Araqa Collective

Lebanon

Araqa Collective empowers marginalised communities through art education and culture. We want to inspire vulnerable populations in their efforts to be resilient regardless of the difficulties that they face. We are setting up a range of workshops and art programs so that students can learn new techniques, express themselves creatively and improve their overall quality of life.

Auberge des Migrants

France

Since 2008, L’Auberge Des Migrants has been working with refugees and displaced people in Calais and Northern France, providing food and material assistance, support and advocacy. Our objective is to provide emergency material aid, but also to promote the dignity of people in exile through our actions.

Blindspots

Bosnia, Serbia, Ukraine

Blindspots operates at the EU borders and Ukraine, supporting People on the Move and other humans. We provide fire wood, ovens and hygienic goods with local partner organizations. We monitor border violence, educate and create film documentaries.#solidaritywithoutborders
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Boxtribute

Europe and Lebanon

Boxtribute is an open source web-app which empowers our partners in the field to deliver humanitarian aid quickly, fairly and with freedom of choice. Donations from this campaign will cover our running costs so we can keep it affordable and also improve the technology we create and maintain.

Calais Food Collective

France

We work in Calais to ensure that displaced people stuck, often for many months in Calais, are able to cook for themselves. As well as it being essential to nourish yourself, the ability to cook has great psychological and communal advantages during a mentally and physically challenging time.

Distribute Aid

Worldwide

By donating to Distribute Aid, you are supporting +150 community-based relief efforts worldwide. Our team is dedicated to ensuring the global mutual aid network has access to vital resources to meet the needs of the communities they serve. Support us today, so communities are prepared for tomorrow.

Endless Medical Advantage

Lebanon

We work in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, to provide essential health aid and services to Syrian refugees. We run two mobile clinics which support children and adults in need medical assistance. From scrapes, infections, pre-natal advice and broken bones, we are here to support vulnerable families. We also run a dental clinic and physio treatments which serve over 500 people every month.

Eudaimonia Medical Services

Greece

Eudaimonia Medical Services is a non-profit organizations that provides medical case management and interpretation support for refugees in Greece. We focus on identifying gaps left by other systems or actors and seek to bridge these to connect vulnerable people with the healthcare they must access. In practice, this means providing interpretation, translation, emergency accommodation, medical procedures, and transportation for patients.

Europe Cares e.V.

Greece

People on Lesvos have been living under horrible conditions for years. With our Community Center "Paréa Lesvos", we offer people a welcoming and safe place. Together with our partners, we distribute daily lunches, run a wash center as well as a free shop, provide legal and psychological support and offer language classes as well as various activities like film classes, sport activities and gardening. Please support us to keep our doors open!

Europe Must Act

Europe

Europe Must Act is a growing grassroots movement that brings together volunteers, people on the move and NGOs campaigning to end human rights abuses at our borders and increase relocation within Europe. Through local action in cities across Europe and grassroots advocacy at our borders, we aim to influence European migration policy.

The Fáilte Centre

Greece

The Fáilte Centre takes its name from “Fáilte,” the Irish word for “welcome.” Fáilte (pronounced FAHL-chuh) emphasises our core approach: we welcome all individuals regardless of age, gender, background, nationality, political orientation or religion. Our mission at The Fáilte Centre is to provide both individualised learning opportunities as well as mental health & psychosocial support (MHPSS) services in a welcoming and caring environment.

forRefugees

UK, Europe

At forRefugees our vision is humanity, not hostility, for refugees. As long as hostility continues we will be here - uniquely dedicated to supporting small refugee charities in Europe each meeting essential human needs of vulnerable men, women and children RIGHT NOW. We provide our trusted network with emergency grants, umbrella charity services, and more. We regularly volunteer on the ground seeing first hand the impact of our work along every part of the refugee journey through Europe.

The Free Shop

Lebanon

A clothes shop where everything is for free! The Free Shop is run day-.to-day by an incredible team of six Syrian refugees. We see between 75-100 families a week, and families can choose the items they like and want: just like a real shop. We support Lebanese and refugee families with clothes shoes, menstrual pads, nappies, kitchen items, bedding and more. We also run individual case support (food packs) and share the joys of sustainable menstrual products with local women. In the photo you can see Tahani (L) and Dalaal (R) in The Free Shop.

Goodwill Caravan

Greece

Goodwill Caravan is a non-profit humanitarian charity and NGO that covers refugee protection projects including emergency aid distributions, sheltering the most vulnerable, legal and medical support for refugees in Greece. We focus particularly on vulnerable refugee families, lone women and single mothers, detained and unaccompanied children; those who are at the highest risk of trafficking, sexual exploitation and GBV.

Greenhouse for All

Lebanon

We have two missions:
1. Support the self-sufficiency of people in vulnerable situations in an organic way.
2. Teach Arabic to 91 kids who have never attended school.

Haddak

Haddak is a humanitarian initiative that supports vulnerable people in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Our locally-employed team visits families, sits with them, listens to them and overall builds a good relationship with them. Families visited are supported with food parcels, medicines, fuel and hot meals.

The Health Impact

Lebanon

The Health Impact works to enhance the daily health, quality of life, dignity, and autonomy of vulnerable families in Lebanon through health promotion workshops, psychosocial support programming, and hygiene supply support.

Human Rights Legal Project

HRLP works to defend the dignity and fundamental rights of refugees and international protection applicants within the EU, and at its borders, by providing legal assistance, and pursuing strategic action to hold authorities and institutions to account. Cases taken by HRLP include, ‘pushbacks’, border violence, criminalisation of migration, denial of access to healthcare, and unlawful detention.

Lighthouse Relief

With reduced housing and food assistance for refugees and asylum seekers, thousands of people seeking international protection in Greece struggle to cover their basic needs. Many experience homelessness or live under precarious conditions in deteriorating camps or undignified urban settings without the means to put food on the table. These are the men, women, and children whom we support. Can we count on you to stand with us in solidarity with them?

Na’amal

Na’amal addresses the remote talent tech needs of companies by providing access to skilled
refugee candidates. Na’amal provides refugees and other underrepresented communities
training in marketable skills, with a focus on the human/soft skills, collaborating with
organisations that train in digital skills, which are required in the global labour market. We then link them to dignified digital remote work.

Pachamama Project

UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East

The Pachamama Project is a not for profit growing a global network of volunteers who sew reusable sanitary pads for refugees and vulnerable communities. The pads are washable and last up to five years making them a sustainable solution for people who cannot afford or access sanitary products, providing dignity, and allowing people to get on with their daily activity.

Pads4Refugees

Worldwide

Our mission is to support the dignity of refugee and migrant women and girls by providing feminine hygiene products in refugee camps. We currently have several recurring projects in Lebanon and Greece and have delivered pads in other locations including Uganda, Mexico, Moldova, Poland, Ukraine, and various locations throughout the US. .

Project Play

France

Project Play was founded in August 2018 by volunteers working in northern France to support displaced communities sleeping in informal camps. Project Play has worked with hundreds of children and run, on average, six sessions every week. We have welcomed and said goodbye to dozens of talented volunteers with a range of skills and expertise.

Refugee Biryani and Bananas

Greece

Refugee Biriyani & Bananas (RBB) supports vulnerable people worldwide residing in refugee/displaced peoples camps, squats or other unstable settlements and acute crisis zones. RBB support ranges from basic emergency aid and necessities (food, water, shelter, medical supplies, clothes) to more long term support such as advocacy for people facing displacement, including those incarcerated.

Refugee Community Kitchen

France

Refugee Community Kitchen is both a French association and a UK charity committed to serving highly nutritious and culturally familiar food to those fleeing war, poverty, persecution and climate change living in Calais, Grande Synthe and the UK.

Refugee Info Bus

France

Since 2016, Info Bus has gained expertise on facilitating information and internet access as a fundamental pillar of rights for refugees and asylum seekers. Our team of 6 volunteers in Calais, together with our close-knit group of cultural mediators and translators, regularly produce and update vital information packs in Amharic, Arabic, Farsi/Dari, Oromo, Pashto, Tigrinya, Sorani, French and English. In a month we provide power and internet for over 80 hours in the field, charge over 3000 devices, distribute 520 cables, 2050 sim cards and 150 information guides.

Refugee Women’s Centre

France

Refugee Women's Centre has existed in Grande-Synthe since 2015, and became a registered French association in April 2017. Our work consists of providing the people we support with their most essential needs, accompanying their administrative procedures and assisting them in claiming their rights (including medical care, housing, and legal advice).

Tools for Inner Peace

Lebanon

We share the tools of yoga with refugees so they can deal with stress, trauma and regain emotional control back over their lives. In all places where we work, we train refugees and asylum seerkers to become qualified yoga trainers so they can also share the tools they have learnt with others in their community. In Lebanon and Sierra Leone, we also distribute food and provide access to medical care when needed.

Utopia56

France

Utopia 56 is an association created in November 2015 in Brittany to supervise the voluntary work which was then deployed in the jungle of Calais. With 24/7 actions in the field, more than 200 volunteers are mobilized every day for distribution maraudes, information maraudes and solidarity accommodation, in Calais, Grande-Synthe, Lille , Paris, Rennes, Toulouse and Tours.

The Workshop

Serbia

The Workshop is an educational hub in central Belgrade where refugees can learn English and Serbian for free in a safe, welcoming, and independent environment. Through our student-led curriculum and Serbia-wide sporting outreach program, The Workshop gives refugees the skills, agency, and cultural empowerment they need to thrive, not just survive.

Yoga and Sports with Refugees

Greece & France

Yoga and Sport With Refugees (YSR) was born in October 2017 on the island of Lesvos, Greece, in response to the massive need for healthy safe spaces, the sense of community and a place to work on mental and physical health. In September 2020, we expanded to Athens, we started Habibi and Sport with Refugees in Ioannina in 2021 and in 2022 we began our project in Paris. Every day we offer more than 20 different sports activities to approximately 400 people. Our model is unique with over 70 of our past and current coaches coming from a refugee background.