homeless

The current crisis in Greece has not only caused financial problems but social ones as well. The number of homeless people has increased and the rates of suicides is rising. Another phenomenon currently on the rise is the abandonment...

The City of Athens, in collaboration with four Greek NGOs, will launch a campaign in order to help the homeless of Athens and enable their social integration. The initiative, described by Athens' mayor Giorgos Kaminis as "a social experiment," is being funded with...

A dormitory for the homeless opened in Thessaloniki, Greece on December 23, 2013. Most of those using the facility are young men who have only been homeless for a few months. “We mainly encounter newly homeless people who used to rent...

A 49 year-old father from Pyrgos, Greece decided to put his kidney up for sale in order to provide for his 8 year-old daughter. The desperate father put an advertisement in a local newspaper saying, "I'm selling my kidney. I made...

More than 40,000 people are now homeless in Greece. It is estimated that nearly 20,000 of them are based in the broader Athens area. Only a handful of the homeless can be accommodated in shelters and as a result...

During the last year, the rate of homeless people in Athens is rising. The number of Greeks that have ended up on the streets, sleeping on benches is dramatically rising due to unemployment. The social services of municipalities do not...

On October 16th, Mayor of Athens Giorgos Kaminis along with the administration of the Reception and Solidarity Centre of the Municipality of Athens, presented the first big social survey concerning the most vulnerable groups of people in Athens, as...

After a journey on the streets and mountains of Attica, the reporters of Euronews found a shocking number of homeless people living in mountain caves due to the prolonged crisis in Greece over the last 5 years. The journalists spoke...

The volunteers of the nonprofit organization “Human People” furnished a six-story building located in the center of Athens, which will host at least 15 homeless families with young children. The repairs in the building, which started last December, are almost...

Despite the winter and the bitter cold in Australia, especially at night,  hundreds of businessmen and managers of large enterprises have decided to leave their luxury homes for a while and sleep on the streets, in sympathy for the...