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Jun 7, 2021
We've got some big news!
In April of 2021, a shelter for vulnerable migrant women and their children on Lesvos was at risk of closing down. The organisation...
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 14, 2021
An introduction to #SafeHands
On March 11, 2020 the World changed. That was the day the WHO Secretary General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the...
Nov 4, 2020
After the fire..
We think we can all agree that 2020 has not been an easy year to navigate through; the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has created a...
Feb 17, 2019
Empowerment Program
Self-Defence and Empowerment Programme for Female Refugees Starfish Foundation continues their self defence project, which supports...
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...
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...
Feb 23, 2017
Mobile phone as a tool
Yesterday- 22.02.2017- was such a happy and moving day for the Starfish team, thanks to Help Refugees U.K. Without their support we...
Jan 4, 2017
The Beast
We are so happy to announce that the “Beast”, as many of our past volunteers know our nine-seater bus, has been put to good use at Lesvos...
Nov 30, 2016
November news
Since our decision to scale down operations in May 2016—because of reduced refugee arrivals on the north shore of Lesvos in the wake of...
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