By Roumpini Terzaki | Project Leader
In the spring of 2026, we welcomed volunteers from the United Kingdom and Cyprus with hope and determination. After the devastating wildfires of 2025 in Greece, we knew that floods and landslides would likely follow. We prepared as best we could, but the scale of the disaster exceeded every expectation.
Together, volunteers and local residents created networks of support for communities that had suddenly become isolated. Entire road systems connecting villages to hospitals, schools, and nearby cities had been destroyed. Despite their hardship, residents—young and old alike—joined our efforts immediately, working side by side with remarkable courage and solidarity.
Our first priority was simple: no family should be left hungry. We transported essential supplies and established community kitchens in affected villages, ensuring that every resident felt supported and cared for from the very first day.
Today, the Peloponnese region of southern Greece continues to suffer the consequences of extreme weather events, including catastrophic flooding, earthquakes, road collapses, and major landslides across the Taygetos mountain range. Entire communities have been cut off from essential services, homes have been evacuated, and critical transportation routes have disappeared.
The humanitarian annex we are building in the Peloponnese has already proven indispensable. Its coastal access allows us to reach islands and remote villages that remained disconnected for weeks after landslides destroyed many kilometers of road infrastructure.
Among the hardest-hit communities is the mountain village of Alagonia in Messinia. Repeated landslides and severe road subsidence completely blocked access routes, leaving residents isolated from medical care, emergency assistance, education, and basic supplies.
Heavy rainfall, unstable ground conditions, and ongoing geological activity continue to threaten lives, homes, and public infrastructure throughout the region. Several communities remain under emergency conditions as authorities struggle to contain the growing risks.
The Human CostBehind every damaged road is a family unable to reach a hospital.
Behind every landslide is an elderly resident cut off from life-saving medication.
Behind every collapsed route is a child whose access to education, safety, and opportunity has been disrupted.
Families in isolated mountain villages continue to face severe challenges:
Children, elderly residents, and people with disabilities remain among the most vulnerable.
The combination of floods, earthquakes, unstable slopes, and collapsing infrastructure has created a prolonged humanitarian emergency requiring urgent intervention, reconstruction, and long-term disaster prevention measures.
A Region Still Fighting to RecoverAcross the Peloponnese, communities have endured:
Many mountain settlements remain vulnerable to further isolation if additional landslides occur.
A Call for International SupportThe people of the Peloponnese urgently need:
Without immediate action, many communities face prolonged isolation and continued hardship.
Yet amid the destruction, we continue to witness extraordinary resilience. Volunteers, local residents, emergency workers, and humanitarian partners have come together to support one another when it matters most.
Every road rebuilt reconnects a family to medical care.
Every delivery of food restores dignity and hope.
Every act of support reminds isolated communities that they have not been forgotten.
With your help, we can restore access, rebuild lives, and ensure that no child, no elderly person, and no family is left behind.
Thank you for standing with the people of Greece during this critical time.
Together, we can turn recovery into renewal and help vulnerable communities build a safer future.
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By Roumpini TERZAKI | Project Leader
By Roumpini Terzaki | Project Leader
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