Refugee Project Serres, Greece

The day after we returned from Liverpool I faced another day of unpacking and repacking to take off again the following day.  I spent a week in northern Greece at the same camp I worked at in the autumn of 2016.  This time I was asked to come help with a project to share refugee stories, not just images, but complete interviews with a few refugees who were willing to open up and share.  I was invited to photograph them in these tender and often grief-ridden moments to help share these stories through images.  While there I also got to see what some of the classes and services look like that Lifting Hands International provides.  It was a great week getting to know some of the new volunteers and revisiting some of the refugees I had met last year.  After 8 weeks of nonstop travel, tallying 10 flights in all this summer I was definitely ready to come home and put up the suitcases for a while.

Before I left I ran a clothing collection drive to make sure I could bring something to the refugees.  It was tricky managing this with all the travel, but it went really well and I managed to bring about £2200 worth of new underwear and socks for the refugees.  The boys helped me pack it all up!

Unloading all the supplies I brought into the LHI warehouse.  

German classes, many of the Yazidis will end up in Germany

LHI has to run programmes in a nearby park outside of the camp, as the local government sadly no longer allows NGOs inside the camps.  

Some of the images from some of the refugees we interviewed . . .