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We are Attika
We are a strongly committed family helping to give dignity and hope to every human in need caught up in the unending humanitarian crisis of displaced people escaping from war and terror. Attika human Support runs two large warehouses in Athens and Lesvos to receive and distribute incoming aid donations, We playa vital role in the distribution of humanitarian aid across Athens, Thessalonik, Larissa, Corinth, Lesvos, Chios, Samos, and Kos. Displaced people often with little personal belonging. They need warm dry clothes and shoes to survive the cold and rainy winters and lightweight clothing and shoes for the hot summer months. Personal hygiene items are always in needed along with baby needs, especially diapers. Donors who send food, clothes, shoes, hygiene, tents, baby needs, towels, blankets and other personal items to Greece, ship directly to Attika. The Attika team then sorts, delivers, or arranges collection for the other supporting NGOs who in turn distributes directly as part of their own assistance programs.
Like most families we support those most in need on our team, our community volunteers, with medical and legal aid, food and housing as required.
Our Projects
We are a strongly committed family sending DIGNITY and HOPE to every human in need on Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Athens and across Greece.
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Meet the Team
One of the cornerstones of Attika Human Support is our great team. Some of us are ourselves displaced people now living on Lesvos or in Athens.
Wherever we have come from, we bring with us a wealth of knowledge and experience.
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.
Sea of Solidarity, USA
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.
Freya Mergler – Field Manager (Greece), Help Refugees, UK
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.
Andreas Mueller-Hermann, Philanthropist, Germany
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.
Faraday Fearnside, Director OHOB
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.
THREE PEAS help make a difference
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.
Lourdes Tello – Emergency Response Coordinator, Light House Relief, Athens
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.
Better Life with Refugees, Athens
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.
Space-Eye e.V., Germany
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.
Just Action Samos
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.
Spiridon Chrysanthopoulos – Hellenic Rescue Team of Attica
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.