We would like to wish all our supporters warm greetings from our team here on Lesvos and in Zurich as the new year beginns. We hope you are all well despite another year full of challenges. Our sewing project had a slow start to the year with the Greek lockdown until June meaning we only […]
Since our Media Manager, Beth, finished her six months of much appreciated work and left our team to go back home, we are forming our new team on Lesvos. There will be an update in the upcoming week. This newblog will give a monthly update about the situation in Lesvos, political developments, the effects on […]
Tila and Marzia are our two wonderful sewing tailors who teach the BagforEveryone sewing classes at OpenSpace, the community hub of our partner Starfish Foundation. We are especially pleased to have had classes back up and running for the past few months after lengthy disruptions caused by Covid-19 restrictions which were finally relaxed in June […]
In August, Greece was experiencing the worst heatwave in over 30 years. Temperatures have soared to over 40 degrees, wildfires have spread across the mainland, and thousands of people living in Greece have had to evacuate their homes. Our thoughts are with the firefighters tackling the blazes, the Greek community, and those living within refugee […]
Whilst I was in Lesvos, I met a young Afghan refugee named Sara who had the idea to make bags from leftover donated clothes and fabrics. I brought her idea to the women’s shelter where I was working at the time, and together with Sara, we worked on the project until I had to return […]
