As a website designer as well as being a photographer, I make lots and lots of websites for a living. I’m also part of a charity that I helped set up called Refugees START, where we Support The Aid for Refugees Together. We happened to have the largest group of our charity members together and today was the day we hashed out a few campaigns we are going to specifically fundraise for.

It was a lively discussion with lots of back and forth but we got our goals, content and I got to work in making graphics, layouts and updating the website. Ta dah, our Donations Page has been updated! Whohooo, now for the hard part .. fundraising.

We also had the BIG general meeting of volunteers today led by Idomeni Volunteers and it was so great to see all the project leaders talking about their projects, their current status and also what they need help with. As part of that the main organiser for the independent volunteers stood up and asked for a website designer .. my digitally enhanced (read: hearing aids) perked up at this and I volunteered my services.

I’m cracking at making sandwiches and there is a great joy in knowing that the hard work I’ve done at The Hummus Rights Project will feed a few thousand people, of course as one person part of a big team doing so. It’s a great and lively project to help and yet .. I am a very good website designer and I think I can help far more people in volunteering to know about the information they need by making sure that there is a website to help guide them. As well as making the support crew’s lives easier!

So I volunteered and thus was nearly the end of the ‘website’ day!

While we were stood chatting to all the myriad of people at the end of the big volunteers meeting the guys that The Hummus Rights Project asked if we could help move some stock from the van onto their shop floor that they use. What I didn’t know until we arrived is that someone had donated an half van full load of baby food! Oh .. my .. gosh!

It was the best sight ever to see stacks and stacks of little jars, that are going to feed so many hungry mouths in Idomeni. I also took some quick shots of the eggs and boxes of nutritious Arabian flour wraps waiting for being made into meals the following day. I point out that it’s Arabian flour used in the wraps as they have a much higher concentration of protein in their wraps than we do in our plain white flour version.

Thank you for the baby food. We moved it gladly.