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Lesvos, Europe

Stand By Me

Stand by me Lesvos believes that “refugee participation and self-management are fundamental, assuming a respect for the capabilities of refugees and the belief that, as human beings, they have the right to control their own lives” (UNHCR).

We are therefore engaging in “help to self-help”: supporting self-organizations inside the camp, including our partners Moria Corona Awareness Team, Moria White Helmets and Moria Academia.

After all, what is education worth if not to use one’s prior knowledge?

We constantly communicate with camp residents, who best understand their own needs and therefore create well-functioning solutions.

As an organization deeply rooted within the fabrics of the island, we closely cooperate with the municipality to support islanders in need.

We are standing by Lesvos as independent and equal partners, but we need the EU to act.

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Our Story

Founded in 2017 by local Greek citizens of Lesvos Island, Stand By Me Lesvos is a different type of Non Profit. With little funds we have created a safe, positive space, where local Greeks, refugees and international team members are all working side by side, just in walking distance from the overcrowded camp.

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Get Together

While international NGOs come and go, we live here in Lesvos. Our commitment is for the long term, focusing on three main targets: Education, Empowerment and Integration. We collaborate with Greek locals, camp residents and international team members, because we can only face this situation standing together.

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Under regular conditions, we provide education opportunities in different area, but during the corona crisis we had to undertake completely new tasks. Refugees came to us and asked for help, so we are very glad to be able to support these self-organized teams in Lesvos. Please consider supporting them and their work with a donation through us.

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MORIA ACADEMIA

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MORIA CORONA AWARENESS TEAM

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Education, Environment, Empowerment

All our projects were challenged by the Pandemic. How to offer education when everyone is confined at home and within the camp?

Stand By Me Lesvos rapidly accommodated from this crisis: First of all we started to support the self-organized schools within the camp. Secondly, online classes were settled thanks to our Distance Learning Program, free and available for all refugees.

In addition, during this year of coronavirus restrictions and concern, asylum seekers had to manage on their own in terms of prevention, health rules and waste management.

Stand By Me Lesvos support Moria Corona Awareness Team, Moria White Helmets and Moria Academia to organize themselves and provided consistent and sustainable support to the self-organized groups as well as their members.

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We acknowledge that Lesvos has faced several challenges, whereas the year 2020 has been particularly tough for the island. Everything from the violent conflicts we experienced at the early start of the year, to Moria Camp burning down, to a loss of tourism and economic decline forcing more and more Greek citizens under the poverty line.

For this, we stand together as Greek citizens, a handful of long-term international team-members and self-organised groups of asylum-seekers supporting one another to get through these difficult times.

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Be a part of Stand By Me Lesvos by supporting us, monthly or just once.

Monthly donations are extremely important to us, as they allow to have a more stable budget and thus to plan longer term projects

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