About us

The operation of the Refugee Care Center is carried out by the Greek Evangelical Alliance and is supported through offerings and volunteers from Evangelical Churches of Greece and  abroad in cooperation with Agape and AMG.

The Care Center is run by Agape and AMG. The cost of office furniture was covered  by supporters of these two organizations. In many cases, we have worked with volunteer doctors and dentists from Greece and abroad, providing medical and dental care to our beneficiaries.

Every week, qualified volunteers hold special courses within the framework of Al-Masira, a Christian program specially designed for Muslims. These courses are in English and addressed for now to Pakistanis. Soon, they will be also in Arabic by Arab-speaking trained volunteers.

We have New Testaments and Bibles in different languages ​​that anyone can have access to. We have Bibles and New Testaments in Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Dari (Afghan), Urdu (Pakistani). If anyone asks, we have memory cards for mobile phones and computers with the film Jesus and the Bible in many languages. The refugees can keep the film Jesus and the Bible in their own language and use the rest of the memory card for their own use. These cards have been offered by American Missionaries who work in Albania.

We are open every Tuesday and Thursday

from 12 noon until 6 PM.

During the hours we operate (every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 noon to 6 PM), male and female beneficiaries can take a shower, wash and dry their clothes very efficiently, take clothes from our warehouse while their children play in a specially designed place and everyone can enjoy warm snacks, pies, sweets, tea and coffee and attend language and skills lessons.

All the services we offer are in a safe place that we have established, at 5 Christou Pipsou Street, near the railway station of Thessaloniki. The building used to be a clothing manufacturing factory. Many similar businesses in the region were shut down due to the financial crisis, and so we rented this space at a reasonable price in January 2017. By March we had built partitions, installed various infrastructures, and in April 2017 the Center began to operate.

We operate with volunteers who offer their services to our fellow people in need. So far more than 1000 volunteers have served during the refugee crisis, coming mainly from the Evangelical Churches of Thessaloniki. There is also a large number of volunteers from foreign churches that sacrifice part of their holidays to serve these unfortunate people. Occasionally we have had students working with us from colleges and universities from various countries, as well as teams of different age groups who have come to help as they have heard about the wave of refugees and immigrants that cross or stay in Greece. These volunteers come at their own  expense and help in any field they are asked.

In order for the center to be functional, a minimum of 10 volunteers are needed every day. More volunteers are welcome, and they will be assigned various tasks.

For more information, please contact coordinator@carecenter.gr.