‘We Are Here’ News

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”

It has been another busy couple of weeks here at Nea Kavala! We have been working on lots of small projects and our ever-growing to-do list. Still, we are keeping up with our many lessons: popular as ever! In the Greek summer heat, our busiest classes are almost Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 8th August”

Many very busy weeks have passed since we last gave an update on our English language classes with the Yazidis that we have continued to support since they left Nea Kavala camp back in August 2016. The community were returned to an upgraded Serres camp at the end of March after spending the winter in emergency hotel accommodation in a different town, having been evacuated from their tents in Serres in the minus degrees of December 2016. Continue reading “Project update- Serres, 31st July 2017”

We Are Here has had a busy couple of weeks, and is happy to offer more activities. As a Community Centre, we are always trying to involve people from different countries, different belief groups, different ages, different genders in our activities to create a camp community together. Simply offering classes to all adults or children in the camp does bring people together, but Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 24th July 2017”

This week in Nea Kavala has been very busy with our usual workload of classes and activities, as well as some new English activities we are offering to our many eager beaver English students! Alongside our four levels of English classes five days a week, we now also have a Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 13th July 2017”

There has been lots of news from Nea Kavala as we attempt to attend to the needs of the ever-fluctuating refugee community within the camp. Last week was particularly hot as a heatwave smothered Greece with temperatures above 40 C. The camp residents Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 6th July 2017”

 

We Are Here has had some great fun with activities and events recently. Local schools are over for the long Greek summer holiday, so there are plenty of children around again. Also the last of the people who have been in camp for over a year are starting to move on with their asylum cases and Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 20th June 2017”

This week has been busy as ever with our usual lessons and activities, as well as a few special events and new workshops.

We are very happy to announce Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 13th June 2017”

Things have been extremely busy over the last few weeks for We Are Here, with lots of extra work to do. We are very fortunate that working together with personal contacts, as well as the wider Northern Greece volunteer community, many of our team have been able to Continue reading “Project update – Nea Kavala, 6th June”