Pervolarides Thessalonikis

Pervolarides Thessalonikis is a growing grassroots voluntary movement for social mobilisation and cooperative actions in Greece. It unites locals and refugees and builds resilience for its community and vulnerable people through solidarity and social actions.

Activities have included:

  • Urban food cultivation as an approach to fight depression and to support people who were losing their jobs from the economic crisis.
  • A beekeeping project initiated at the start of the refugee crisis in 2015, which Syrian refugees joined.
  • Bringing together locals and refugees for community cooking, food waste reclamation and distribution, as well as production of tomato sauce, jams and pickles.

Through the evolution of relations and networks, Pervolarides Thessalonikis progressively established a holistic regeneration approach based on the relations that form throughout the food cycle. From seeding, cultivation, crop collection, processing and cooking, to reclaiming, reprocessing and redistributing food that would be wasted.

Pervolarides Thessalonikis creates democratic hubs where people of all ages, ethnicities and social status come together to express freely and equally, to co-create with their neighbours and to collectively offer support and resources to those in need. Here, abilities, ideas and resources unite and form dynamic social actions and strong supportive networks, empowering people to overcome exclusion and discrimination and to heal from divisions and inequalities.

  • Community, Food
  • 2025
  • Established Projects
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