In 2015, 856,000 people passed through the Greek islands, and in 2017 and 2018 only just under 30 thousand (according to UNHCR). But 2019 brought already a growth – over 60,000 newcomers. Today, boats coming to Greek beaches are back again, and practice shows that you can get stuck in Lesbos for a good few years. Nikos and Katerina run a small restaurant on the island, where every refugee can feel at home and eat a meal for free.
06.12.2021
Murtaza, a refugee from Afghanistan, was so grateful to Katerina and Nikos for their hospitality at Home for All that he turned one of the restaurant tables into a beautiful painting of a winter landscape. We want you to take this work of art home for Christmas this year!
Every day, The Good Factory, together with the local restaurant Home for All, fights for the dignity of refugees in a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. We provide the most vulnerable people with warm, well-balanced meals, provide first aid materials and send medical missions to the youngest. In the fight for a dignified life for the refugees, we are very much concerned with children and young people. So many of them know no other life than inside the camp boundaries. For them, we want to restore a semblance of normality, to convince them that in addition to enemies, they also have friends in this world.
We have seen more than once how important it is to create a space for children and young people where they can take a break from the overwhelming reality of camp. We invite them to Home for All for cooking, music and painting workshops. We do everything we can to make sure that in addition to all the evil that they have been experiencing for months, they also experience good, let their creativity run free, and remember their childhood and their dreams. Murtaza left his drawing on the table top to say “thank you for your hospitality”.
By purchasing this bauble, you are helping us to reach out to those most in need and to welcome them at the Christmas table.
27.08.2023
The unpaved road stretches for kilometres and winds down the mountainous slopes. It cuts through bone-dry pine forests. From here to Mitylena, the island’s capital, it is more than 40 kilometres. To any sign of civilisation – more than 10. Out of sight, out of mind of all outsiders, a gigantic new refugee camp is […]
14.08.2023
Onur was a baker in Kurdistan. He is not afraid of any job. Stately, broad-shouldered, hands like vices. They have strength and feel. He arrived in Lesbos eight years ago. Abdul got off the boat on a Greek beach a year later. In Syria, he was a mechanic. He has fixed up his decrepit old […]
09.08.2023
“No disease will touch them. They are wild trees. They have already survived more than one pest.” When Nikos talks about olives, he grabs the listener’s full attention. You fall into a tunnel where there are you, Nikos and the olives. We talk like this for several hours. I don’t know how many. Nobody is […]
