Stefania Mizara https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/stefania-mizara/rss en Innovation & Technology Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Stefania Mizara https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/03/25/amid-their-own-crisis-greeks-stand-by-refugees https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/03/25/amid-their-own-crisis-greeks-stand-by-refugees A product of Greece’s social solidarity movement that arose in the aftermath of a debilitating economic crisis, Platanos is a self-organized Greek group that has been assisting refugees in Greece. As major NGOs pull out from Lesbos to avoid complicity in the mass expulsion of refugees under the E.U.-Turkey deal, Platanos will stay put.