Refugee Support Europe started operating in one of the Greek Government’s official Refugee Camps in April 2016. They went on to work on seven other refugee camps in Greece and supported large unofficial camps of Rohingya in Bangladesh and Central Americans in Mexico. 

They now run Dignity Centres in Nicosia Cyprus, Ioannina Greece and Chisinau Moldova offering critical support tailored to the refugees and asylum seekers in each of those cities.  The Dignity Centre offers a range of support. At its heart is the Dignity Market – a highly innovative way of distributing food to an ever-changing group of refugees and asylum seekers in greatest need.

It’s dignified, offers choice and allows for a little normality. The food is critical and it helps but what they are really doing is feeding spirits.  It’s a world away from just giving people a bag of food. They allow people to select up to €7 of food per adult plus €3.50 per child each week. So that makes it very clear where your money goes – €31 (£27) provides an individual with an essential basket of goods for one month.

I will be the latest in 1,200+ volunteers from over 40 nations who have come for weeks at a time to stand shoulder to shoulder with refugees at difficult times in their journey.
Everything is bought new from local businesses:
- It is important to invest in the local economy and use that to challenge objections from local people about having refugees and asylum seekers in their community
- It reduces waste, enables them to provide consistency and means that people should not have to accept donated goods that others do not want

Your donation enables them to move quickly because needs are always changing. That way of working has enabled them to launch innovative services, move to new refugee camps, respond immediately to crises, set up bases in new countries, do something completely different and create whole new enterprises.

Whatever you can donate will help us create a world where all refugees can love a life with dignity.