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Feature: Greece's first refugee, migrant women's football team wins European cup Hestia FC, Greece's first football team comprised of women refugees and migrants, won a European cup, only three months after its formation.Katerina Salta, Sport for Protection program manager of the International Olympic Truce Centre which warmly embraced the idea of the team, told the story about Hestia FC during training in an Athens sport field.She said the team has support of the Greek state, local NGOs and international partners, and its 28 players hail from 12 countries.Hestia means hearth in Greek. In ancient Greece Hestia was the goddess of home and family life.This is what the team's players lost in their home countries, and what they are seeking while trying to rebuild their lives in their new home in Europe.Football is used as a tool for empowerment and protection of these vulnerable women and social inclusion, Salta explained. The women coming from countries such as Syria, Iran, Iraq, Eritrea and Somalia have rediscovered themselves, their strength and regained hope for their dream life.Hestia FC competes in the Global Goals World Cup (GGWCup), an activist 5v5 football tournament for women, which was launched by an international network of organizations supported by the EU and the UN among others.The idea is to promote the UN's Sustainable Development Goals through sport, using football to achieve gender equality, unity, peace.Hestia FC participated along other 24 teams in the European GGWCup and brought the trophy back from Copenhagen in May.The refugee and migrant players could not travel to Copenhagen due to lack of the necessary travel documents and were replaced by volunteers who are supporting their efforts, Salta noted, mentioning it is not against the rules of the tournament.
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QuoteCasino, cafe found in maximum security prisonPublic outrage was sparked over the state of the country’s penitentiaries on Wednesday after two makeshift casinos, a cafeteria serving espresso coffee and crepes, as well as a workshop making scores of improvised knives were discovered inside Athens’ maximum-security Korydallos Prison during an investigation.http://www.ekathimerini.com/241957/article/ekathimerini/news/casino-cafe-found-in-maximum-security-prison
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