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We’re always busy, but it seems somehow we’re even busier than usual these days, and with fieldwork always taking priority over updates, there’s a lot to catch up on!

Our Child-Friendly Space for children aged 1-3 has come along very well since its Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 8th May 2018”

We’re enjoying the early spring in Nea Kavala, seeing people out and about, enjoying the sunshine. We’ve made some positive changes to our programmes over the last few weeks, and are happy with the outcomes. We’ve moved all of our adults’ English classes to the afternoon due to many complaints in our survey about classes being too early in the day. Although we’ve disrupted our current students’ daily routine, we’re excited to see more of the camp residents attending lessons at a more ‘reasonable’ hour. Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 13th March 2018”

We’re busy as ever providing our regular educational and recreational programme to the residents of Nea Kavala. Attendance levels are high: everyone has adjusted well to our newest timetable changes. The worst of the winter seems to be over, and the sun has helped us by encouraging people out of their warm containers and into our lessons and activities! We’re glad to enjoy this period of pleasant weather before the intense summer heat sets in, boycotting our activities! Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 22nd February 2018”

It’s been a while since we last updated and we’ve had a very full-on January! Over the Christmas period, We Are Here partnered with Drop in the Ocean to provide some special recreational activities for children, adults and women, as well as some English conversation classes. This allowed many members of our team to have a proper break and enjoy some of the festive season with friends and family, returning well-rested with fresh ideas in early January. We’re extremely grateful to Drop for all of their hard work and generosity over this time, and we are pleased to be working closer alongside them because of this positive experience. Looking forward to updating soon on some of our new ideas and collaboration projects! Watch this space! Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 30th January 2018”

The Community Centre and Women’s Space are busier than ever! After creating and translating new and improved schedules, we distributed them door to door, and we are happy with our increased attendance, especially from  people towards the back of the camp. For the school-aged children, we distributed school bags full of fun stationery goodies and the kids enjoy showing off their personal pencil cases in class every day. Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 9th November”

We’ve been busy trying to improve the Community Centre and Women’s Space schedules recently to better involve a larger proportion of the camp. Nea Kavala is based on an old runway with most of the containers in a long line heading away from any services. The people in the furthest sections Continue reading “Project Update – Nea Kavala, 12th October 2017”

It has been a hot summer in the local park, but although the heat slowed us down at times, it did not stop us or our students. And we had some new students too, once Save The Children had left at the end of July. Like many NGOs, they have lost their Continue reading “Project update – Serres, 4th October”

Hello and welcome to another update from We Are Here! Our adults, children’s and women’s activities and lessons in Nea Kavala continue to run smoothly with our new team of volunteers. With many new skill sets in the group, we’re Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 28th September”

Over the last couple of weeks, We Are Here has hosted some nice community events at the camp. Together with Drop in the Ocean, we celebrated Eid al-Adhar in Nea Kavala. In national or bigger ethnic groups, people Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 11th September”

As an independent organisation, it is possible for We Are Here to be flexible and try to fill existing gaps within the camp as far as we can. Save the Children recently left Nea Kavala, creating a need for more children´s activities and lessons. We quickly created a Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 23rd August”