In 2015, 856,000 people passed through the Greek islands, and in 2017 and 2018 only just under 30 thousand (according to UNHCR). But 2019 brought already a growth – over 60,000 newcomers. Today, boats coming to Greek beaches are back again, and practice shows that you can get stuck in Lesbos for a good few years. Nikos and Katerina run a small restaurant on the island, where every refugee can feel at home and eat a meal for free.
15.06.2023
Today, several hundred people who we would have loved to feed and hug will be missing from our table. They drowned yesterday.
One of the biggest rescue missions in history is underway in the Ionian Sea. 79 victims and more than a hundred survivors, but according to witnesses there could have been up to 750 people on the boat, including more than 100 children.
Katerina and Nikos have been reaching out for eight years to those who would find it difficult to get back up on their feet without help. For many people who have been humiliated in their homelands and terrified by war, persecution and hunger, their first moment of respite in months is this table, a warm meal and hospitality at Home for All. Here they feel they finally don’t have to flee from anyone.
It’s time that instead of talking about our humanity, we also show it. No one deserves to die in the forest or at sea just because they have nowhere else to go. Help us create a unique Home for All environment on the Greek island of Lesbos.
20.06.2024
A refugee I am Forced to flee, I become someone I am not These few lines from a Lao Che song have been on my mind all morning. The World Refugee Day, which we celebrate today, could easily be called World Day of Helplessness, Lack of Solidarity, Fences, Barriers, and Lack of Hospitality. “In Nigeria, […]
27.08.2023
The unpaved road stretches for kilometres and winds down the mountainous slopes. It cuts through bone-dry pine forests. From here to Mitylena, the island’s capital, it is more than 40 kilometres. To any sign of civilisation – more than 10. Out of sight, out of mind of all outsiders, a gigantic new refugee camp is […]
14.08.2023
Onur was a baker in Kurdistan. He is not afraid of any job. Stately, broad-shouldered, hands like vices. They have strength and feel. He arrived in Lesbos eight years ago. Abdul got off the boat on a Greek beach a year later. In Syria, he was a mechanic. He has fixed up his decrepit old […]
