Deutsche Schule Athen donates 210 sleeping bags to refugees on Chios
The initiative was also supported by the Municipality of Chios and UNHCR.
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Deutsche Schule Athen supports refugees on Chios
Representatives of the Deutsche Schule Athen recently visited the refugee reception centre on the island of Chios and offered 290 sleeping bags.
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Chios: Greek island battles odds to cope with refugee influx – UNHCR
It was 1:30 am in the morning and the Yassins had just come off a three-hour windowless van journey. They were now somewhere near the Turkish town of Çeşme and the people smugglers’ overcrowded vessel was waiting.
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Dutch Ministers visit Farmakonisi, Chios and Agathonisi islands
The Minister of National Defence Panos Kammenos, accompanied by the Chief of HAGS Lieutenant General Vasileios Tellidis, the Netherlands’ Minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and the Netherlands’ Minister for Immigration Klaas Dijkhoff, in the context of their official visit to Greece, visited the islands of Farmakonisi, Chios and Agathonisi.
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UNHCR aids refugees on the Greek Islands
An estimated 20,000 refugees and migrants are currently on the Islands of Chios, Kalymnos, Kos, Lesvos, Leros and Samos, straining limited reception facilities and forcing many, including women and children, to sleep out in the open.
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