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Imagine this: you’ve escaped persecution in your own country. You arrive somewhere new and you don’t’ know a soul. You don’t speak the language and you can’t even read the letters of the alphabet.

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17-year-old Bahar dreams of going to England. After spending the majority of his teenage years alone, moving around in search of sanctuary, his hope is to be united with his uncle’s family who’ve lived in the UK for over 20 years. Although he followed all the steps to apply for family reunification with his uncle in the UK, his application was rejected, leaving him stuck in Greece. Bahar’s future is again uncertain.

Ketty works with children who have arrived in Greece alone and sees how their hope and dignity is restored when they are given the right support.

Karima is a woman from Iraq, living alone with her four children in an independent living apartment in Athens, Greece. Read her story.

Multilingual video resources explaining how refugees can find employment in Greece.

Joint submission to the EU Ombudsman by the IRC and I Have Rights illustrating the impacts on the rights and access to legal aid of migrants detained in Closed Controlled Access Centres in Greece.