{"id":26014248,"date":"2017-07-25T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/building-a-new-life-in-portugal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:55:18","slug":"building-a-new-life-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/building-a-new-life-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a new life in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan, who lived in Greece in accommodation facilities and camps, without prospect to join the relocation program or family reunification with a relative in another EU country, live since April in Portugal, where METAdrasi\u2019s team accompanied them.<\/p>\n<p>Their first months in the new host country brought many new things, but also challenges. The minors go to school, try to learn the language better day by day, make new friends, indulge in their favorite sport, football. METAdrasi\u2019s members of the Guardianship Network for Unaccompanied Minors are still by their side, through skype or phone calls. We are all sending them positive energy!<\/p>\n<p>This important opportunity for a new life was offered to the five children after major efforts and METAdrasi\u2019s cooperation with organizations and authorities in Portugal and Greece, such as the Portuguese National Federation of Institutions of Solidarity CNIS, the pertinent Portuguese Ministries, the Greek Asylum Service and the Athens Minors Prosecutor. Financial support was provided by the Swiss Organization\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nomorewalking.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=907385666008607\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">No More Walking<\/a>, with their initiative Just Cycling and the collective initiative \u201cNever Alone &#8211; Building our future with children and youth arriving in Europe\u201d by the\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epim.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=183325868413883\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">European Programme for Integration and Migration<\/a>(EPIM) and\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snf.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=193078140705171\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Stavros Niarchos Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bodossaki.gr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=227289347288526\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Bodossaki Foundation &#8211; \u038a\u03b4\u03c1\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1 \u039c\u03c0\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latsis-foundation.org\/eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=430504236999800\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts continue to be made in order to enable us to give this opportunity to more unaccompanied children who are trapped in Greece and often live in unacceptable conditions, due to lack of proper accommodation facilities, and as a result are endangered by traffickers&#8217; networks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nomorewalking-logo5-e1445086354665.png\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Epim.jpg\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><b>This project has been supported by the European Programme for Integration and Migration (<span class=\"m_-6442762688935725914gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">EPIM<\/span><\/span>), a collaborative initiative of the Network of European Foundations.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/building-a-new-life-in-portugal\">Five unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan, who lived in Greece in accommodation facilities and camps, without prospect to join&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":386915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26014248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26014248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26014248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26014248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26014248"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26014248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}