{"id":26020233,"date":"2018-03-09T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/pr-children-educational-activities\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:15:56","slug":"pr-children-educational-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/pr-children-educational-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 700 refugee and migrant children participate in METAdrasi\u2019s educational activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/education.gif\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\">The bell rings daily for more than 700 refugee and migrant children that participate in METAdrasi\u2019s educational activities in Athens, Lesvos and Chios, while their reunification\/relocation in another European country or their integration into Greek schools is pending. Following the fruitful cooperation with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.athensopenschools.gr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Schools<\/a>\u201d programme of the Athens Municipality, from June 2017, METAdrasi aims to meet the educational needs of children living in camps or on hotspots on the islands, by focusing primarily on structured education and secondly on recreational activities.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, METAdrasi with the support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNHCR<\/a>, initiated, in January 2018, the implementation of non-formal Education Centers in Lesvos, for children from Kara Tepe and Moria, as well as in Chios, for children from VIAL, in spaces outside the hotspots. METAdrasi delivers mainly Greek, Mathematics and English lessons, based on the official programme of the Ministry of Education.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/education-b.gif\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" title=\"Metadrasi -\">\u201cThe number of children that remain trapped for long periods of time in the island\u2019s hotspots is high. Many of them have never been to school. All of them, however, are enthusiastic to participate in activities that will aid their personal development and stimulate their growth as learners, along with other children of the same age. We were moved by their enthusiasm for the beginning of the first day of lessons, when they created queues a long time before. From then on, they continue to come daily with the same enthusiasm! As for their parents, they visit us regularly, expressing their interest in their children\u2019s progress\u201d mentions Anastasia Karagianni, METAdrasi\u2019s Education Officer in Chios.A particular effort is being made to support children with special educational needs, so as to prevent their exclusion from education. As Konstantinos Karakouzidis, METAdrasi\u2019s Education Officer in Lesvos says: \u201cWe have referred cases of children with special needs, in order for them to integrate into an appropriate educational framework, as soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMETAdrasi\u2019s purpose is to put emphasis on children\u2019s education outside the hotspots and the mainland\u2019s camps, so as to enable their smooth integration into the official school system\u201d stresses METAdrasi\u2019s president Lora Pappa.<\/p>\n<p>Inside his new classroom, 8-year-old Samir from Syria is playing with his new friends, waiting for the lesson to start. \u201cI am glad that finally I have notebooks and pencils and that I am learning to write\u201d, he tells us, and continues: \u201cGreek is difficult, but my teachers are great and they help me. Mathematics seems like a game!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/pr-children-educational-activities\/\">Press Release<\/a><br \/>\n8 March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":387353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[124,126],"tags":[431],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26020233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-press-room-en","tag-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020233","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=26020233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26112660,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020233\/revisions\/26112660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26020233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26020233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26020233"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26020233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}