The Corona pandemic is catastrophic for refugees living in Greece in overcrowded camps or even on the street. We are providing emergency response funding. We need your help!
The Help a Hero program supports key long-term volunteers who ensure continuity and growth in humanitarian projects. While most volunteers only stay a week, these long-term experts effectively use all these volunteers’ presence and optimize project impact.
We are providing weekly food and other basic needs items to undocumented refugees in Amsterdam since September 2016. Due to the corona pandemic, the demand has increased steeply.
Tuesday 9 March 2021 19:07
Remember this: Because of Covid, 1.000+ babies are growing today in Amsterdam, in such poverty that their parents depend on food aid and cannot afford basic hygiene items!!!!! Together with the Red Cross, we bought nearly 200.000 diapers to keep them dry!
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Sunday 28 February 2021 18:45
Winters in Northern Greece are harsh, temperature drops below zero with strong winds. This person is undocumented, the asylum offices are closed. He lives (among many) in abandoned train wagons in Thessaloniki. Wave - Thessaloniki is the only chance to get anything at the moment. They supply many of these people with sleeping bags, thermal underwear and a warm meal.
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Monday 8 February 2021 18:06
This is what we supplied since last March, to the projects distributing food to families deprived of their income by the Covid crisis in Amsterdam. We currently weekly deliver 2.800 packages, that is between 25 and 30 tons of food each week!
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Friday 29 January 2021 00:00
We are very proud to support the Jepi Makandra ,(Help each other’s in Surinam language), project from the two awesome Claire Wie and Micha Puma. Not only do they support 100 families deprived of their income by the Covid pandemic with weekly food packages, but they also advise them on how to cook the less familiar vegetables they distribute. Who knew that chicory could be delicious?????
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