International Volunteers - Refugee Crisis

www.paih.org Through joint efforts, we sent 200 doctors, nurses and lifeguard volunteers from all over the world. Eric Kempson is an artist and a wood carver.

Updates from international team of volunteers sent by Positive Action in Housing to save refugee lives. 200 volunteers from all over the world went to Lesvos in 2015. LESVOS REFUGEE CRISIS APPEAL

Updated February 2021

In 2015/16, Positive Action in Housing worked closely with The Kempson family over the humanitarian crisis in Lesvos. Our aim was simple - to save refugee lives in Europe. We raise

d over £50,000 of aid for Lesvos which is at the frontline of the biggest refugee crisis Europe has faced since world War 2. Our charity (SC027577) is shocked at a growing dossier of evidence that shows that the international aid agencies are collecting massive amounts of aid yet doing very little to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Lesvos, leaving it to volunteers and tiny NGOs like Drop in the Ocean, WAHA and our charity to help those in need. This website will encourage volunteers, donations and put pressure on aid agencies to act. The narrow Mytilini strait separates Turkey from the Greek island by just six miles and more than 93,000 people have landed on its shores so far this year, making it the country’s busiest point for refugee arrivals. He works with wife Philippa, an artist, and daughter Elleni, to helps bring refugees to safety, giving them food, water and medical help and attending to miscarriages and newborns. Eric says aid agencies are failing the thousands who land on the beach near his home and issued an urgent appeal for international help. Speaking in Glasgow on November 4 2015, Eric Kempson recounted the tragedy unfolding on his doorstep, saying: “I am here to let the world know what’s going on in the island of Lesvos. A lot more needs to be done. Last Wednesday, we had a wooden boat with 250 people on it collapse out at sea. In 60 seconds it went under. We had four groups of doctors surrounding four babies, working on them. Out of the four groups, one cheer went up – one made it. There were bodies everywhere. On Friday, 28 bodies washed up. We are getting hardly any help from the aid agencies, hardly any help from European governments.”

Criticising international charities and authorities, he added:
“European governments are making it worse. They sink the boats and put them back where they left from. One family came in a week ago and said they had been put back three times. They had been sunk in the water. The Turkish coastguard is sinking the boats, picking the people up and putting survivors back on the beach.

“I am critical of aid agencies – I have lived with them for nine months and this has changed my views. They come in and take photographs, nothing comes back in. They can get away with it in Africa and Bangladesh but they’re in Europe now and the spotlight is on them. The camps are disgraceful. There’s sewage running between the camps. Europe is meant to be civilised. I can’t step back as long as it is going on. I’ll be there until it’s past.”

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP NOW

Donate to:

The Hope Project at Lesvos via JustGiving
Moria White Helmets (via Stand By Me Lesvos)
Aegean Boat Report

Don’t donate to big aid agencies who are barely visible. Donate to Positive Action in Housing: www.positiveactionh.org

Ukrainians - Scotland - UK - Request Form

16/03/2022

UKRAINE APPEAL - ACT NOW

For Ukrainian families Fleeing War: Assistance for Ukrainians fleeing the war to find shelter with hosts in the U.K.. Fill in the form https://paih.typeform.com/refugeerequest

Donate to the Ukraine Refugee Appeal https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ukrainerefugeeappeal

To offer free shelter to refugees, visit www.roomforrefugees.com

More info on hosting: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/15/homes-for-ukraine-what-do-i-need-to-do-to-host-refugees-in-the-uk

Ukrainians - Scotland - UK - Request Form Are you Ukrainian? Are you fleeing the war? Do you/your family need to live in the UK? Then let us help you and match you with families who want to help you settle in the UK. Just fill in this form.

14/03/2022

UKRAINIAN REFUGEE APPEAL - ACT NOW

This fund will directly help Ukrainian refugees rebuild their lives in the U.K.

To offer shelter to refugees: visit www.roomforrefugees.com or complete online host request form paih.typeform.com/to/dl4g60

For Ukrainians who want homes in Scotland/the U.K. via Room for refugees or the UK Government "Homes for Ukrainians" scheme, fill in this request form now and we will match you with hosts:

Fill in this form: https://paih.typeform.com/refugeerequest

Donate now: www.cafdonate.cafonline.org/20077 #!/

Or go to www.positiveactionh.org/donate

12/03/2022

Resources for Ukrainians - Positive Action in Housing Below are some resources for Ukrainians trying to leave Ukraine. It will be updated.

03/03/2022

If you want to support refugees in Lesvos please donate to the Hope Project in Lesvos. Eric and Philippa Kempson have sustained literally thousands of refugees since 2015, they have been there consistently to support people and have witnessed multiple tragic drownings. Do donate and remember to gift aid your donation.

As you all know recently we became a registered UK charity. The amazing news is, we finally have a bank account!!! Details below:

IBAN:
GB03 LOYD 3096 2677 7094 60
BIC/SWIFT:
LOYDGB21446
Sort code. 30-96-26 Account no: 77709460

03/03/2022

The Guardian view on Ukraine’s desperation: escaping Putin’s cruelty | Editorial Editorial: Hundreds of thousands are fleeing the vicious assault upon their country’s independence. They need help

26/02/2022

Latest vacancy - Admin & Finance Assistant - Positive Action in Housing Positive Action in Housing is an anti-racist homelessness charity (SC027577) dedicated to supporting women, children and men from refugee and migrant backgrounds to rebuild their lives. The following job is now available.

26/12/2021

+++NEWS FLASH+++

Italy dropped charges of aiding illegal migration against Carola Rackete, former captain of German rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3.

Rackete was steering the ship in June 2019, when it entered Lampedusa with 53 migrants - despite being refused entry.

More to follow

26/12/2021

Two shipwrecks in two days in the Aegean Sea, with 11 so far found dead and possibly 36 still missing.

90 people, 52 men, 11 women and 27 children, managed to get ashore by their own means, while as many as 6 people might still be missing, according to information Aegean Boat Report received from the survivors on Pori, saying that the boat was carrying 107 people.

The 90 survivors and 11 dead have been transferred to the port of Piraeus.

On Tuesday night south of the Cycladic island of Folegandros, a sailboat carrying as many as 50 people capsized, 13 people was rescued, four person found drowned and as many as 30 people believed to still be missing, in one of the most deadliest shipwreck in the Aegean for years.

Also a third sailboat with refugees ran aground yesterday, Thursday afternoon, in the area of Gerolimenas, in Mani. The boat ran aground a short distance from the mainland. Authorities reportedly were notified by an eyewitness - a resident of the area that a boat with migrants has been immobilized near the mainland. The Coast Guard transported 92 refugees to land, all men, 54 of them minors.

While these tragedies have been unfolding, the Greek government continues to push back refugees in the Aegean Sea, putting hundreds of vulnerable people in life threatening situations.

Last night a boat carrying 31 people that arrived on Chios, was arrested by port police, before first light today they found themselves drifting in two life rafts in the Aegean Sea. According to the Turkish Coast Guard over 150 people have been picked up in the Aegean Sea this morning, in 8 different cases, showing that the Hellenic coast guard shows no mercy, even on Christmas Eve.

Video is from the extraction of 90 people from Pori island by the Hellenic coast guard this morning. It’s interesting to see that they use the same life rafts, same make and model, to rescue people off the island of Pori, as they use to push vulnerable men, women and children back with in the Aegean Sea.

16/12/2021

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14/12/2021

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