Tag Archives: volunteers

The third vessel in the last 48 hours, carrying 67 migrants of various nationalities was located early Thursday at Limnionas on the island of Kythera early Thursday morning. Three Turkish nationals have been arrested as alleged human traffickers. Together with another 166 migrants, mainly from Afghanistan who arrived on Wednesday, …

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Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed the country’s appreciation for the help Austrian volunteer firefighters and other volunteers provided with the multiple fires in Greece, on Monday. Sakellaropoulou is in Austria to attend the European Alpbach Forum and met at Innsbruck with a group of volunteer firefighters. She told them that …

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Thousands of wildlife, farming animals, pets, stray cats and dogs were burned to death or injured at the forest fire on Gerania Mountains and West Attica last week. Volunteers who went there to help found a landscape of horror, while the government and the mainstream media cheered that there were …

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The money raised by a fundraiser with the aim to search for the then missing Suzanne Eaton will be distributed to those who helped the search, the family of the brutally murdered US biologist on the island of Crete, has decided. According to Eaton’s family wish, the raised money of …

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Athens Homeless help their fire-stricken fellowmen in East Attica. The volunteers groups of the Equal Society NGO has moved to the town of Rafina where a logistics center to distribute donated aid to the local population has been set up.  The group consists mainly of homeless people, those who do …

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A criminal court on the island of Lesvos acquitted three Spanish firefighters members of the NGO Proem-Aid, and two Danes of Arab descent, members of the NGO Team Humanity on Monday. In a session that lasted nine hours the court acquitted the NGO members and ordered return of the bail. …

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Sea Rescuer volunteers from the Greek Red Cross had to intervene and rescue an elderly dog from a trap: he had found himself on the rocky sea mole at the Marina of Patras, North-West Peloponnese. For some unknown reason, the dog found himself in the sea and had swam approximately …

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The Municipality of Mandra in West Attica has issued a call for help for the flood victims. Food, drinking water, medicine, clothing and footwear but also sleeping bags and blankets are needed for the thousands of families affected by the floods, exposed in cold and decreasing temperatures in houses and …

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Are you currently a volunteer working with refugees in Greece or Portugal? Do you want to know how to prevent burn-out, develop professional skills and  process with work efficiency? For the second year volunteers and front line workers working with refugees have the opportunity to receive pro-bono support from professional …

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Are you currently a volunteer working for the refugees in Athens or elsewhere in Greece? Would you be interested in receiving pro-bono support from professional coaches? Do you want to learn how to prevent burn-out, how to develop professional skills and process with work efficiency? The CoachActivism Project is a professional …

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Sixteen volunteers have been briefly detained at Idomeni on Tuesday as Greek police tries to find out who incites refugees and migrants to cross the closed borders of neighboring FYROM. With enhanced controls on the roads leading to Idomeni camp, Greek police units have been doing paper controls and search …

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This is an urgent appeal by the Pan Piraiki Initiative Group of volunteers assisting refugees and migrants arriving at the port of Piraeus on daily basis. Today, Monday, February 29th 2016, there are more than 2,000 people, children, women, men, elderly awaiting to leave for the borders. They cannot. FYROM …

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It was an unbelievable journey for a cat. Kunkush, a male white beauty, a Turkish Van breed, left the war-battled of Northern Iraq, crossed Turkey, sailed with a boat to the Greek island of Lesvos, flew to Berlin and stayed in a foster home, hoping to find again his family. …

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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Greek island of Lesvos in 2015, left behind mountains of life-jackets. The orange life-savers have been abandoned at the beaches or waste dumps, dissolving extremely slowly and polluting the environment. But the volunteers operating on Lesvos had a brilliant idea …

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Portuguese and Syrian volunteers are currently in Athens offering a helping hand to refugees and migrants trapped in the ice-cold Greek capital. The six volunteers flew from Lisbon to Athens right after Christmas and landed in an ice-cold city with hundreds of people sleeping outdoors. The article was submitted by …

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An incredible tragedy with unbelievable scenes is currently taking place off the island of Rhodes in south-eastern Greece, with dozens of migrants jumping into the sea in front of the eyes of stunned locals and tourists. Just 50 meter away from the Zefiry beach, a sailing boat packed with dozens …

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This year Santa Claus will be dressed in purple. The color of Stray.gr,  the Non-profit-organization for the Protection and Care of Strays (Stray.gr). Lots of new and used -but in good condition – items, educational activities for the children and lottery will be offered during the annual Christmas Bazaar for …

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