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  • 27/04/2017
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Cash card restores dignity for refugees in Greece

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues with the roll-out of a harmonized cash card assistance programme in Greece. The programme helps asylum seekers cover their basic needs, enables the dignity…

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  • 20/04/2017
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A home away from home under UNHCR accommodation programme

In Greece, refugees find new homes with UNHCR assistance, putting an end to months of uncertainty. LIVADIA, Greece ­- Spring is in the air and 30-year-old Haysam is in high…

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  • 23/03/2017
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Tilos: an island of solidarity

Tilos and its 500 inhabitants welcome with open arms several families of Syrian refugees. Τhe small island of Tilos, located only 18 kilometers from the Turkish coast in the Aegean…

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  • 22/02/2017
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More refugees leave warehouse sites for better housing

By Liene Veide in Thessaloniki, Greece Some 120 refugees and migrants that spent months in the old warehouse SK Market in the North of Greece are sleeping in hotel beds…

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  • 14/02/2017
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Four walls to call home, and the boys play again

“Life in the camp was difficult”, says Mohamed Salem, 26 year old shoemaker from Aleppo, Syria as he looks at his wife Khadija. “Some people were screaming and there were…

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The Emergency Support to Integration & Accommodation – ESTIA programme is co-funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union:

In 2020, € 175 million are available. This will allow UNHCR to maintain up to 25,500 places in urban accommodation by the end of the year.

The ESTIA cash assistance scheme aims to exceed 92,000 people in 2020.Refugees and asylum-seekers receive a pre-defined monthly cash grant through a dedicated cash card. This allows them to meet their basic needs as they choose, with dignity, while supporting the local economy

In 2019 the ESTIA programme was funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union:

In 2019, €190 million were available. This allowed UNHCR to maintain up to 25,000 places in urban accommodation. The ESTIA cash assistance scheme reached more than 90,000 people in 2019.

In 2017 and 2018 the ESTIA programme was funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid:

In 2018, €167.5 million was available. This allowed UNHCR to gradually establish 27,000 places in urban accommodation by the end of the year. The ESTIA cash assistance scheme reached more than 60,000 people in 2018.

In 2017 a budget of €139 million was available in order to provide 22,000 urban accommodation places and pre-defined monthly cash grants through a dedicated card to refugees and asylum-seekers in Greece.

Special thanks

To major donors to the refugee emergency in Europe – the European Union, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom – as well as to all government donors and private donors for their generous contributions. The financial support provided by donors who have contributed with non-earmarked and broadly earmarked funds, as well as for those who have contributed directly to the situation and the Greece operation allows to provide direct assistance and protection, and help find solutions for refugees and asylum-seekers. In this changing operational context, UNHCR is appealing to donors to provide contributions that can be allocated as flexibly as possible.

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