Support for Moria White Helmets (self-organised refugee group at Lesvos)

Moria White Helmets is a self-organized refugee group, with a mission that the refugees living in the camp on Lesvos, Greece can participate in solving and improving their own conditions and to create a feeling of everyday life for the approximately 2,300 asylum seekers (primarily families with children) who are in the camp.

The project model of Moria White Helmets is simple;

1. All members of Moria White Helmets must be, or have been, asylum seekers.

2. All forms of service through projects by MWH are free and available to all asylum seekers.

3. In exchange for their participation, MWH's members receive food vouchers, cash cards and similar services that contribute to meeting basic needs. Everything donated will exclusively go towards enabling MWH to continue their projects!

Summary of MWH's current projects;

Moria White Helmets has been keeping a focus on climate protection and environment since 2020. For cleaning rubbish they received a formal thank you from the local authorities, which developed into a formal collaboration. Later, a larger recycling project consisting of plastic recycling. 

In the new camp Mavrovouni/Kara Tepe, asylum seekers with professions such as electricians and engineers assisted the camp management's technical team with electrical work. The collaboration was established at the end of November 2020, when winter was approaching and the refugees had not yet had their tents connected to electricity. This work still continues and the electrical team is out both night and day to ensure that all tents have power. The same applies to other types of engineers and craftsmen for other types of construction.

Barbershop for men for hair and beards.

Beauty shop for women for hair, nails etc.

Tailor shop where seamstresses can repair and adjust garments and textiles.

Bicycle workshop to adjust and fix bicycles.

A workshop consisting of tools that can be used for construction.

MWH assists newly arrived refugees. This is a collaboration with other organizations, such as the Hope Project, to be able to assist newly arrived refugees in the camp with whatever they need in terms of clothing, advice and guidance.

Informal education for children with a focus on music, culture and language. Here the children are introduced to both the Latin alphabet through English and German language classes, but also the Arabic/Persian alphabet. For many parents, the latter is the most important, as their children can speak the language, but have not learned to read and write it.