There’s no such thing as an unskilled volunteer. It seems like an appropriate discussion for my final volunteering post. In line with the five previous posts in the ‘Volunteering with Refugees’ series, I had hoped to write my last post about the Get Shit Done Team, who carry out essential construction work in Refugee Camps […]
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Volunteering with Refugees in Northern Greece 5: The Mobile Info Team
I met the Mobile Info Team on my first day volunteering in Northern Greece and was instantly impressed. I was helping out with Echo Mobile Library at Diavata refugee camp when a car pulled up and out clambered a team of smiley faces. I guess the smiles help in their work. The Mobile Info Team […]
Volunteering With Refugees in Northern Greece 4: The Food Project
Just how do you spend €20,000 a month on vegetables? Simple. You manage The Food Project working with refugees in Thessaloniki. That figure shoots quickly up to €70,000 once you add in the dried food that the project also supply. The initiative started as a means of addressing some of the nutritional deficiencies of the […]
Volunteering with Refugees in Northern Greece 3: Echo Mobile Library
Before I ever arrived in Greece, I knew I wanted to volunteer with the Echo Mobile Library. I’d come across them on Facebook and instantly loved the idea of a mobile library visiting the refugee camps of Northern Greece. I ended up spending two weeks helping out, teaching English classes and learning about education services […]
Volunteering with Refugees in Northern Greece: Help Refugees
It looks like any other warehouse in the greater Thessaloniki area; drab, dreary and really quite dull. If you read Greek, you’d be forgiven for thinking you might pick up a bargain on your industrial furniture or carpets. The signage is outdated and it seems as if the building hasn’t had much love in a […]
First Impressions: Thessaloniki and Northern Greece
If first impressions really lasted, then I would have left Thessaloniki almost as soon as I arrived. I guess it was always going to be tough to follow on from my Macedonian experience. I was genuinely sad to leave Skopje and had toyed with the idea of staying even longer, but enough was enough. It […]