By Giulio D'Errico | Project co-coordinator
Hello global givers,
We hadn't been this busy as in the past three months for a long time, and we are very happy about it.
Not only we restarted all our library sessions all over Attica, but we received and collected hundreds of new books in Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Turkish, French, German and English, so many that we are still cataloguing them. Moreover, we started a beautiful collaboration with our friends at Pili Pala (check them out on Instagram) to run colorful art-based children sessions in Korinthos camp.
After a few quiet weeks after the Greek 6-month-long lockdown, our sessions in camps are busy as before with adult and teenage readers.
Our readers had to fight with the blistering heat of this Greek summer and the wildfires of the past month. Malakasa camp was evacuated for a few days in early august, due to a wildfire approaching the camp. No one was hurt, and the "homes" of 3,000 people were luckily left untouched by the fire.
We took a short break in August, but September has been a month full of potential new opportunity. We are working to start new sessions in Elefsina, which is now a safe-zone for unaccompanied teenager waiting for family reunification in different European countries, and we will soon start collaborating with the residents of the largest camp in mainland Greece, Ritsona. And we also have a new website (check the link below)
Camps remain the biggest challenge to inclusion. So far in 2021, under the brand of 'modernisation', camps closer to Athens have been closed (or will be by the end of the year), while those more isolated grow bigger and more controlled, in the form of "close and controlled" camps, the first of which just opened on Samos.
Mosier Renè, our new library van, runs an average of 450 km per week in order to reach our readers in these camps and offer them narrative, poetry, comics, non-fiction, textbooks and language resources in their native languages.
Please keep supporting us!
SOME NUMBERS FOR THE PAST MONTHS:
91 Sessions Run
1012 Books Loaned
701 Books Returned
1310+ Language Resources Distributed
AND SOME PHOTOS:
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