Tag: Refugees
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Abandoned life jackets in Lesbos giving new hope to refugees
Jai Mexis and his partner Irene Psifidi returned home to Greece after university in the UK with a desire to help and have founded Odyssea. It is an NGO which aims to find a long term solution to the thousands of abandoned life jackets. “The whole story started very spontaneously, when I visited Lesbos. I tried to find…
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Three Greek photographers on Thomson Reuters team to win Pulitzer Prize
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Greek family opens it home to Syrian refugee families
As soon as Dimitris Spiridis arrived with a huge bag of croissants to hand out to migrants living in a sprawling border camp at Idomeni, he decided that he needed to do more to help. “There was rain and fog. The only thing you could hear at eight in the morning was tears and coughing,”…