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Mar 1, 2023

Library updates

2022 has come and gone and a new year has started! Our Multilingual Library project continues to serve the residents of the Mavrovouni...

Mar 2, 2021

Our Multilingual Library

Our library is made up of books written in Greek, English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Farsi, and German.

Jan 29, 2021

The beginnings of BagforEveryone

For those of you who are unaware of our bagforeveryone project: in 2020 we collaborated with the Swiss NGO #EducationEveryone to create a...

Jan 18, 2021

Take a look back on 2020 with Starfish

2020 began like any other. As a team we had planned for the projects we would introduce throughout the year, we had discussed the events...

Jan 15, 2021

What’s inside a Starfish baby box?

Many of you will have heard us talking about our Baby Box project – which has been running since 2018. Working initially within the Moria...

Jan 16, 2020

Starfish: Our Reflection on 2019

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R We enter a new decade, the 2020s, with hopes for positive news and developments to improve the situation for...

Jun 1, 2019

Sharif’s story

My name is Sharif and I am a refugee on the island of Lesvos in Greece. I arrived on the island on the 26th of July 2018. Since then I...

Apr 27, 2019

An opportunity hub

We are proud to introduce you to OpenSpace! OpenSpace! An opportunity hub Starfish Foundation has worked very hard to bring this new...

Feb 17, 2019

Empowerment Program

Self-Defence and Empowerment Programme for Female Refugees Starfish Foundation continues their self defence project, which supports...

Jul 2, 2018

What an exciting ride!

Wow… what a ride! Read an account from a Starfish volunteer here: Nearly six months ago, here I was… arriving on the third biggest island...

May 31, 2018

300 Strollers

It all started in the busy summer of 2015, when hundreds of boats carrying refugees from Turkey landed on the shores of Lesvos. Jure and...

Apr 20, 2018

Trauma healing

By teaching healing techniques and engaging the refugees in wellness exercises, our volunteer hopes to empower those who are traumatized, de

Feb 21, 2018

Starfish’s Journey in 2017

Starfish Foundation continues to work hard to support vulnerable individuals on Lesvos. Here is a round-up of our activities in 2017....

Feb 12, 2018

Starfish Celebrates its First Wedding

Starfish Hears Wedding Bells Ring by Carol P. Christ Starfish Foundation was on hand to celebrate the wedding of Laura Scott and Stellios...

Dec 24, 2017

Arabella Dorman’s “Suspended”

Arabella Dorman’s “Suspended”: A Cry for Help by Carol P. Christ Starfish Foundation, a local NGO founded to help refugees and migrants...

Oct 24, 2017

Starfish activities – October

The single women, who reside at Moria camp, wished to have some mirrors in their section. Starfish searched to find the ones that aren’t...

Sep 7, 2017

Contact with family

Ahmed is a fifteen year-old Syrian refugee on the Greek island of Lesvos who is officially categorized as “an unaccompanied minor”: in...

Jul 6, 2017

Help us bring Food Aid to Lesvos Solidarity

Lesvos Solidarity runs the camp called Pikpa just outside the town of Mytilene. They offer on-site medical care, psychosocial assistance,...

May 12, 2017

Theresa Kachindamoto

Meet Paramount Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, the terminator of child marriage in central Malawi’s Dedza district. Help us raise $19,000 to...

Mar 20, 2017

Women who have transformed the World

Melinda McRostie, founder of Starfish Foundation, travelled to Segovia, Spain in March 2017 to attend and speak at the ‘Women who have...