Self-Advocacy Greece is a group of experts that includes with refugees, migrants as well as Greeks, working on proposing and implementing ideas for social and political inclusion for refugees and migrants in the Greek society.
Greece has faced migration issues for more than 20 years. Thousands of refugees and migrants are living in Greece with the hope of building a better future. The latter implies living and working for their future and their families sustainability, therefore possessing the rights and obligations to perform as ordinary citizens and contribute to society. The approach used so far for handling refugee issues was based on an authoritarian model where refugees and migrants don’t contribute to decision making. Experience shows that these models are failing since they don’t take into account cultural elements and past experiences. Promoting a strong democracy in a fair society complies with the fact of using refugee and migrant ideas and solutions aiming at implementing a functional system which gratifies everyone’s fulfilment.
The Self-Advocacy Greece mission revolves around:
- Encouraging collaboration between refugees, migrants and locals.
- Advocate for refugees and migrants rights to decisions makers. Connecting our various SATs with Migrant and Refugee Integration Councils of various Greek municipalities.
- Promoting refugee and migrant access to higher educational platforms in accordance to their capacity.
- Facilitating discussions between refugees, migrants, policymakers and other stakeholders aiming at reducing the the gap between them, encouraging a better understanding of issues and deletion of misconceptions from both parts.
- Cooperation with several relevant actors that work on a more inclusive Greek and European society.
- Implementing projects regarding community empowerment and encouragement in addressing common issues they face in the Greek society.