Sharing street talk found all over Lesvos Island.

Yesterday I began volunteering for Nikos and Katerina’s Home For All NGO. They are a beautiful couple who have been feeding, clothing abd providing a respite for refugees since the crisis began here on Lesvos in 2015. Yesterday, although a day off at Home For All, we unloaded a huge truckful of donated new sleeping bags. We enjoyed a lunch together by the sea, then made dinner meals which we delivered to the volunteer nurses and doctors volunteering inside Moria refugee camp. Today will be a much fuller day. Here is a video showing Nikos & Katerina: https://youtu.be/6zwckpUHUfE

I wanted to thank you for all of your electronics donations. Today I gave one of the phones to a refugee and he literally started crying and got down on his knees in appreciation. He also asked to say thank you in a video (attached). A phone or laptop is a lifeline to refugees. Also this young girl (age 17 from Afghanistan and without family here) was crying on the road. I picked her up, took her for tea to talk (I thought she may have been raped or attacked inside the refugee camp…very common occurrence here), but she had had her phone stolen (a phone here is a lifeline…

Spending the first days with Charlotte Knox at One Happy Family (a community center here in Mitilini for refugees…offering food, education, legal and medical services). Charlotte is providing teacher training for the center’s teachers, most who are refugees themselves. Very enthusiastic and motivated teachers, from Ghana, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria.

We cannot thank you all enough for your generous donations to help the refugees stuck in camps abroad.  Because of wars,  religious persecution (from Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, Daesh, Taliban) as well as climate induced droughts, people are fleeing for their lives…leaving everything they have to save themselves, their families and futures.  They have nothing but the clothes on their backs and hope for a better life.   Your generous donation means so much…it is a gesture of compassion and kindness in a world that has left them abandoned.  Thank you.

Help for Refugees of Moria Camp Moria Camp is Europe’s largest camp, noted by BBC to be the “worst in the world.” Sponsored by Lexine Alpert and Charlotte Knox. Please help for this critical fundraiser. All proceeds will be used to support the needs of refugees in this horrific camp. Lexine spent two months in the Fall 2018 teaching unaccompanied minors at Moria Camp.  She will be returning there in April for two months to provide training for the English schools, as well as help support refugees with food, toiletries, clothing, transportation to medical/legal appointments, and cell phone access.  Lexine will be volunteering at One Happy Family in Lesvos and…