08/08/2022
Since its launch in 2015, Red Umbrella Athens, the first sex worker empowerment centre in Greece, has received more than 5,500 visits and has offered 2,400 counselling sessions with a psychologist, 310 meetings with a lawyer, 290 meetings with a social worker, 1,700 HIV tests, 1,500 hepatitis C tests, 1,500 hepatitis B tests, 250 syphilis tests, 120,000 condoms and 1,200 safer use kits.
Our aim is the further enhancement of these services in Athens and Thessaloniki – with the recent launch of Red Umbrella Thess – but also to go one step further by providing training seminars in the community for professionals/service providers and psychology students, meetings with institutional stakeholders in order to promote our agenda, job-market integration projects, conducting research on stealthing (non-consensual condom removal during sex) and public awareness campaigns.