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Strategic meeting in Kavala on social inclusion

The Vela team travelled to Kavala for a substantive discussion with Dimitrios Remmos, Director of the Controlled Access Facility for Temporary Accommodation of Asylum Seekers, who brings long experience in protecting unaccompanied minors and vulnerable groups.
We had the honour of briefing him on the Erasmus+ BRIDGE programme, in which Vela is the lead Greek partner: preventing radicalisation and strengthening the social inclusion of young migrants, co-designing the “Mixing Culture” board game with young people, and Vela's role in research and in training field professionals in empathetic listening.
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The Malakasa Safe Area operates under the action "Strengthening the protection system for unaccompanied minors and vulnerable women applicants for and beneficiaries of international protection II" (MIS 5230060), funded by the National Development Programme (EPA) 2026–2030 through the Special Service for the Coordination and Management of Migration and Home Affairs Programmes (EYSYD-MEY) of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum, with IOM Greece as implementing partner. The Drama and Kavala Safe Zones (until June 2026) were funded by the EPA 2021–2025 through the same scheme.
