece
Theodoros Giannaros, member of ruling conservative New Democracy party and the party’s working group for Health launched a vicious racist attack on a refugee, describing him as a “monkey”. Arash Hampay, a refugee from Iran living in Greece, posted a photo on twitter and wrote: “Fascists, I’m OK with my …
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May 10, 2019
Refugees
Pope Francis sent a cardinal to the refugee camp in Moria on the island of Lesvos on Thursday. The Vatican delegation was led by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. According to catholic news service, the May 9 visit to the “unofficial” Moira camp, where more than 1,000 people live outside a government-established …
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May 1, 2019
Refugees
A 2-year-old refugee child has been missing from Omonia square in downtown Athens since Tuesday night, April 30, 2019. At the time of his disappearance, Shaaban Hayani was wearing a grey jacket with orange hood, black pants and he was barefoot. The child from Syria is 0.80m tall and weights …
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