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2019 Milestones
from ANNUAL REPORT 2019
Milestones 2019
What events made the difference during 2019?
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© Irini Spanopoulou for SolidarityNow
This was the key message of the SolidarityNow awareness campaign launched nationwide in November and in collaboration with Soho Square, to inform and raise public awareness of the organisation’s diverse actions on the side of the most vulnerable people and of its role in enhancing and empowering their integration without being visible. Thus, “we can’t see them”. The campaign’s protagonists were SolidarityNow’s beneficiaries, as well as employees of the organisation that supported its creation.
Targeting to get the message across, SolidarityNow’s awareness campaign used various communication tools, such as:
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TV spot (aired pro bono as social message by the TV channels) Special tribute to the SolidarityNow website Print and digital ads Online campaign in the organisation’s social media pages and accounts Thematic tribute in the organisation’s e-newsletter Targeted articles in the Press Human stories, with ‘heroes’ the people empowered and supported by the organisation’s programs; published on the website, social media and the Press.
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© Alexandros Avramidis for SolidarityNow
SolidarityNow’s 1st Job Fair took place in Thessaloniki and was a great success. Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, agencies, organisations, and private companies of the city gathered for the first time, sat at the same table, and discussed labor issues. Businesses and various organisations presented their activities and were informed about how they can approach and work with refugees and migrants looking for a job in Greece.
The 1st Job Fair for refugees and migrants in Athens
One more Job Fair dedicated to refugees and migrants took place, this time in Athens! The 1st Athens Job Fair was organized by the Employability Service of SolidarityNow, together with the corresponding Services of eight other organisations, which make up the “Livelihoods” Committee of the Municipality of Athens. 19 companies from different industries such as construction, shipping, and the hotel sectors, participated. The attendance of the people was impressive and moving, and the representatives of the companies had a lot of interviews with candidates.
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© Mohammad Hashemi for SolidarityNow
Capturing the harmonious coexistence
SolidarityNow in collaboration with the Fredric Roberts Photography Foundation organized a photography workshop on “Social and Cultural Integration“, for children aged 14-16, from 15 to 22 June 2019, in Athens. The workshop included lectures and practice of photography at selected locations in the centre of Athens, while it ended with an exhibition of photographs of the participants. Twenty children, ten boys and ten girls, both from urban centres and the countryside, originally from Greece and other countries (second-generation immigrants and refugees), lived an exciting experience. What makes this program unique is that after completing the course, the Foundation left four professional cameras to its partner, in this case SolidarityNow, so that the children could borrow them to continue photographing. Instructors of the Foundation will return to our country after two years to deliver advanced photography lessons to the same group of children.
