Updates and field stories

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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2016 – The “annus horribilis” is at the end

Yet another year has passed, and I find myself reflecting- as I sit here, safe and sound, surrounded by close family and friends in a cozy, Christmas decorated house in the south of Norway.

2016 has been a year where everything has passed at an incredible pace. At the start of the year, there were still work to be done along the beaches of Lesvos and Chios – and this was the top priority for A Drop in the Ocean.

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Children helping children!

In December we have seen a lot of people who want to contribute to the ones who have left everything behind. Nothing is more touching than seeing children who want to do something helping others. 

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