Why I was in Greece
It just occurred to me that I never followed up on why we were in Greece in the first place last summer. Feeling at a loss as to what to do about the refugee crisis, I researched and asked around. I was put in contact with a woman who runs a small NGO and was helping at a camp in central Greece. She was enthusiastic and supportive of our visit, and put the right wheels in motion to get us there. I can't really describe the camp to you, for many reasons, or even if it met my expectations. I learned a lot that I didn't learn in grad school about long term emergency planning, logistics, and some hard truths about NGO's and their level of helpfulness. It is hard to know the right thing to say, because the experience meant so much to me. While on camp we did a great many things- organizing clothes, making first aid kits, distributing food items, shopping for camp. The best times were when we got to hang out with the residents either through clothes distributions, teachi