GREEK FORUM OF MIGRANTS

For a second year in a row, the Africacn Network in Greece in collaboration with other organisations, are organizing the African Fest 2018, on Saturday 21 July.

Read below the summer language lessons that are taking place in Athens for refugees and migrants:

How many more lives must be lost? The Greek Forum of Migrants sends a message of memory on the World Refugee Day, 20 June 2018.

Since January 2018, the Greek Forum of Migrants is collaborating, with the Catalan Foundation ACSAR in the framework of UNINTEGRA PROJECT, a project developed and implemented by an European Consortium, operating under a Grant of the AMIF program.

The "Youth engagement hubs - Greece" programme has began with the support of Mercy Corps, with duration 2 months, April - June 2018. Below you can read more information about the programme:

A discussion with the greek Ministry for Migration Policy. 

At the beginning of the year, as the Greek Forum of Migrants, we met with the Deputy Minister of the Greek Ministry of Migration Policy, Mr. G. Balafas on his own initiative. As the Minister himself stated, the purpose of the meeting was to initialize "a continuous and systematic cooperation". 

On the occasion of the fascist attack on our member`s offices, of the Community of Afghan Migrants and Refugees in Greece, the community invites to a gathering on Friday 30/3/2018 at 4 pm outside the offices, Halkokondyli 35. The press release, on the fascist, racist arson attack they received on March 22, 2018, at their offices, as well as an announcement on the immediate needs of the community, follows:

On the occasion of the fascist attack on our member`s offices, of the Community of Afghan Migrants and Refugees in Greece, the community invites to a gathering on Friday 30/3/2018 at 4 pm outside the offices, Halkokondyli 35. The press release, on the fascist, racist arson attack they received on March 22, 2018, at their offices, as well as an announcement on the immediate needs of the community, follows:

The International Day Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, on 21 March, the Greek Forum of Migrants, for a 4th year in a row, is calling for all groups that are currently being discriminated and affected by racism to raise their voices and to declare their determination to fight all kinds of racism and humiliation of human dignity. Representatives from wider groups affected by racism (PWD, LGBT, Roma, migrants, refugees, HIV positive, elderly, drug addicts, mentally ill, religion minorities, etc.) united we will have the Walk Against Discrimination, marching together for a better world.

We invite you, Thursday 15 March, in a Discussion - Conference with central issue of discussion, whether Afghanistan is a safe country. Below are the details of the event and the press release:

Through the videos campaign #VoicetoCommunities that contains the GFM`s members mapping,

In the framework of the GFM`s communities mapping, through the hashtag #VoicetoCommunities,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY 2017

A boat symbolizes a lot. From a journey to the unknown to the hope for new roads and safe horizons. We dedicate today`s International Migrants Day to all migrants and refugees who have been struggling for so many years to sail with the "boat of integration" towards their future.

The African Network of Greece - ANG, with the collaboration of Greek Forum of Migrants has appealed to European Commision offices in Athens and the Italian embassy on Saturday 2 December 2017 in Syntagma sq., in response to the publication of video footage showing slave auctions of African refugees in Libya, to protest and march and shout NO SLAVES again in Africa.   

Abbas from Iraq, Saiyan from Syria and Zoi from Greece, reveal through their stories the exclusion and the lack of integration that migrants and refugees face everyday in Greece of 2017.