The pivot of EDRA – The “Social Cooperative Action for Vulnerable Groups” S.C.A.V.G is the emotional and practical support of individuals with Mental Health problems and mentally challenged adults as well as of children with learning disabilities. Our mission is the development of selected actions offered to our community (in terms of restoration and rehabilitation) with a double mandate: that of health and wellness as well as prevention and education regarding mental health.

The purpose of the Association is to create and operate houses where people with mental disabilities live permanently in a socially integrated environment having adequate support for their needs. This creates a safe and pleasant environment for growing individual and social skills of young people and achieve the greatest appropriate autonomy.

Advocates Abroad is a non-profit organization that seeks to uphold the fundamental rights and dignity of asylum seekers and refugees through free and timely legal and non-legal assistance. This assistance is provided directly through the 24/7 care of field and remote teams, and supplemented by in-depth policy papers of the academic team.

The NGO AITIMA founded in December 2008 and has the legal form of a non-profit organization. As stated in the statute aims is to defend human rights and environmental protection. These purposes NGO REQUEST seeks to achieve them with: -the provision of free counseling and legal assistance to vulnerable to the violation of their rights groups (refugees, migrants, minorities, etc.) -the organization of events (seminars, conferences etc.) -cooperation with other organizations and collectives -the investigation and recourse to justice. The founding team of the NGO REQUEST consists firstly by people with years of service and experience in the defense of human rights and also by recognized refugees and asylum seekers.

Ambition of the non-profit Protection of Autistic Children "EMERGENCE" is to create a living space for autistic children and can accommodate children with mental retardation and Down Syndrome. This particular life space will allow the children to live avoiding the institution, without losing touch with their parents while they live and they can help, but after the death of parents.

Improving the living conditions of vulnerable groups are often targeted discrimination (migrants, refugees, people with disabilities, prisoners, homosexuals, the elderly, the unemployed, women, youth, etc.)

The E.P.A.PS.Y. was founded in 1988 and has the scientific and administrative responsibility 14 Housing Structures Psychosocial Rehabilitation (Houses, Hostels, Sheltered Dimaerismata), 1 Day Centre and two Mobile Units in the Cyclades. Recognizing the importance held by mental health, promotes European programs and multilateral actions aimed at weakening the stigma, prevention and mental health promotion, continuous assessment and improvement of mental health services, safeguard the rights of the mentally ill, education and professional rehabilitation of persons with mental health problems, to strengthen mental health and families of recipients and the continuous training of mental health professionals.

Boroume is a nonprofit organization aimed at limiting food waste and combat malnutrition in Greece. Boroume started saving 12 pies from a cafeteria in 2011 and now we save daily and offer food that represents more than 14,000 servings, and until today we have offered a total of 5.5 million food rations to hundreds of charitable institutions throughout Greece. Our vision is to develop a social movement reducing food wastage while increasing food support people in need on the basis of the voluntary offer.

Our aim is to feed and human support. In Association "BREAD-ACTION" serve the idea of ​​Charity Volunteer. "Volunteering" for us means "rough amateurism" but "high quality Professionalism". What really interests us is to find ourselves with all our strength on the side of those who suffer today. We work with any government entity or NGO which aims to eliminate or alleviate pain, violence, misery, ignorance and injustice. The Association "BREAD-ACTION" is organized in standards private company based in Athens and Annexes in Aspropyrgos, in Heliopolis, Agios Dimitrios, at Perama, in Gkorytsa Aspropyrgos, Thessaloniki and Ioannina. Also developed "Cores Philanthropy" serving 10-20 families in different regions of Attica.

Psychological and social support of people living with HIV / AIDS and general public awareness of the public.

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1956 that works in more than 30 countries throughout the world. DRC fulfils its mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations – refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities in the conflict areas of the world; and by advocating on behalf of conflict-affected populations internationally, and in Denmark, on the basis of humanitarian principles and the Human Rights Declaration.

Desmos (www.desmos.org) is a non-profit organization, to exploit the surplus of individuals and companies to meet the needs of organizations and Institutions of Social Welfare. Since its inception in January 2012 until today, the Link, focusing its offices in Athens and Thessaloniki, has provided an ever-growing network of 338 organizations of social utility in Greece, helping a total of more than 200,000 short and long term beneficiaries thanks to offer more than 110 companies and hundreds of individuals! The estimated value of the goods is handled by the Link exceed 1,000,000 euros. For more information about the action of Desmos and photographs and also to see how you can help, visit our website www.desmos.org, facebook: https: //www.facebook.com/ desmos.org, email us or call us on 210 8119365 and [email protected] for Athens and [email protected] 2310 527620 for Thessaloniki!

The concern for the protection, care, education, skills development, physical education and professional training as a living, rehabilitation, social adaptation and work on sports, adult Persons with Mental Retardation

Emfasis was founded to address the holistic needs of all vulnerable and socially excluded groups in need of social, psychological , family support using the principles of Social Street Working as its main way of approach and identification of such groups.

Since its establishment in 1992, the "Estia Agios Nikolaos' recognized by the Greek state as a Charity. We also possess the specific certification as Social Care service . Finally, in 2011 we were recognized by the Greek General Secretariat for Youth as volunteers host organization with the European Voluntary Service program, which funds us for hosting volunteers from Europe. A fundamental principle of "Estia Agios Nikolaos" is that each person has their own unique abilities and can help them develop if incorporated in an environment of warmth through creative work, artistic impulses and direct contact with nature.

KMOP is a non-governmental Organisation founded in 1977 to support people at risk or living under conditions of social exclusion, to provide integrated services for social and professional reintegration of unemployed and persons belonging to vulnerable social groups, developing degraded areas, scientific research and providing expertise in social policy

Filoi tis Merimnas is an association of non-profit-Skopje character founded in 2002 with the sole purpose of material and moral support of social work Welfare. Addressed to all concerned citizens and organizations, informing them about the work of the Care and inviting them to help and they in turn in whatever way they can.

The Greek "Food Bank - 'Foundation for the fight against hunger" was founded in 1995 on the initiative of Gerasimos Vasilopoulos. It is a non-profit charitable foundation, exclusively dedicated to the fight against hunger and limit waste.

The Bridge of Life was established in December 2012 by people who have either family members with a handicap or are willing to support disabled people. The objectives of the organization are to improve the mental and social care of children and adolescents with special needs.

The Association GON.IS (and its members) support children's right to receive care on behalf of both their parents, regardless of their marital status (married, divorced, free union). The Association: Acts to modernize the Greek legal framework and harmonize it with accordance to the European Union's respective framework. Supports its members on issues of shared custody. It provides specialized consulting services to its members, by scientific staff (psychologists, lawyers, tax consultants, etc.).

The aim of the association is permanent and long-term care provision, education, shelter and psychological support to children on the basis of the Greek-Orthodox Tradition and the principles of Pedagogy and Psychology.

The Union's aim is to defend the rights and views of people who do or have used drugs and substances, helping them achieve a better quality of life, the advocacy of harm reduction interventions and against stigma and social exclusion.

The name "Heart Doctors" has symbolic meaning: expresses deep feeling of pure and unconditional love for all people and especially to the patient neighbor, which stems from the soul, from their heart.

Equitable Education and Social Integration of people with blindness and additional disabilities and their families

All Day center for preschool children and adolescents with autism and childhood psychoses

The broad aim of the Society is to promote actions that allow the treatment of mental health problems and general social exclusion, helping the individual to remain an active citizen, in his own environment, with autonomy, economic activity and social inclusion.

ELISOF's mission is to address key social issues such as social inequality, racism, social exclusion and violence, in all its forms. The organisation's mission is achieved through prevention, education and training, as well as with the implementation of best European and international practices, in our country.

Ithaca is a Mobile Laundry for the Homeless in Athens.

Callas, civil non-profit company, was founded in March 2010 with a view to promoting widespread and documented alternative treatments and methods that contribute to prevention and health promotion resulting in holistic mental and spiritual health. Aimed at socially vulnerable groups where the benefits are multi-level.

KETHEA is the largest service network rehabilitation and social reintegration in the country. KETHEA programs provide counseling and drug treatment, family support, health care issues and legal issues, education and training, reintegration into society and the world of work. The services are offered free of charge during the treatment is not administered substitutes or medicines. The aim is full and stable abstinence from substances and equitable reintegration of the individual in society.

Therapy center for dependent individuals.The program helps alcohol, drug and gambling addicts and offers services to different ethnic and religious groups, ensuring that the services delivered are respectful of the attendants’ cultural and linguistic identities.

KETHEA NOSTOS is a residential programme founded in 1993 to meet the needs of adult drug users and their families in Piraeus, the Aegean islands and southern Greece in general. With the exception of the NOSTOS Therapeutic Community (capacity: 55) which has its headquarters in Selinia on the island of Salamina, the Programme’s facilities are all located in Piraeus.

KETHEA INTERVENTION is a therapeutic program for drug addicts, aimed at people over 21 years and their families and aims to rehabilitation, education and social reintegration of members.

SOCIAL CARE SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece is Association of Private Law and operates since 1946 in the legal form of Specially Qualified nonprofit. Its main purpose is the vocational rehabilitation and social services to people with visual impairments (blind and partially sighted) of all ages, especially young blind people who are unable to be absorbed into other jobs. It creates opportunities and means to promote the quality, the spiritual and educational level and the establishment offers all services for FREE.

MARGARITA operates and is organized according to the principles of the anthropocentric/person-centered approach. Our effort focuses on the personality, the wishes, the needs and the rights of the individual with mental disability. MARGARITA’s interdisciplinary team is based on the principle of respect of the rights and dignity of handicapped people. It designs and offers services and programs for education, professional training and support leading to autonomy. The acquisition of autonomy by an individual with special needs means that both he/she him-/herself and his/her environment accept his/her particularity and difference. Everyone involved needs to be able to manage the disability. Our job includes their support (psychological, educational, loving) whenever and wherever they need it, in order for their voice to be heard even louder.

Who we are; The "Together for Children" is an umbrella ten charitable non-profit clubs, which began operating in 1996 to equally unite their efforts for children in need. Together the ten clubs offer yearly coordinated services and a better future to more than 10,000 children in Greece. Philosophy The "Together for Children" we believe that together we can achieve more substantial results and uniting our forces and we prove it every day putting into practice our philosophy, which is none other than the "strength in unity". Vision The creation of a broad network of services, in cooperation with reliable and competent bodies in Greece and abroad, to relieve every child in need. Goals Provision of material, mental, medical and moral support to infants, children, adolescents and young Psychosocial support families Information and sensitization of society for children in need Dissemination of the principles and methods of volunteering Collaboration with organizations for the child and the teenager Promoting scientific research Find resources (financial and material) for the continuation and development of the project members and Union Partner

The objective of MDM is to provide primary medical and pharmaceutical care to vulnerable social groups

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, exclusion from medical care and natural disasters.

Purpose KETHEA MOSAIC is the psychosocial support of migrants and refugees interfering essentially on two levels: a.Kinitopoiisi and drug treatment by drugs and b. Psychological support non-users

A voluntary group without legal form with a house that they help people you cant with everyday needs such as food,bathing a place for their children to play etc.

In cooperation with specialists of mental health professionals, we can propose effective solutions and provide multifaceted support to persons addicted to alcohol, drugs, gambling, internet, etc. The Oasis is a non-profit organization maintained by subscriptions and donations to survive and to fulfill the objectives of which are: 1. The prevention and treatment of addiction, complete abstinence from all substances that cause addiction. 2. The information on addictions and dependencies. 3. Scientific research and study of the phenomenon of dependence and the factors that generate them. 4. Raising awareness and informing the general public. 5. The wording of views and proposals to the exercise of power carriers for formulating appropriate policies. 6. Cooperation and networking with organizations that develop relevant actions. 7. Raising awareness and mobilizing scientists voluntary aid offer. 8. The establishment and operation of educational workshops former drug people to acquire professional skills. 9. The development of sports, cultural, entertainment for addicts. 10. The social reintegration of former drug people. 11. The promotion of volunteering. 12. The creation of suitable conditions for life without dependencies.

The PEGKAP-NY (Panhellenic Association of Parents of Children Persons - Mental trailing), founded in 1960 by Parents and Guardians people Mentally trailing. The primary objective of PEGKAP-NY is to recognize the problems of people with intellectual disabilities, regardless of gender or age, and ensure special education, Vocational Determination, The Professional Education, Social and Professional Reintegration and Supported Living. It offers education and training in sheltered workshops for people with mental retardation who ranged in age from 18-35 years, to professional and social participation in the free market and the employment of people.

Το Ψυχοπαιδαγωγικό Κέντρο «Πνοή» Ηρακλείου λειτουργεί με την συνδρομή της Κοινωνικής Υπηρεσίας του Δήμου Νέου Ηρακλείου και την «ΕΔΡΑ», ως πρότυπο κέντρο πρόληψης, αξιολόγησης και αποκατάστασης, παρέχοντας υπηρεσίες σε παιδιά προσχολικής και σχολικής ηλικίας και τις οικογένειές τους, που αντιμετωπίζουν προβλήματα λόγου, μάθησης ή σχολικής ένταξης. Πρόκειται για ένα Κέντρο που συμπληρώνει τις υπάρχουσες κοινωνικές δομές και απευθύνεται σε όλους τους πολίτες.

The aims of PNOI ELPIDAS is charitable, humanitarian, ecological, cultural, educative, cultural

The organization's goal is to meet public purposes in individuals and groups of individuals threatening diseases and "vulnerable" social groups. Volunteers' Messengers Region "is responsible for Finding, Development, On, Information and Coordination Supporters Site

The Psychogeriatric Company "Nestor" was founded by members of the Greek Gerontology and Geriatrics Society in 2001. It is currently the largest provider of free services for the elderly in our country. More than 5000 elderly receive high quality services by more than 85 health professionals and dozens of volunteers of our company.

The network of read for others is a nonprofit volunteer group that aims at reading books to those who can not do it alone, eg in our blind citizens, in institutions with children and the elderly, hospitals, clinics quadriplegic, and generally in areas with vulnerable groups. One of our main activities is the recording audio books for the blind.

Diogenes NGO is a non-profit organization which launched the “Kick Out Poverty” campaign in Greece back in 2007. The main aim of the campaign is to provide support to the most vulnerable members of our society. Homeless people, people on drug rehabilitation programs and asylum seekers are the groups in focus, while social integration/social inclusion through sport is the core aim of Diogenes. Raising public awareness on the issues of homelessness and getting people actively involved in various forms of activities against social exclusion is another core aim of the campaign In February 2013, Diogenes NGO launched the first Greek street paper. The name of the paper is “Shedia”

Its primary purpose M.A.Z.I. is the substantial contribution to addressing the economic problems they experience every day now, our fellowmen. Individuals and families who are experiencing unemployment, economic hardship and health problems can meet their primary survival needs, by purchasing completely free, food and clothes from the Social Grocery M.A.Z.I.

Taking actions that serve the needs of children and adults with disabilities and their families.

The main and basic action Bridge includes offering help through: -ways to approach (outreach work), -individual / detached offer assistance (detached work), -ergasias based on a plan / program (project based work) and, -team action (group action). Our teams are on the way "work" with people who belong to one or more of the following circumstances: underage workers, homeless, users or addicted to illegal drugs, refugees and migrants, sex workers / s, minorities, victims of trafficking, people who either forced or choose to spend their day on the street, people who live on the street.

The Foundation "Theotokos " is a charitable, non-profitable and non-governmental ,private law organization which was established in 1954 (NW 212 Issue A 08.09.1954) and is supervised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance . The organization serves children and youth with mental retardation and other developmental deficiencies, as well as their families. Key features of the way the internal operation and management of the Foundation include the democratic decision-making and administrative independence of this. The mission of the Foundation is to educate children and young people. "

Adoption needy families proposed by the K.Y.A.D.A (Welcome Center & Solidarity of Athens) in which they distributed food, clothing and basic necessities in 5 regular intervals darkeia year. Target 2013 is to provide medical care to these families and widening the circle of volunteers.

The Wise Greece is a nonprofit Movement dual purpose. On the one hand we promote worldwide the Greek diet while on the other we use ALL the profit from sales of Greek products to buy food and to allocate to children and homeless people at risk of poverty.

The Association of Parents Guardians and Friends A.meA. "To Ergastiri" founded by parents of children with mental retardation in order to constant care and support. The main concern of the association is the care, sheltered employment, social inclusion and future living 100 young people with mental retardation. In the "Workshop" operate various departments: bakery, catering-catering, pasta, laundry, pottery, tapestry, artistic batik fabric-processing, packaging-standardization, gardening and Day Spa. Furthermore the Centre with experienced and qualified personnel available to provide a complete network Support Services to psycho-emotional support and preparation of people with mental retardation for the most complete support them in society. Such is Counseling - Psychological support, individual, group and family, special physical therapy, occupational therapy, vocational guidance, rehabilitation in the open labor market development programs of social skills and behavior, therapeutic riding, traffic education, maintenance of school knowledge.

Our goal is to give the opportunity to as many young people as possible to be mobile, to study, work and volunteer abroad. Our objectives are to promote young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular, • develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union • foster mutual understanding between young people in different countries • contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field

The 'Life Line', a non-profit volunteer organization. Founded in May 2006 by Gerasimos Kouroukli, surrounded by a group of people with the scientific knowledge and experience in social work, physical and mental health sensitized to existing problems in an organized and effective support of the elderly. Fixed to our goal we design, implement and support action programs in the direction of ensuring quality and decent living of the most vulnerable groups, that of older people (65+). Care, protection, security feeling is what we strive to offer the elderly. Volunteering, activation of society, use of technology and communication are the means we use to achieve it. Sustained support Associations, Institutions, Business and ordinary citizens, today is our springboard to reach the LIFE message we send in as many ears and sensitize citizens and the state even more to the needs and problems of older people (third and fourth).

Cessation from drugs and othe substances