by Amber Bauer | Jun 17, 2022 | From the Ground
As Katie, co-founder of Eudaimonia Medical Services was showing me around the medical area of the Mavrovouni Refugee Camp “Moria 2” on Lesvos, two new arrivals were brought into the COVID quarantine area. Although they had only just reached camp, I heard their boat...
by Amber Bauer | Jun 14, 2022 | From the Ground
What a joy watching kids love their football training. 30ish girls and 40ish boys aged 6-16 (at a guess). Children who normally live every day in the isolated Malakasa Refugee Camp about 45 minutes from Athens. Thanks to Anne of CHEERing Greece, the coaches from camp,...
by Amber Bauer | Jun 11, 2022 | From the Ground
What’s more important – physical or mental health? It’s a tough question isn’t it? Because we don’t have the answer, we support both. In this case, what value do you put on the joy of escaping camp for a few hours, and of building confidence in the water? Of...
by Amber Bauer | Apr 29, 2022 | From the Ground
It was destroyed. At 7am yesterday morning the CRS (French police) again moved in to flatten the Dunkirk Grande-Synthe ‘camp’ where refugee women, children and men, who are not from Ukraine, attempt to survive. This is what our tax-payer £42m is paying for; the latest...
by Amber Bauer | Mar 25, 2022 | From the Ground
I was in the makeshift refugee camp near Dunkirk on Saturday morning watching Angus, Mark, San and Jake dig a new hole-in-the-ground toilet. I’d excused myself from the physical labour after twisting my ankle in the morning. And I was musing that no one watching would...
by Amber Bauer | Mar 24, 2022 | From the Ground
Amber, Mark, Angus, Ana & San – forRefugees, Herts for Refugees and Refugee Info Bus in the rare Calais sunshine The Calais warehouse was buzzing with volunteers and vans when we arrived to this now familiar hub. I was last here in November but the...
