On behalf of MDM Greece, I would like to sincerely thank you for your support and collaboration we have with Attika Human Support throughout the last years. Your willingness to support our work and consequently all the patients who seek our help through our health interventions/programs in Lesvos is of great significance. Thanks to you, we were able to provide NFIs and other essential goods for those in need, both refugees and Greeks, in Lesvos. Confident that you will continue to provide your services, we thank you once again and we remain at your disposal.

We have worked alongside Attica warehouse in the crisis situation in Greece now for around 6 years, and consider them one of the best organisations around. They’re professional, determined, and organised to a level that surpasses near all other distribution groups. Distribution is one of the hardest provisions to run and even harder to run well, but Attica team have managed it flawlessly. They have an unwavering respect for everyone they work with including those in need of support as well as partner organisations. We hold them in the highest regard and consider them friends as well as colleagues. 10 out of 10.

Better Days and Attika have been working together since 2015. During this time, Attika has contributed incredible value to Better Days work by ensuring that the people we work with receive essential non-food items and are kept warm during the winter months. At Gekko, Attika supplied our students with daily nutritious snacks donated by Juice Plus. At TAPUAT, our storage was equipped with enough diapers, toys and baby food for all mothers with infants. During Covid19 we worked tirelessly together to provide Moria’s staff, volunteers and residents with masks and disinfectants and respond to other emergencies. During our many years of work with homeless unaccompanied asylum seeking children, Attika has stood by our side and made it possible for us to distribute basic but critical aid such as warm clothes, shoes, underwear, LUSH soap, and much more. In Moria we did not only distribute emergency clothing packs to hundreds of children, and thousands of tents to families living on the olive groves, we also worked along other actors to put an end to the scabies epidemic which make it possible for children to travel and receive shelter and care in more appropriate environments than the camps. It is impossible to not admire the hard-work, resilience and commitment of the staff and volunteers of Attika, working around the clock so that millions worth of essentials such as clothing and hygiene products donated from far away make it inside the camps and across Greece in support of disadvantaged communities and other non-profit organizations.

Valuable collaborations strengthen our efforts to give hope and dignity to hundreds of women who seek refuge at the SAO Day Centres for Displaced Women on Lesvos and in Athens. Attika Human Support has been supporting us since 2017 with valuable donations of seasonal clothes, hygiene products and other items that make a difference to the everyday lives of women who need assistance during the arduous journey of healing and independence.

With Aris and Attika Human Support we have cooperated from the beginning of this crisis. Always the Attika team is next to us and has, for so many years, provided emergency support to our organization. Fast and reliable always !! We are proud to have Attika as partners and we are grateful for all their efforts to help on Lesvos but as well many organizations like us on Chios. I will never forget the day that we had fires in Vial camp and they sent their van full of supplies for the people that was desperately needed. Organizations like Attika is vital to Greece and need support always to continue these huge operations for people in need.  

The Board of Directors of Hellenic Rescue Team of Attika, would like to express our deepest gratitude to AHS for your active support and unselfish contribution to HRTA throughout 2021. In particular, we wish to thank Attica Human Support for the sponsorship of the yearly circulation taxes for both HRTA vehicles, your kind permission to use space in your warehouse in Attica region for our rescue vessel and trailer, as well as for the use of AHS’s van to transfer necessary rescue equipment for a number of days. Your overall support is a great contribution to HRTA’s efforts and enhances our voluntary work on the search and rescue of humans being in need or danger.

Just Action has been collaborating with Attika Human Support since December 2020. As needs in terms of hygiene articles arose back then, we started looking at different options to meet peoples’ basic needs. Reaching out to Aris turned out to be a turning point to our daily operations. Instead of writing long emails to ask further information, he immediately told us to call him to introduce ourselves and settle an order. That phone call turned out to become the start of an amazing collaboration. Since the initial order, Attika continued supporting us every time we needed NFIs. While being so responsive, flexible, and non-bureaucratic, the enabled us to focus on our daily actions. This great support makes a significant impact to all our service users, locals and refugees alike. Thanks to their continuous effort, we are able to provide all of them shampoo, wet wipes, toothpaste, toothbrushes and many more things. While many are unable to purchase these products, Attika actively chooses to act and give back some dignity to displaced and local communities.

Space-Eye has been working with Attika Human Support for two years. Since then, we have sent dozens of containers with relief goods to Lesbos and Athens to Attika’s warehouses. Since summer 2021, we have also been supporting Attika Human Support’s sea rescue with the lifeboat “Nomad”. The cooperation with Attika is extraordinarily professional and friendly and for the benefit of the common cause. 

For us at Better Life with Refugees the collaboration with Attika Human Support is very important!!!  Since we opened the free shop in Athens a year ago this organization has supported us with at least 30 percent of the donations received. Without their help it would have been truly impossible to deal with the emergency in Athens. With their help it was possible for us to help with basic necessities at least 1000 families in a vulnerable or very vulnerable situation in Athens. There are many more families or individuals in need. Maybe 10,000 or more. This is why we know very well the importance of this collaboration and of international cooperation from below.  If this were to end, it would truly be a disaster for many people who live in an emergency situation due to their living conditions.  Thanks, and come on.  Hope is the last to die. Union is strength. 

Having the support of Attika warehouse has improved our street work service and in general our beneficiary’s life. Attika has been providing us with Non-Food Items for people experiencing homelessness or living under precarious conditions in Athens since the beginning of 2021. In addition, we had a few situations in which we needed very specific and difficult items to find, Attika was very responsive, attentive to details and efficient to provide and deliver it very quickly. The Street work team and especially our beneficiaries have expressed gratitude for all the support provided from the Attika warehouse team. Thanks for the amazing and hard work.

We have worked with the Attika team on numerous occasions in the past two years and have built a strong relationship with their main actors. We could not dream of a better partnership to take this project forward. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Attika team for their enthusiasm and trust.

Open Hearts Open Borders – Refugee Aid is very proud to be working and partnering with Attika Human Support. The dedication and commitment that they show to get aid across the camps on the Greek Islands is not only admirable but also incredibly humbling. They have shown the meaning of humanity and compassion to the world in the work that they do. It is an honour to be working alongside them. They have been very transparent in the work they do and they keep us updated with news and pictures which we can send to our supporters.  As a collective of different groups across the southwest of England we hope to continue to support Attika in the foreseeable future so they can continue with their commitment to getting aid to where it is needed.

I first met Attika in autumn of 2015 and was very much impressed by how professionally their team handled the incoming donations and their distribution. We have delivered a lot of donated materials from Germany to Attika and helped in the distribution on the island. Since then I have always stayed in touch, and I have recognized how important Attika is as an independent distribution hub for Lesbos and Chios. In my opinion Attika Human Support is one of the most critical links in the chain of support for asylum seekers on these islands.

Help Refugees are an extremely proud partner of Attika Human Support. Their dedication to getting necessary aid to people in need all across the Greek islands is incredible. They quickly reach those that desperately need support. Their team is so committed to the work they do and is a strong pillar in the grassroots community on Lesvos.

Donations come from our friends and we take the responsibility seriously to pick projects that provide impact in improving people’s lives. With your help, we are able to make our monthly donations to Attika Human Support so that Aris Vlahopoulos and team can pay for fuel to distribute donated goods all across Lesvos.