One of these bags of washed laundry is The Lava Project’s 20000th bag washed since we started operations 18 months ago! Sometimes our work becomes quite monotonous, working through mountains of bedsheets and baby clothes. That makes days like today extra special, when we remember how far we’ve come and how much of an impact […]
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Thank you Watershed for keeping the gas flowing
A massive thank you to Watershed and Respekt für Griechenland for giving us €500 to fill up our gas tank, allowing our gas dryers to keep on drying through Christmas and New Year.
Thank you Refugee4Refugees Volunteers!
We would like to extend a big thank you to volunteers from Refugee4Refugees who have been helping us out over the past few weeks.
Providing masks to refugees
We receive a lot of clothing with disposable masks in the pockets – which we of course dispose of. So we are now including new washable masks with the clothing when we return it to camp residents.
Europes biggest humanitarian disaster
Over the past two nights fires have destroyed most of Moria refugee camp on Lesvos, leaving over 10,000 people without shelter and, in many cases, without any of their possessions. Police have placed a cordon around what remains of the camp, and blocked all roads into Mytilini, in an attempt to stop refugees from reaching the town. Families are therefore sleeping on roads, in fields and on the mountains, without shelter, food, water or sanitation.
Team baby cloths
The only thing we love more than folding baby clothes is washing them! In honor of washing laundry for almost 600 scabies patients last month, we took a break to have a little fun at work.
Happy birthday Lava!
This past week, we celebrated our first anniversary as The Lava Project! Our weekly statistics board usually records our laundry-related accomplishments, but we make sure to keep track of the sentimental ones too! Here are some of the most noteworthy: 13,875 bags of cleaned laundry4,000+ individual scabies patients40,050 articles of cleaned COVID-19 personal protection equipment […]
World refugee week
#worldrefugeeweek in Lesvos in the middle of a pandemic has invited pushes for solidarity and change in unprecedented ways. While the rest of the world outside these camps raises awareness, funds, and voices in ways that our freedom permits, life inside the camp will change not just because of MPs or hashtags, but because of […]
Crazy times
Crazy times call for crazy ambition! Since our last update, we’ve been working on complying with Greece’s lockdown regulations for public health, avoiding the fascist uprisings around the island, and figuring out how to work in uncertain times and circumstances. We’ve been closed officially to self-isolate as much as possible for two weeks just in […]
Enough is enough!
Due to the events and unrest of the last few days we are sorry to announce that The Lava Project will be closed for the rest of the week until Tuesday 3rd of March when we hope to open again. Lesvos is on fire. The local population is exhausted, the people in the camps are […]