S03E20: "Nobody Should be Growing Up in Refugee Camps.” Housing issues in Greece

Fractured

Greece struggles with a serious housing crisis. Walking down the streets of Athens you will notice many homeless people. Many of them are refugees and asylum seekers who after receiving their asylum decision were forced to leave the camp within 7 days. Without any integration classes in camps, and very rare Greek lessons, most people find it extremely difficult to find a new accommodation and even harder to convince the owner to rent it to a person with a refugee background. Sadly there are no structural solutions, and there are very few services addressing this issue. In this episode we are talking with Kayra Martinez - a founder of Love without Borders. This small NGO found an interesting way to support people in need of housing. Listen to their unique story.

On this International Refugee Day tune in on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts on Thursday, June 20th.

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S03E20 EPISODE GUIDE:

00:00:00 Intro and Title Sequence

00:01:47 Pt 01 Kayra Martinez

00:26:26 Love Without Borders Promo

00:30:22 Pt 02 Kayra Martinez

00:57:10 Outro and Closing Credits

"Fractured" is an original production of ReFOCUS Media Labs (@refocusmedialabs on all social media platforms)

PRODUCTION FAMILY:

Co-hosts: Sonia Nandzik-Herman, Rasheed Ghalli

Production Family:

Sude Fazlollah, Eli Fazlollah, Dawoud Nouri, Rasheed Ghalli,Lotta Luley, Federico Rinaldi, Dariia Stepanova

Citizen Journalists:

Yaser Taheri, Milad Ebrahimi, Yaser Akbari, Naqib Rasuli, Mohammad Ali Alami

Mentorship: Douglas Herman

Producers: Sonia Nandzik-Herman, Douglas Herman

Graphic Design: Eli Fazlollah for designs by Eli go to: ⁠https://refocusmedialabs.org/shop⁠

MUSIC:

Theme- "Intro for Legends" by Bonkers Beat Club (Epidemic Sound)

Additional- "Mogul" by Blue Steel (Epidemic Sound)

OUR PARTNERS:

Allianz Foundation, Aputure, Choose Love, Leave No One Behind, Europe Cares, Parea Center Lesvos, The Home Collective, National Geographic

SPECIAL THANKS:

To the extended ReFOCUS Family for their dedication, passion and creativity all year long. We’re not where we are today without all the effort from Florian Krauer, Louise Holm, Chryssa Kouroukli, Yaiza Pardinas, Matthew Goncalves O’Kelly, Jennifer Perez, Jule Pehnt, Majid Bakhshi, Nazanin Foroghi, Yaser Akbari, Dariia Stepanova, Paul “Al” Simon, Jaime Moro Saavedra, Joëlle Hübscher, Beni Rietmann, Jakob Mayr, Jurek Edel, Francisco Ibanez, Bart Van Son, Federico Bustamente, Myriam Rey, Lotta Luley and Federico Rinaldi.

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This podcast is the product of our ReFOCUS citizen journalism program

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