The Blog
Journals and stories from our time giving aid.
The cupboard is bare
Making the trip to deliver your donations is always a pleasure and taking a big van full to the rafters with sleeping bags makes everyone smile. Photo from inside the van while emerging onto...
Festival Excitement
Most people who go to festivals get excited because their favourite band is playing or they are expecting to have a good time with their mates. Not us we get excited because there might be a spare...
Knickers, Knickers, Knickers and Bras
Imagine only having one pair of knickers and living in a field for the foreseeable future. Imagine you can only access a shower in that field once a month. No one in this day and age should have to...
Clashes at the Idomeni Camp borders at FYROM
Yesterday, following yet another rumour the borders would open, hundreds of families packed their bags and prepared to pass from Idomeni into FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) border of...
Tear gas, babies and bananas
10.4.16 at the Greek Macedonian, FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) border this morning 11.45. Members of our team are volunteering here today. We were out with team banana in the...
It’s all about cling film and last minute pant purchases
Who knew cling film is the essential element to shipping boxes of aid, We have dragged our half height pallets outside into the car park built them to full capacity and set to wrap them in cling...
The doors are too short
The most important thing we learned this week is that when you fill a pallet to its height capacity it won’t fit through the door of our new warehouse, oops. In between waving off the van to Calais...
Its all about the pallets and sleeping bags
When we set off on our family holiday to Lesvos this summer I never thought it would lead us to becoming sleeping bag shippers. With your help, donating money to pay for survival bags, donating much...
The big donation
Since returning from Lesbos in the summer the trustees have been in constant awe of the work being undertaken by the volunteers in Greece. Driven by their dedication and guided by their knowledge on...