Do you think the situation in the Mediterranean feels hopeless? Is it too scary to think about, do you scroll by the images on your Facebook page because they make you feel like shit and you don’t know what you can do?
I’ve been feeling guilty, I’ve been having nightmares, the image of the little drowned boy has been haunting me. I cry when I think of him and I get frustrated when our daughter doesn’t want to eat her food. If she only knew (!) but then again I am so happy she doesn’t know. I’ve had the feeling of hopelessness, what can I do? What can my family do?
I desperately donated a couple of hundred Swedish kronor to feel better, I made the donation through the red-cross home page. But still I felt that I could do more and I wanted to know that whatever I helped with would end up with the ones who needed it.
People die in the Mediterranean, but people survive too. Thousands every day, many people end up in Europe shaken, tired, scared and wet. They come with nothing, to places where nothing exists and they also need help. We decided to donate our own produced moccasins to the children in the refugee camps. We needed to find a organization that was willing to take them with them there and make sure that they are handed out to the children that are in need of a pair of shoes or socks. They will at least keep some little feet warm and protected. We have now been in contact with the Swedish organization “Vi gör vad vi kan” which means “we do what we can”, they are going to the refugee camps in Lesbos the 17th of September and they will take our moccasins to the children there.
Today I’ve been packing the moccasins and labelling them with size. I’ve been crying on and off, for example when I held a pair of moccasins and thought that in a couple of days a little child will be wearing them, a child that has probably witnessed hell on earth. A child that can’t help where it was born. It does feel good to help, but I know my actions aren’t going to resolve the situation, of course I want to do more but this is what I can do now. 112 pairs to 112 children. I hope they’ll make someone smile, if only for a moment, in all this misery.
How can you help?
–> You can donate money HERE
–> You can buy a BOB Reykjavik tee shirt and they will donate one warm carpet for every tee shirt sold that goes the the refugee camps, they are very much in need of that as the Autumn is coming and it gets very cold there too.
–> you can join redcross iceland and help in their organization.
Together we can all make a BIG difference!
Please do something, anything. No donation is too small.
Love,
L
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