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Please help me to fund my continuing work with Samos Volunteers – a inspirational voluntary organisation that works with refugees living in horrendous conditions in the Camp on the Greek island of Samos .
I have already completed two self funded visits in the last year and am planning to return at Christmas when volunteer numbers are always low and Winter conditions in the Camp are desperate. In order to do this I will need funding. Each 5 week trip costs approximately £2000 and the funds I raise will help to pay for flights, an extremely cheap hotel/apartment, food, and the cheapest possible car hire. A car will enable me to teach vulnerable isolated families who live in shelters outside the Camp and further afield.
There are currently 2500 people living in a Camp designed for 700. Families of 6 and more living in tiny pop-up tents and under tarpaulins. Conditions are desperate with soaring temperatures, severe shortages of water, very little medical help and a high incidence of mental health problems especially amongst orphans and children who are severely traumatised by their experiences. They feel we have forgotten about them. They feel no-one cares.
Samos Volunteers’ Alpha Centre in Samos town offers a warm welcome to all, a haven away from the Camp where everyone can relax, chat, drink tea, play chess and backgammon or take advantage of the many informal lessons and activities on offer. The organisation, funded by donations, is run entirely by volunteers and we are asked to commit to a minimum stay of 6 weeks – many stay much longer. It can be very expensive.
So far, I have taught English, French, basic Greek and Cooking. I have sorted clothes in the warehouse, served endless cups of tea in the Camp, spent precious hours talking with people from all over the world, and cooked Saturday Night Dinner for 60 Unaccompanied Minors in a domestic oven with no shelves (SV works on a very very tight budget!) The high spot of my last visit was learning to dance Dabkhe with my Womens Activities class. They love to dance, have a laugh and fool around. They’re so funny!
Refugees are people just like us, suffering these appalling conditions by an unlucky accident of birth. They are doing everything they can to make a better life for their families and children. Their courage, good humour and stoicism is heroic. Please check out our great website and videos www.samosvolunteers.org for details of all the activities and projects Samos Volunteers can offer them.
Please help us to help them. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. Any help you are able to give will be very much appreciated.
Please help me to fund my continuing work with Samos Volunteers – a inspirational voluntary organisation that works with refugees living in horrendous conditions in the Camp on the Greek island of Samos .
I have already completed two self funded visits in the last year and am planning to return at Christmas when volunteer numbers are always low and Winter conditions in the Camp are desperate. In order to do this I will need funding. Each 5 week trip costs approximately £2000 and the funds I raise will help to pay for flights, an extremely cheap hotel/apartment, food, and the cheapest possible car hire. A car will enable me to teach vulnerable isolated families who live in shelters outside the Camp and further afield.
There are currently 2500 people living in a Camp designed for 700. Families of 6 and more living in tiny pop-up tents and under tarpaulins. Conditions are desperate with soaring temperatures, severe shortages of water, very little medical help and a high incidence of mental health problems especially amongst orphans and children who are severely traumatised by their experiences. They feel we have forgotten about them. They feel no-one cares.
Samos Volunteers’ Alpha Centre in Samos town offers a warm welcome to all, a haven away from the Camp where everyone can relax, chat, drink tea, play chess and backgammon or take advantage of the many informal lessons and activities on offer. The organisation, funded by donations, is run entirely by volunteers and we are asked to commit to a minimum stay of 6 weeks – many stay much longer. It can be very expensive.
So far, I have taught English, French, basic Greek and Cooking. I have sorted clothes in the warehouse, served endless cups of tea in the Camp, spent precious hours talking with people from all over the world, and cooked Saturday Night Dinner for 60 Unaccompanied Minors in a domestic oven with no shelves (SV works on a very very tight budget!) The high spot of my last visit was learning to dance Dabkhe with my Womens Activities class. They love to dance, have a laugh and fool around. They’re so funny!
Refugees are people just like us, suffering these appalling conditions by an unlucky accident of birth. They are doing everything they can to make a better life for their families and children. Their courage, good humour and stoicism is heroic. Please check out our great website and videos www.samosvolunteers.org for details of all the activities and projects Samos Volunteers can offer them.
Please help us to help them. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. Any help you are able to give will be very much appreciated.
Organizer
Pam Gregory
Organizer