PINOR is a network that aims to share information about refugees and peacebuilding efforts. It advocates for migrant inclusion in Europe and sustainable migration policies. PINOR connects relevant stakeholders and develops training to build skills for working with refugees. It has over 60 partner organizations that help raise awareness and support social initiatives for refugees. The document shares perspectives from volunteers and partner organizations on the challenges of helping refugees, such as lack of funding. It also discusses the need to improve integration and avoid problems that lead to issues like criminality. Interviews provide insights into refugee camp conditions and the desire to find a better future. The goal is to have European institutions that understand the real situations faced by refugees.

1. #REFUGEESWELCOME

3. PROJUVEN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON
REFUGEES – PINOR
 PINOR is our formative and informative platform about inmigration and
peacebuilding.
 We aimed to create a new open portal to share free and non rhetorical information
about immigration and peacebuilding actions, and freely give tools, competences and
information in order to raise awareness on migration issues, human rights and
integration strategies.
Our complex task is to find shared points between migrants and people who live in the
country to reach a mutual understanding and to create a more respectful atmosphere,
this can increase the chances of good integration and strengthen links between
different people with different stories to tell.

4. OUR DIRECTIONS
• Lobby and advocacy, we advocate at European level towards migrant
inclusion and peacebuilding actions in the EU and sustainable migration
policies;
• Networking and cooperation, we connect with relevant stakeholders
across Europe: companies, public institutions, NGOs, media and academia;
• Raising awareness, together with our members we craft powerful messages
on migration topic and peacebuilding to reach young Europeans;
• Training programmes, we develop youth centered training courses aimed
to develop youth workers skills and build new ones;

5. PINOR PARTNERSHIP
Thanks to the support of our PINOR partners we can raise awareness and foster
new social initiatives in the field of refugees. Our network has more than 60
European and Asian NGOs which operate as multipliers of all PINOR activities and
allow us to reach higher impact in the civil society.

6. BLOG PINOR
We interviewed different NGOs in our country on
their work in the field of refugees and migration.
What are the biggest challenges you face in your
daily work?
“The biggest challenge is to get the titanic and
daily work of each volunteer to benefit the
migrants. In the absence of public subsidies, in
response, we must constantly devise ways to
some value to the society; we can provide funds
that we can translate into direct aid to shelter
applicants or subsidiary protection, both in Spain
and away from our borders.”
Asociación de Apoyo al pueblo sirio - Andalucia

7. What are the biggest challenges you must face in
your daily work?
“At the moment, the biggest challenge for us is to get
funds for the many needs that knock on our
It is not only about Greece but every country where
operate in emergencies and more, on the subject of
refugees, as the recent case of Peru where we are
already acting in the same place where there have
been major floods. In addition, we act every day in
foster homes, full of children and abandoned mothers
without resources. We do not have the 1% of
subsidies of the State, not only in Spain but in the
other countries too. The financing depends on our
work and the created solidarity companies where we
act and private partners who provide solidarity aid.”
Asociación REMAR

8. How do you consider the awareness of the programs related to the refugees problems
and what programs do you carry out from your organization in this field?
“The reality with the refugees has been a great surprise for us because the awareness of the
Spanish population has been great; more than 2,000 people have traveled from Spain and
Switzerland to Greece, a tremendous mobilization of people as well as donation: clothing
food. Every day, people outside the association write us and want to travel, in order to help
the refugees.”
What do we have to improve in the future to avoid
today’s problems?
“We believe that distributive justice is increasingly
scarce; if we all do an examination of conscience we
would understand that justice begins in every home
where people have and want more than necessary, so
others get them less than essential to live.”

9. BLOG PINOR
We found a volunteers who were able to tell us their story and
moreover how they decided to become a volunteer.
“I could not explain very well why, but being a volunteer is something
nice and always brings you more than you do. You can know
people who strive for a common cause, in which you believe blindly,
because you would not be there If you did not do it. And among
other things, you will get hook. You see light in a world that often cast
only darkness. I decided to volunteer in Greece because many
in the Middle East are living a real drama and the European Union,
many Europeans, have started to see it, after when we had it here
around us and when the mass media have begun to show it. The war
Afghanistan began more than 15 years ago, but it is further away
Europe than Syria, so because of this, the refugees find it harder to
reach European land, which is resulting in less information coverage,
fewer volunteers and fewer resources to accompany them. There are
many dramas around the world that do not reach us for lack of
coverage or simply because we are not interested to know about
but with this problem we have no choice continuing in the same way
because they are already here.”

10. If you could summarize your experience into a main lesson you have learned
what would you like to share from it with the other people?
“Most of these people want to live in the same place where they were born, in
their home, with their people. They do not want to come here and take our jobs,
they are not calling for our help, nor anything else. They just want to live in peace
in their tiny patch of land, it doesn’t matter if it`s the coldest, the most arid in the
world or the ugliest, because it is their home. And remember, everything adds

11. BLOG PINOR
We interviewed Magda from Greece, volunteer in a refugee
camp.
“When the refugees started to come in my country, they
gathered all in Idomeni, an area near the borders with
FYROM. It was a very awful place, all of them were living in
tents during the winter. Our group (Kyriotissa’s Utopia) went
there in March 2016, our objective was to collect food and
other necessary things and to give it to the refugees… It was
a very touching and unforgettable experience…
After this experience I wanted to become a volunteer and
help these people. Some days later, we learned that a
camp near our city will host refugees and I was so happy
I could go and help them! ”

12. BLOG PINOR
We interviewed different NGOs operating in other countries about their work in the field of
refugees and migration.
What do we have to improve in the future to avoid today’s problems?
“Migrants will continue coming, it does not matter if there are deals that try to stop them.
They left their country, lived so many difficulties that even if a weaker flux is possible,
will really stop them. We should try to avoid the death on the Mediterranean Sea, and for
reason it would be better to build humanitarian cordons to try to reduce the deaths. The
other important aspect concerns integration. All EU countries should make an effort in
to guarantee the integration of people, because lack of integration means no future: it
drug addiction, prostitution, criminality. And they are more dangerous and expensive than
integration. There are good examples of successful integration stories at local level so we all
know it is possible.”

13. If you have a message for Europe what you want to say?
“The message to EU is especially one: EU institutions have to be
closer to reality, have to speak with people, NGOs working
personally on the field and that, for this reason, have to face the
difficulties of the ground. Otherwise the risk is to take decisions
that does not take into account the real situation and that, for
reason, can be very dangerous.”

14. BLOG PINOR
Our friend Mery shared with us how is the Life in Ovcha Kupel, refugee camp in Sofia (Bulgaría).
“Just passing near the refugee camp in Ovcha Kupel Bulgaria is kind of scary and makes you turn
your head the other way. I think this is part of the reason why not many people have visited or
any information about the life inside the walls. Entering the building – the first thing you feel is
misery, coldness and sadness in a way. The way everything looks is like abandoned and lost life.
there is no tomorrow in a way. And that is the worst thing, because all of those people, came here
order to find a better tomorrow for themselves. At the end of the day, at least there are no bombs
going over their heads, but still, is this life some would ask? So the life in the refugee camp is not
real life. It is more like a competition for survival, you know like the ones on TV. So the life is simple
and miserable in the same way – you have a roof over your head and some kind of bed, you get
food and if you are lucky enough medical care and vaccines. This is if you arrive at the right time.
not you just wait. Most rooms are super basic, but that is what you get here.”

15. PINOR SURVEY ON REFUGEES CRISIS
AWARENESS IN CIVIL SOCIETY
We were interested to know more about the
crisis awareness in civil society and we
created a survey which results helped us to
produce a new knowledge and gived us
more information which keep helping us to
raise awareness on migration issues, human
rights and integration strategies.

16. #PINOR
“Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.”
“Seeking asylum is a human right!”
“No human being is illegal!” #PINOR