Greece

Greece is located in southern Europe between Albania and Turkey and borders the Agean Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea. The capital is Athens. In 2004 the population was estimated to be 10.6 million people with a growth rate of 0.2 percent. The official language is Greek while English and French are also spoken.

Greece has been a member of the European Union since 1992 and has received approximately 3.3 percent of its overall GDP each year in aid from the EU, including in 1995 when it received three billion pounds. However, GDP grew by 4.7 percent in 2003 and growth is expected to be similar in 2004 because of the presence of the Olympic Games in Athens. Greece is also trying to restruction its economy to privatise several state enterprises and create pensions, while minimising bureaucratic inefficiencies, reducing public debt and tackling inflation and unemployment, which is at almost ten percent. Greece currently has a debt of over £35 billion.

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Life without Basic Service ''Street Children Say''
This study builds on the learning of Street Diary (Save the Children UK, 2001), giving theopportunity for a group of children to represent their own analysis of their situation. Itexamines the human and emotional dimension of life on the street. This is not astatistical or quantitative research but is representative of the feelings of children livingon the street about their lives and organisations working with them.

Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual

Organizational Diagnosis for Advocacy
When groups are considering advocacy, it is helpful for them to assess what advocacy actually can offer their organization, what some of the benefits and risks might be and what organizational barriers might influence their success.

Transnational Protection of Children: the Case of Albania and Greece 2000-2006
This publication presents the experience and knowledge of the organisations Terre des hommes and ARSIS in their efforts to address the phenomenon of exploitation and trafficking of Albanian children in the streets of Greece.  The collaboration between both organisations takes place in the framework of TACT (Transnational Action against Child Trafficking), a project dealing with the issue of child exploitation and trafficking and contributing to the setting up and running of protection mechanisms for Albanian children. 

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