Article about the children of the Refugee Accommodation Centre in Ritsona who do not have access to education due to the lack of coaches. Combined with the pandemic, and despite the efforts of the Refugee Education Coordinators, this has resulted in refugee children being out of school for years. […]
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The painting exhibition ‘The Ritsona’s Children’ was organized by the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in collaboration with the artists Efi Mouriki and Vladimir Kiriakidis, from 3 to 11 October 2022. The exhibition presented the paintings of teenage girls from the Refugee Accommodation Centre of Ritsona, who through art express their pains, fears and hopes. […]
The author, a girl from Afghanistan who lives in the Ritsona camp, writes about the refugee, living in (another) refugee camp – and even in the time of a pandemic. She gives voice to the migrant, the immigrant, the abused, the oppressed, the imprisoned, the exiled and other heroes, through stories of refugees in the […]
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