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Mother and son, finally reunited!

After more than three months apart staying at different hospitals in Athens, Bayan and her 2 year old son, “heartbreaker” Bahez are finally reunited. 

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Nickie and Jeppe – Home is where the other is

We have the worlds best coordinators and volunteers and we would like to present som of them.

Nickie Mariager-Lam is has just finished one period as the Drop in the Ocean coordinator on Chios and by her side she had her husband Jeppe Mariager-Lam. They are both great representatives from Denmark. 

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Distributing with dignity in mind

After several cold and windy days, our distribution of men’s and women’s clothing this week in Souda camp took place in pleasant sunshine. The activity, during which underwear, scarves and jerseys for around 120 women and sweatpants for several hundred men were handed out, went on for two days.

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Every “drop” counts!

A drop in the Ocean depends on support from both private actors and business sponsors to continue relief work in refugee camps in Greece. We are very grateful for all contributions, large and small.

 

One of our supporters are Go`e Bussa AS, a Norwegian transport company that specialize in providing safe and secure transport for all passengers.

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A Skaramangas Sojourn – a guest blog by Nidhi Sudhan

Early this year, I took a sabbatical from work after 15 years, to travel. Although I have been to Greece earlier and come to love everything about it, this time Greece warmed my heart a little more by the way it has opened its arms to refugees of one of the largest humanitarian crises, despite it’s own ongoing economic crunch. The ongoing refugee crisis has been making me very uneasy for a while now.

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