top of page
Here we keep you up to date on current developments around the topic of migration in Europe.

All Posts


Film Review: Long Distance Swimmer- Sara Mardini
After Netflix told the story of the Mardini sisters Sara and Yusra on their escape in 2022, it is now followed by a documentary focusing...
Alexia Hack
Jun 28, 20235 min read


Solidarity Flea Market
On Sunday, 18 June, we were present for the first time in Berlin with our stand at a flea market. More precisely, at the flea market on...
Project ELPIDA
Jun 27, 20231 min read


Summer Clothes for Just Action on Samos
In addition to our current donation campaign in Athens, we collected donations for our partner organization, Just Action , on Samos in...
Project ELPIDA
Jun 27, 20231 min read


Movie Screening:"Long Distance Swimmer - Sara Mardini"
On 20.06.23, the international World Refugee Day, we presented the documentary "Sara Mardini - Against the Current" in cooperation with...
Project ELPIDA
Jun 27, 20231 min read


The CEAS reform: Why the EU should reconsider its current proposal
After years of debate and controversy the European Union is aiming to reform its common European asylum system (CEAS). Here are some...
Alexia Hack
Jun 7, 20234 min read


Afghanistan: A country in constant turmoil
For 40 years now, Afghanistan has been engulfed in war. The lives of people in this multi-ethnic state located in the Hindu Kush are...
Project ELPIDA
May 24, 20234 min read


Germany’s “Migration Summit”: What Will Be Decided Today?
Today, the German migration summit is taking place in the Chancellery in Berlin. Instead of integration, the focus is increasingly on...
Alexia Hack
May 10, 20234 min read


News from Athens
About a year ago, Project ELPIDA e.V. was in Athens for the first time as part of a fundraising campaign. Much has changed since then. As...
Project ELPIDA
Apr 26, 20234 min read


Launch Athens Campaign 2023
After working with several partner organisations in Athens for the first time last year, we are now launching our second fundraising...
Project ELPIDA
Apr 23, 20232 min read


Clothing donations for Samos Volunteers
This year prior to our Samos campaign in 2023 we collected shoes, scarves, hats, and gloves in response to a request from our partner...
Project ELPIDA
Apr 12, 20231 min read


Greece before the presidential elections: A migration policy review
Nea Dimokratia, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has been in government since 2019. In the context of migration, these years have been marked...
Alexia Hack
Apr 12, 20236 min read


Yemen: The forgotten conflict
For the past eight years, Yemen has been engulfed in a bitter civil war that has largely gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. With...
Project ELPIDA
Mar 29, 20232 min read


Open Letter: No extension of the EU-Turkey Deal!Stop the funding of human rights violations.
No extension of the EU-Turkey Deal! Stop the funding of human rights violations. March 18, 2023 marks the seventh anniversary of the...
Project ELPIDA
Mar 15, 20234 min read


7 Years of EU-Türkiye Deal
In 2016, the EU- Türkiye deal was signed to prevent images like those from 2015. The deal was a blueprint for the externalisation and...
Alexia Hack
Mar 15, 20234 min read


The EU Migration Summit: The New Reality
For years, Europe's isolationist policies have been on the rise, with various states on Europe's periphery building fences, installing...
Alexia Hack
Feb 22, 20234 min read


Football Shoes Donation for Cheerin Greece
On February 16, 2023, with the tremendous support of our partner organization Wir Packens An e.V., we sorted and shipped football shoes...
Project ELPIDA
Feb 16, 20231 min read


Review: "The Swimmers"
The 2022 Netflix movie centers around the life of two sisters who flee their home in Syria in 2015 together with their older male cousin...
Alexia Hack
Feb 8, 202310 min read


Humanitarians on Trial - a Crisis for European Solidarity
Sean Binder, Sarah Mardini, and Nassos Karakitsos are just three publicly known names of overall 23 Lesvos-based humanitarian aid workers...
Alexia Hack
Jan 25, 20235 min read


2022 - A Year of Exclusion
The year 2022 is history. However, the situation at the European external borders has remained the same for people fleeing - or in many...
Project ELPIDA
Jan 11, 20235 min read


Police Brutality in Greece
Police violence, especially against minorities, is a feature of daily life in Greece. The death of a 16-year-old Roma by the gunshots of...
Alexia Hack
Dec 28, 20226 min read
bottom of page

