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Athens, Greece

The Self-Advocacy Team (SAT) is a team of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and second generation Greeks who are active members of their communities and integrated in the Greek Society.

The SAT is an initiative of the Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) which, based on its experience of mobilizing and empowering the refugee communities in Athens, is determined in continuing its endeavor for the civic engagement and effective inclusion of refugees and migrants. As the GFR embodies self-advocacy and the self-organization of the communities, the creation of the Self-Advocacy Team (SAT) serve this purpose in an extraordinary manner; composed by members of several different nationalities that will enhance their skills through workshops, interactions with the communities and other similar activities, the SAT will continue to advocate for a holistic social inclusion empowering their voice and visibility with the aim of influencing policy makers and, at the same time, providing essential feedback