Europe | Greece | Activism

Teens make baby sling pouches for refugees

A small multicultural group of teenagers from Germany, France, Italy and Greece, living in Thessaloniki, a Greek port city on the Aegean Sea, decided to think out of the box and take a rather unique initiative. Francesca from Italy, a volunteer with the United Society Balkans, along with the Refugee Solidarity Movement of Thessaloniki group traveled to the neutral zone between Greece and Macedonia to assess the needs of the refugees. They saw hundreds of mothers and fathers trying to carry their babies and toddlers during their long and exhausting journeys across the borders of Europe.

Europe | Greece | Society

Why young Greek women leave and why they come back

Source: Pangea Today

ICAP, a leading business consultancy group in Southeast Europe conducted a survey in order to determine why young Greek women decide to leave the country and what it would take for them to return. The phenomenon has been quite pronounced in the last five years, depriving the country of talented and well-trained female personnel, resulting in the so called “brain drain.” The main factors that would contribute to their return, according to the findings of the survey, are the climate and the Greek lifestyle (46 percent), the likelihood of a rewarding remuneration at work (41 percent), t