Report SYRIA Broadcast 02. Borders Author: Aitor Sáez
The Expert Mrs Begoña Castiella has been working for Caritas Athens as a volunteer for four years. Professionally she works as a journalist for the Spanish newspaper ABC9. In the last years, Mrs Castiella has faced the increase of the right-extreme in Greece, by writing few articles about the topic and giving interviews for many NGOs. Conversation about the problems of refugees in Greece and the NGOs that work to protect their rights.
Interview. Begoña Castiella,
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Foreign Correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ABC and volunteer in Caritas, Athens
Caritas Greece CONTACT 52, Kapodistriou Street, 10432 - Athens Tel: +30 21 05 24 78 79 Email: caritashellas@caritas.gr Web: http://caritas.gr/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CaritasEuropa Twitter: @caritaseuropa
Description10 Founded in 1976 by the Catholic Bishops in Greece, Caritas Hellas (Caritas Greece) has a mission to promote and safeguard human dignity through social support services to migrants and refugees, advocate on behalf of the poor and needy and provide humanitarian aid when natural disasters or other types of emergency situations occur. Caritas Hellas has an extensive range of programmes that include offering nourishment and expert social support services to a rapidly growing population of refugees and immigrants, young people in need, the elderly and needy families. On a daily basis, the service includes the distribution of food, clothes, education, counseling and psychological support to 300 people, including 80 children. In addition,
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BEGOÑA CASTIELLA. Blog: ‘A la sombra del Acrópolis’ (Spanish). ABC. http://abcblogs.abc.es/alasombradelaacropolis/ 10 Description Caritas Greece: http://www.caritas.org/where-we-are/europe/greece/ Aitor Sáez / aitorsaezreporter@gmail.com / www.aitorsaez.com
Serres, Greece, 13/11/2014