On Friday, 23/11/2023, we met with the Minister of Migration and Asylum, Mr. Dimitris Kairidis. We thank him for his availability and time. This meeting served as an initial introduction with the members of the […]
One of the fundamental goals of the Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) is the substantial and active participation of refugees and migrants in the host society. We strongly believe in an inclusive society based on […]
Yesterday and the day before, the third distribution of the ‘Food For All’ program took place in collaboration with Intersos Hellas. Once again, more than 100 families received food. New beneficiaries were added to the […]
In the previous two days, the 2nd distribution of the Food for All program took place, in collaboration with Intersos Hellas. This time, over 100 families visited us and took part in the program, receiving […]
With great joy, last week, the distribution of food through the “Food For All” program began in collaboration with Intersos Hellas. The distribution lasted 2 days and over 100 families were recorded and participated in the […]
In 2000, the vice-president of the Greek Forum of Refugees and president of the Ivorian Community of Greece (Communauté ivoirienne de la Grèce) had the honor of being awarded the Civic Pride award, which is […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees in collaboration with INTERSOS HELLAS is starting the implementation of the FOOD FOR ALL program, which is supported by Stichting Vluchteling – SV (https://www.intersos.gr/). The program aims to help as […]
On the occasion of the tragic crime that took place in Pylos with hundreds of refugees as its victims, the Union of Salaried Lawyers organized a solidarity fight, which was happily supported by the Greek […]
On World Refugee Day, the Greek Forum of Refugees and its community members organized an event aiming to highlight and raise awareness regarding the ongoing challenges and difficulties faced by refugees and asylum seekers in […]
Erasmus Plus KA2 – Youth Partners (links): You can also view the Project Website HERE Duration 1st Feb 2021- 30th August 2023 About the Project To date, more than 79.5 million people across the world have […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees is a founding member of the campaign for asylum access, which advocates for the right of asylum seekers to have access to a fair and effective asylum system. Athens, 16 […]
With the occasion of World Refugee Day on June 20th: Come and engage in discussions with refugees from the camps and their communities, sharing the challenges they face in their daily lives. Let us sit […]
There are hundreds of “invisible” individuals around us that are unsupported and suffer with food insecurities. With this post we want to bring light to this issue and call out each and everyone one of […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees, as a refugee – led association, firmly supports every initiative that aims to foster participation of refugees and migrants in the public sphere. In that sense, we partnered with other […]
Exciting news! The Greek Forum of Refugees is collaborating with Professor Anastasios Maragiannis from the University of Greenwich to continue his awarded research on Diversity + inclusivity by design. This time, they are focusing on […]
Greek Forum of Refugees is happy to announce that our Self-Advocacy Team, is getting actively engaged in our AMIF project DEPART, with the cooperation of the Piraeus Open School of Immigrants, has concluded the capacity-building workshops […]
On the 20th and 21st of January 2023, the Greek Forum of Refugees and the organizations partners of the project DEPART materialized the transnational partners meeting in the cities of Barcelona and Girona respectively. This […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) as a Self-Advocacy grassroots organization founded by refugees, with refugees for refugees. Based on the idea of Self-Advocacy, Greek Forum of Refugees created a Self-Advocacy Team out of the […]
GFR is a refugee-led organization based in Greece, consisting of refugee/migrant communities, professionals and individuals. Its ultimate goal is the effective inclusion and integration of refugees/immigrants and asylum seekers in the host society. GFR is […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees, known by its acronym GFR, hosted on the 13th of January the first G100 Conference ‘New Voices for Europe’ in Athens. The GFR, a refugee-led organization founded in 2012, has […]
What is the Greek Forum of Refugees? How and why did it start? What is its mission and what ideas does it serve? Royeen Muhammadi, Volunteer and member of the Greek Forum of Refugees’ youths […]
As you think of one last act of solidarity at the end of the year, we invite you to consider to make your End-of-Year Giving by contributing to the preparation of prescriptions, or food boxes […]
The shipwrecks in Kythira and Lesvos have come to remind us of the harsh reality faced by a person who is forced to flee his homeland. How many dead, how many missing, how many fellow […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees along with civil society organisations across Europe co – signs a text expressing its great opposition to the European Commission’s proposal regarding the creation of a regulation addressing instrumentalisation in […]
Good news for the English-speaking, French-speaking and Arabic-speaking population in Greece! The Cooperative Bank of Karditsa in collaboration with the Share Sira project “Strengthening and Expanding Social Orientation & Integration for Newcomers in Rural Areas”, […]
On Monday, 11th of July at Serafeio City of Athens Conference Center, the Greek Forum of Refugees along with the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and the Afghan Community of Migrants and Refugees […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees had both the pleasure an the honor to be present in the City of Thessaloniki (23 – 24 June) where it held a series of informative sessions with the city’s […]
On Tuesday, 5 July the Hellenic Parliament welcomed former members of the Afghan Parliament and members of the judiciary who found themselves in Greece and Europe as refugees and asylum seekers, one year after the […]
On Wednesday, 15th of June, the Greek Forum of Refugees inaugurated the start of the Integration Council for Migrants and Refugees together with the Municipality of Karditsa, a few days before the World Refugee Day […]
From the first day of the war in Ukraine (February 24) and having the experience of Afghanistan and Syria, we decided to support the Ukrainian communities, formal and non-formal, in order to help create a […]
Central photo: Marcus Yam – Los Angeles Times / Getty Images August 23, 2021 A year after the dramatic events that followed the western forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the violent seizure of power by […]
Dear friends, We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the 3 – year Horizon 2020 European project SO – CLOSE, Enhancing social cohesion through sharing the cultural heritage of forced migration, on […]
On Tuesday, 17th of May, the Greek Forum of Refugees’ Football Team and Police Action for Human Rights met again, after their first meeting for the World Human Rights Day (10th of December), in the […]
Honoring the 17th of May, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the Greek Forum of Refugees and the Police Action for Human Rights organize together a friendly football match between refugees and policemen. This […]
The Europe Bottom – Up Migration Working Group, the Greek Forum of Refugees, the Network for Dialogue and the Department of Public Health Policy at the University of West Attica have the pleasure of inviting […]
On Wednesday, 20th of April 2022 the Greek Forum of Refugees held an informative session in the premises of the Congolese community in Athens regarding refugees’ representation through the Integration Councils for Refugees and Migrants. […]
Friday, March 4th 2022 An informative meeting was held at the premises of the Greek Forum of Refugees between the Coordination Committee of the Ukrainian Communities in Greece and the General Secretary of Social Solidarity […]
Dear friends, The current developments in Ukraine force us to postpone our public discussion on “Asylum challenges: The recognition of Turkey as a safe third country” (https://www.facebook.com/events/526821535402685?ref=newsfeed). We focus all of our attention to the […]
Associated Press Photo/Andrea Alexandru The Greek Forum of Refugees opens its premises and its heart to the Coordination Committee of the Ukrainian Communities in Greece in order to organise, cordinate and support the initiatives of […]
Dear friends, The Greek Forum of Refugees invites you all to the public panel discussion regarding “Asylum Challenges: The recognition of Turkey as a safe third country”. The public discussion will take place in Serafio, […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees joined Afghan Diaspora Organizations across the World on a common statement regarding recommendations addressed to the EU Institutions for a proper response to Afghanistan’s multiple crisis. We, the signatories, emphasize […]
When our friends have the opportunity to make their wish come true, then in the Greek Forum of Refugees we are all happy. When, in fact, they are awarded for the result, we are thrilled… […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees organized four (4) informative sessions within January, in the context of the continuation of the “Vaccines for All” campaign to raise awareness in the refugee and migrant communities regarding the […]
Not an integration plan, rather an exclusion one The refugees’ and migrants’ inclusion to the Greek and the European society remains a firm position of our association. The Greek Forum of Refugees, an association of […]
GFR F.C. vs Aetos of Northern Epirus (2-1) On Sunday, November 21 at the RENTI STAR sports’ facilities and in the context of the 5th match of the Greek Forum of Refugees’ football team for […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees co – signs a joint press release with 27 civil society organizations, once again calling on the Greek government to urgently comply with its national, European and international obligations. On […]
On Thursday and Friday, 16 & 17 December, the Greek Forum of Refugees held two informative and raising awareness sessions on the vaccination process against COVID19 with Arab – speaking asylum seekers and refugees. The […]
On Sunday, 12 December the Greek Forum of Refugees was hosted by the Achmadiyya Muslim community in the context of an informative meeting regarding the vaccination process against COVID19. The session had a hybrid form […]
On Thursday, December 2, at our home ground in Alepotripa, Kypseli, we had the pleasure and the honor to host the President of the Hellenic Pulmonologists Association and pulmonologist at the reference hospital for covid19 […]
On Friday, 5 November, at the Greek Forum of Refugees’ offices we had the pleasure to host a very interesting workshop within the context of the “Young Entrepreneurs Succeed” project that is implemented by the […]
Pagritios Kallitheas Vs GFR F.C. (5 – 8) On Sunday, 14 November, at the Municipal Sports and Recreation Park of Kallithea, in the context of the 4th match of our football team for the Elite […]
Dear friends, We would like to inform you all that the Greek Forum of Refugees keeps its premises open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10:00 am – 13:00 pm for all those who wish to […]
GFR F.C. vs Dynamo Smyrnis (4-0) On Sunday, November 7, at the facilities of “Fous de Fout” in Vari, the football team of the Greek Forum of Refugees faced Dynamo Smyrnis in the context of […]
On Saturday, November 6, at the offices of the Congolese community in Greece, the Greek Forum of Refugees co-organized with the community an informative session on the vaccination against COVID19. The meeting was attended by […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees along with the New Europeans, a non-profit association, organized on the 30th of September 2021 the initiative titled “Assemblies of Solidarity” which is a citizen-led project coordinated by “Citizens Take […]
On Saturday, October 30, at the Afghan M & R Community in Greece (https://www.facebook.com/afg.mr.greece) offices, the Greek Forum of Refugees co – organized with the community an informative session on COVID19 vaccination process with the […]
On Saturday, November 6 at 15:00 the Greek Forum of Refugees along with the Congolese community in Greece jointly organize an information session on the vaccination against covid19. The briefing will be attended by the […]
JOINT OPEN LETTER To: THE GREEK PRIME MINISTER, MR. KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS MINISTER OF MIGRATION AND ASYLUM, MR. NOTIS MITARAKIS PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, MS. URSULA VON DER LEYEN EU COMMISSIONER FOR HOME AFFAIRS, MS. […]
The Greek Forum of Refugees’ Football Team, simply the GFR F.C. , coupled its victories, last Sunday, 24th of October playing in Aris Voulas’ home in the context of the 2nd match for the Elite […]
On Saturday, 30 October at 12:00 pm, the Greek Forum of Refugees and the Afghan Community of Migrants and Refugees organize an informative session on the vaccination against covid19. The event will take place in […]
On Sunday, 17 October at the “Fous de Foot” stadium in the facilities of Vari and in the context of its first match for the Elite II of the championship http://anexartito.com/, the Greek Forum of […]