Every child deserves a family.
Child protection has many challenges, but the solution is clear: collaboration, modernization, and awareness. Creating a strong support network for children—whether they are in institutions, experiencing homelessness, or victims of violence—is a responsibility shared by both the state and society. The childcare system must shift from institutional care to community-based services that provide a family environment.
We can all be part of this change. In our own way, with the means we have. With love.
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Because every child deserves an embrace filled with light.
And we all deserve such an embrace.
The National Focal Point Team
 #WeCanBecomeMore
New Perspectives in Child Protection Policy – the systemic approach
More than 1,470 children are still waiting in institutions in Greece. Of these children, 82% are over the age of six. The two strategic advocacy goals of SOS Children’s Villages have been pivotal, impacting more than 3,000 children living in institutions, as well as hundreds of foster, adoptive, and biological families—significantly modernizing the child protection sector in Greece.
Strengthening the support and protection of women and children victims of domestic violence
In Greece, the daily practice of supporting women victims of domestic violence (DV) and their children reveals significant gaps in coordination and networking among relevant agencies, a lack of a common protocol for handling cases, insufficient professional training, and more. Numerous systems are involved in addressing DV, but they operate sequentially, without connection, and are activated only after specific actions taken by the victim.
Schools for All – Integration of refugee children in Greek schools
An innovative, national, three-year program aimed at strengthening democratic culture in schools. It provided scientific training and ongoing support to school principals, teachers, and parents on topics related to democratic citizenship, inclusion in the educational environment, and human rights.
The Mobile School travels…
…for Roma children who live and work on the streets, who are not integrated into school communities or tend to drop out at an early age. The Mobile School is a rectangular, portable structure with foldable blackboards, extending up to 6 meters in width. It features over 300 educational and discussion panels on topics, such as diversity, personal hygiene, and more.
HOUSE2: Α Child Protection Facility
A shelter for children, founded in 2020, aims to offer a “second home” to the most vulnerable of the vulnerable: young children and underage mothers with their babies.
The children of HOUSE2 have a first home somewhere—a home they were forced to leave or a home they hope to return to soon. That’s why HOUSE2 is Home No. 2
Strengthening the protective environment for unaccompanied children
Child protection professionals from the Mobile Unit of Streetwork by ARSIS in Thessaloniki work on the front lines, conducting daily interventions and community outreach actions targeting the children’s ethnic communities within the urban landscape of the city. Many times, the Mobile Unit also conducts such interventions in areas outside of Thessaloniki and other cities in Northern Greece.
