The dirty girls of Lesvos

Dirty girls of Lesvos

Today I received a special envelop that was promised to me after I made a donation to a wonderful group op people called the dirty girls of Lesvos that make a difference on the island of Lesvos. This island, apart from the island community, houses thousands of refugees and asylum seekers in camp Moria.

Social media are able to show us almost everything that happens around us. When the Corona epidemic came to Greece I thought of all of those thousands of people living, packed together, in difficult circumstances. Fortunately there are organisations that help out there.
This information below is from the website of the dirty girls.

Dirty Girls was initiated in 2015, so that good quality wet and dirty clothing discarded by thousands of people fleeing war and terror, arriving by sea on the island of Lesvos, would not be trashed.

Dirty Girls washes (to hospital standards), blankets, sleeping bags and other materials so that they can be reused, rather than the present practices of most International Non Government Organisations – the cavalier trashing of all materials and replacement with new ones.

Dirty Girls takes the materials from discarded life jackets and upcycles them into messenger bags.

The life jackets have been worn by people, fleeing war and inhumane conditions, making the treacherous sea crossing from Turkey to Lesvos in overcrowded flimsy boats. The jackets are filled with fake life preserving material, which means they won’t save people’s lives. Every jacket used represents a person who has survived a journey that too many haven’t. Each bag has a different, one off design; representing the fact that each refugee is a person with an individual life story. Donations from bags are used for washing blankets.

Dirty girls website
They are also on Facebook.