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Activists Took Over This Abandoned Athens Hotel...and Gave it to Refugees

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Activists Took Over This Abandoned Athens Hotel...and Gave it to Refugees

After months of subsisting in overcrowded camps, migrants turned an empty building in the Greek capital into a remarkable experiment in self-managed living.

Greg James Donahue
Feb 7, 2017
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Activists Took Over This Abandoned Athens Hotel...and Gave it to Refugees

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In April 2016, an abandoned hotel in Athens, Greece, was transformed into housing for four hundred refugees from Syrian, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. The residents themselves help run the hotel – including cooking communal meals, organizing childcare and running language classes – creating a new model of living as the refugees start to rebuild their lives in Europe.

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