The Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and Melissa organized a public discussion titled “A Holistic Approach to Refugee Women’s Integration”.
Agenda
| 10.00-10.30 | Registration |
| 10.30-11.30 | Refugee women’s integration:
Presentation of the INTEGRA-TRAIN |
| 10.30-10.35 | Lefteris Papagiannakis, Vice Mayor for Migration & Integration, City of Athens |
| 10.35-10.50 | “Women weaving social cohesion”
Nadina Christopoulou, Anthropologist, Melissa Network co-Founder & coordinator |
| 10.50-11.10 | “Empowering women migrants and refugees”
Deborah Carlos Valencia, Social Worker, Melissa Network co-Founder |
| 11.10-11.30 | “Integration: challenges and ways forward: the INTEGRA-TRAIN project in Greece”
Rosa Vasilaki, Researcher, ELIAMEP |
| 11.30-11.45 | Questions and discussion |
| 11.45-12.00 | Coffee Break |
| 12.00-13.00 | Refugee women’s integration:
Voices and views from within |
| Roundtable | |
| 12.00-12.15 | 1. Entering sanctuary
· Andrea Borja, Social Scientist · Alice Fevre, Legal Expert · Karima Ganji, Interpreter, Cultural Mediator & Former Participant |
| 12.15-12.25 | 2. Learning & connecting
Vicky Koursoumi, Educator & Bahareh Rezaei, Participant |
| 12.25-12.40 | 3. Building resilience
· Panagiota Arvaniti, Clinical Psychologist & Psychodramatist · Farahnaz Ahmadi, Cultural Mediator & Former Participant · Parwaneh Afshari, Participant |
| 12.40-12.45 | 4. #HearMyVoice
Asmaa Alheder, MN Participant |
| 12.45-13.00 | 5. “The gift-box”
Meike Plötner, Participative Evaluation Specialist |
| 13.00-13.30 | Questions and discussion |
| 13.30-14.00 | Light Lunch |
| 14.00-14.45 | Voices and views from within: Community engagement projects
Roundtable: Community leaders sharing their experience |
| Moderator: | Maria Ohilebo, chef, Melissa Network co-Founder & Vice-President of NIDO (Nigerians in Diaspora) |
| · Loida Dollette President of DIWATA (Determined Independent Women in Action for Total Advancement & Kasapi Philippino community)
· Grace Thuo, Founder of KWETA (Kenyan Women Empowering Talents) · Natalia Kapanadze, Ivironi (Georgian community) · Hanna Oliynych (Club of Ukrainian Women in Greece) · Mahboubeh Tavakoli, Feeding the Homeless initiative |
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| 14.45-15.00 | Questions and discussion |
