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Despite a fire and a government shutdown, Lesvos Solidarity’s work continues, its founder says during the PC(USA)’s ‘Between Two Pulpits’ broadcast

Posted October 5th, 2022

More than 15 years ago, Efi Latsoudi moved from Athens, Greece, to Lesvos Island when she realized “there are refugees suffering and local society didn’t know much about it. No one was taking care of them. I wanted to know what was happening to them.” She founded Lesvos Solidarity, an organization that serves refugees and others and is supported in part by gifts to the Peace & Global Witness Offering, which many Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations received Sunday as part of World Communion Sunday.

Lesvos Solidarity provides hope for thousands of refugees

Posted November 7th, 2019

In the shadow of what many consider the worst refugee camp in Europe is a beacon of hope, operated mostly by volunteers, a group called Lesvos Solidarity.