
Greece
Since the EU-Turkey deal in March 2016, migrants and refugees previously in transit through the Greek islands have been trapped there for an indeterminate time in overcrowded, unsafe and unhygienic conditions, without access to basic services, adequate shelter or information on their legal status.
We provide medical and mental healthcare to migrants on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos, as well as in Athens. Our activities include vaccinating migrant children against common childhood diseases, providing sexual and reproductive healthcare, treating chronic diseases and providing care for survivors of torture and sexual violence.
Our teams in Lesbos and Samos have reported overwhelming numbers of people suffering from serious mental health conditions while being contained on the islands. We have made repeated calls on the European Union to completely change its approach to migration, which is causing avoidable harm to the health and wellbeing of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
Our activities in 2020 in Greece
Data and information from the International Activity Report 2020.
291
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€13.3 M
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Voices from the field
I am overwhelmed by the severity of each referral that arrives in my inbox…Dr Liz Clark, working in Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos

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“We can only help our patients to survive” new camp on Samos

One year on from Moria fire, EU denies dignity to migrants trapped on Greek islands

Greece and EU must change approach to migration as scale of people’s suffering revealed

Constructing Crisis at Europe’s Border

Open letter to Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner of Home Affairs

Alarming mental health distress among asylum seekers on Greek islands

Negligent and dangerous COVID-19 response in Vathy camp, Samos

EU must stop trapping people in miserable conditions on the Greek islands
Contact us

15 Xenias St.
115 27 Athens
Greece