LIGHT A BEACON OF HOPE

Support people seeking refuge as they rebuild their lives in safety. Lighthouse Relief provides safe harbour to refugees and asylum seekers through essential mental health and psychosocial support, enabling their long-term social and economic integration.

Donations to Lighthouse Relief help us provide vital services for refugees and asylum-seekers living in Greece. Our mission is to fill gaps in humanitarian protection for people seeking refuge. Our Sport & Safe Space project facilitates sports sessions through football, basketball, and volleyball for those living in some of the largest refugee camps in Europe. Our recent project, Integration Through Learning, assists refugees and asylum seekers access safe and sustainable employment, navigate complicated Greek systems which allow them to work, find health care and housing, and build work-related skills.

You can help Change Lives Through Sport, supporting our sports sessions at Ritsona & Corinth camps. Support Integration Through Learning, by funding our employment and education activities at Corinth & Lavrio.

EXAMPLES OF How Your GIFT CAN HELP US…

€150 Covers the transportation costs for one of our Ritsona football sessions

Ritsona camp is one of the most isolated in Greece. There is no public transport, so Lighthouse Relief hires buses to enable participants to access our sessions, and experience the joy of playing sport, away from the stifling camp environment.

Provides a pair of basic sports shoes for a participant in our sports sessions. The same amount covers the cost of balls and bibs for multiple sessions.

€20 Provides basic sports equipment

€50 Covers the cost of a qualified language teacher

Provides the cost of a teacher, including transportation costs, for an afternoon of language learning classes.

€15 Provides nutritious snacks for participants

Provides water and snacks for all participants in one of our football sessions, or for participants in our Greek/English language classes.

  • The Lighthouse Relief team works tirelessly in Greece to support some of the most vulnerable in society. Their sports programme provides respite and moments of joy to children and young people forced to live in awfully-provisioned, overpopulated camps far from important services and basic amenities. We're proud to call them a partner." - Rachel Strudwick, ForRefugees (partner and donor).

  • Lighthouse Relief is a genuinely remarkable organisation. From their extraordinary origin story as a volunteer-founded collective born in response to a massive humanitarian crisis to their nimble pivots amidst a rapidly changing context in Greece, Lighthouse Relief has demonstrated an ability to provide crucial support in many forms to people experiencing migration. The team navigates complexity in a way that maintains their ethos of compassion and service while maximising their effectiveness, despite the many obstacles the world has thrown their way.

    Bill Meyer (regular monthly donor)