GreeceLast updated: January 16th, 2024

MAIN MIGRANT POPULATION (2020)

Healthcare rights of migrants

Asylum seekers: Can get free access to primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, but for some advanced services they may have to pay a minimal fee.

Refugees: Can access to medical care under the same terms and conditions as Greek citizens.

Undocumented migrants: Can access emergency care in cases of life-threatening conditions at emergency units. 

HIV testing and treatment

Testing: Free and anonymous for all. Use the European test finder to see where you can get tested for HIV.

Treatment:  Free for some. Undocumented migrants tend to have limited access to treatment.

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  • SOCIAL KITCHEN “THE OTHER HUMAN”

    The idea of Society Kitchen “The Other Human” Free Food For All is an action of solidarity where people come together to make food for the afflicted. Run and funded by volunteers, including people who are unemployed or homeless, the food is prepared in a public space, and while they wait for it to be cooked, they communicate with one another. The initiative also holds weekly classes for children who are dropping out of school, and runs a theatre group that provides art therapy.

  • Fenix – Humanitarian Legal Aid

    Legal Empowerment
    On Lesvos and in Athens, we support individuals navigating asylum procedures with a holistic, human-centred approach. Our clients face many obstacles in accessing, and violations of, their rights. Viewing our clients as more than just legal cases, we address their diverse needs with legal and protection specialists, using trauma-informed care. On Lesvos, we offer essential legal information and counsel inside the refugee camp, assisting over 1300 people this year. In Athens, our attorneys offer full legal representation throughout the entire asylum process.

    Structural Change
    We use the information we get from our clients and from being based at the frontline of the EU borders to pursue a range of advocacy efforts, from raising awareness to communications with relevant stakeholders, and from seeking interventions from European Courts to working with people who seek asylum on publications.

  • CHEERing (Center for Health Equity, Education and Research, International Group)

    Provides prenatal counselling, infant feeding support, and training for the agencies who serve refugee families.

  • Positive Voice

    Increases awareness and protects the rights of people living with HIV/ AIDS in Greece. It also implements actions, reaching vulnerable groups such as the homeless, substance abusers, sex workers, refugees and migrants.

  • Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality & Diversity

    Legal counselling, career counselling, informal education, and advocacy, policy and research.

  • Velos Youth

    Velos Youth is a non-profit organisation that provides safe spaces for displaced unaccompanied children and young people on the move. They provide the latter with psychosocial support, material support, connection with services that provide health care, and legal advice.

  • Odyssea

    Supports and empowers excluded and vulnerable local, migrant and refugee communities in Greece. They provide educational training programs on employability, computer skills, sales techniques and more.

  • SolidarityNow

    Job counselling, job search services on the internet with the help of specialised counsellors, group workshops, seminars and networking activities (seeking to enhance the ability of the unemployed by vulnerable groups to enter the labour market).

  • Greek Forum of Migrants

    The Hellenic Immigrant Forum (EFM) is a network of 42 immigrant organisations and communities in Greece for the protection of immigrants’ rights and equal employment and social integration.

  • Red Umbrella Athens

    Provides free prevention and empowerment services to women (trans & cis) and male sex workers at the Day Care Center.

  • METAdrasi

    Facilitates the reception and integration of refugees and migrants in Greece, by providing services such as interpretation, accommodation for unaccompanied children or legal aid to asylum seekers.

  • Syrian American Medical Society Organisation

    Provides medical care and treatment to every patient in need.

  • GIVMED

    Support the elderly, refugees and other socially vulnerable groups who do not have access to their medicines.

  • I Have Rights

    I Have Rights (IHR) is a non-profit legal and political organisation providing access to individualised legal information and support to people on the move, including people seeking asylum, refugees, and migrants on Samos, Greece. We communicate openly about the situation on Samos while also advocating for the change of policies and practices that are responsible for human rights violations on Samos and in Europe. Our organisation addresses present-day unfair and undignified asylum and migration procedures by working to ensure the right to asylum, eliminate pushbacks, and fight against all detention of migrants and refugees.

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