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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Universal deprivation of the right of access to public education for refugee children residing in the Accommodation Facility of Ritsona from the beginning of the pandemic (March 2020) until the end of the school year 2020-2021. One hundred children from the facility continue to be denied the right to access due to lack of transportation. […]
The Refugee Education Coordinator of Ritsona, Pepi Papadimitriou, holds the Municipality of Chalkida responsible for the issue of the education of the children of the camp. The letter highlights the responsibility and actions of the Mayor that have resulted in the exclusion of refugee children from school. […]
The film is the result of the film animation workshop for the inclusion of refugee and migrant children, which took place at the Refugee and Migrant Facility of Ritsona, in 2022 and was attended by Atena Rezaee, Parwaneh Najafi, Zaynab Najafi, Zahra Heydari, Sezara Jaffari, Fatema Wafai. […]
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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Parvana Amiri is a refugee from Afghanistan, imprisoned in the Moria camp and now in Ritsona. She wrote the book “My pen does not break the borders, it is the borders that will be broken… Letters to the world from Moria”. Stories of refugees living the harsh reality of refugee camps, searching for reasons to […]
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Pepi Papadimitriou – Educator, Coordinator of Refugee Education […]
Mohamed Lamine – Born in Guinea and lives in Greece […]