Marking World Refugee Day 2018 in Greece

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With a variety of community-based and cultural events UNHCR offices in Greece marked World Refugee Day 2018 in solidarity #WithRefugees and together with partners, the authorities and local communities. Athens joined 13 cities around the world for the second successful edition of the Refugee Food Festival in Greece, which attracted hundreds of visitors and significant public attention from 19 to 24 June 2018. A special Refugee Food Festival event on Lesvos welcomed several islanders and visitors at Nan restaurant in Mytilene on 20 June. With a lively and colourful cultural event refugee communities and partners marked the day in Athens, while in Ioannina, hundreds of refugees residing in western Greece joined with tens of civil society partners and the local authorities in a series of engaging activities based on arts, sports, music and cooking. Events on Aegean islands included, among others, a football match between asylum seekers and locals on Kos, participatory activities for children and artistic exhibitions at the non-formal education centers of Leros and Kos, an event on trafficking in Rhodes, a discussion on Chios’ history of welcoming refugees following a visit of unaccompanied minors to Chios Mastic Museum and a children’s choir and musical performance of a well-known composer on Samos island.

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Published to Youtube on: 26/06/2018

Archived on: 08/10/2025

Original URL (may no longer be available): https://youtube.com/watch?v=GG2tlXtElDU