“Nobody knows what is going on here,” says Katerina. “Today the camp looks like this, but tomorrow things could be different.

This was the case a few weeks ago, when overnight the residents of the camp, whose application for asylum had once again gone in the bin, or those who had just been granted asylum, found out that there was no food for them. They cannot be fed and have to fend for their future on their own. Without money, a job and a roof over their heads, everyone knows how it will end for them, but no one cares anymore.

Greece does not want refugees. The parliamentary elections last Sunday gave a majority to a party that wants to end the hospitality. The minister in charge of immigration made it clear: if you’re white Catholic – you can stay, if you’re not – pack your bags, because you don’t fit in with us and we won’t be nice anymore.

Words have been followed by actions. Witness statements show that the biggest tragedy in the Mediterranean on the 14th of June was not an unfortunate accident, but the consequence of an attempt by the Greek coast guard to forcefully push people away. The boat, sailing from Tobruk with more than 700 passengers on board, capsized, taking nearly 600 human lives to the bottom.

No one is investigating the case. The CCTV footage and logbooks of the vessel’s safety watch have disappeared. Journalists announce that 32 similar, well-documented violations of international law will be made public and reported to the International Tribunal.

What does this mean for us? Only that the political dividing line running through the middle of the tables where families and friends sit keeps everyone busy arguing about their views and beliefs. The most disadvantaged, unwanted and excluded, of course, do not have a voice. It is for them that we are here. It is for them that we show them every day that they have not only enemies in this world, but great friends – you, who aren’t indifferent to what happens to them.

Several dozen mothers with their children were invited today to feast together. Katerina prepared a delicious meal, adding spice and heart to the wonderful vegetables from our Home Village farm. Earlier, Nikos and I had just dug up the emerging potatoes, nurtured and grown by those who have already managed to leave the camp. We are fulfilling their dream of having a job, because according to the culture they come from, a man’s role is to work and provide for his family, not just argue about how the world is organised. They don’t want to be stuck doing nothing. They want to work.

We are restoring people’s dignity by giving them jobs in the Home Village and feeding the most vulnerable and sick in the camp. Do it with us today. Donate at least one hot meal. Look at the faces of these people and become their friend. Do it now.