Josh Newton

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Category - Volunteering in Greece

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Op-Ed: For Europe’s refugees, volunteers can make all the difference

February 22, 2016
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By Joshua Newton February 21, 2016, 5:00 AM Tabakika was once a tobacco factory. Now it’s a dust filled, dimly lit, altogether dreary overflow center for refugees on the Greek island of Chios where many spend their first night...

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Refugee crisis media roundup – 8 February

February 8, 2016
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On the rumor front, what I’ve heard on various FB pages and from a friend who works on Lesvos, is that the Greek Coast Guard has started to meet the refugees boats as they enter Greek waters and are offloading them from the...

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As Schengen crumbles – Refugee crisis news roundup

February 2, 2016
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We’ll see how this goes… Since the writing about volunteering has ended, yet I’m still following everything as closely as I can back on Chios and the refugee trail, I thought I would try to do a small news roundup of the...

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Chios is not the only “island” along the refugee route: Athens

January 23, 2016
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While I was on Chios volunteering, the rest of the refugee route was shrouded in a veil of mystery. You would hear rumors about what was happening in different places. There is definitely news on the refugee crisis, but...

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A thank you to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

January 21, 2016
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I arrived on Chios, Greece as an independent volunteer almost completely ignorant of what was being done there, what the needs were (besides beach duty, which I was reading about in the press) and who was working there. I was...

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Takeaways from volunteering in Greece

January 18, 2016
by Josh
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I don’t believe there is anything brilliant or earth-shattering in what I’ve learned from my experience volunteering on Chios. In many ways, it wasn’t what I learned, but what I remembered or realized for the umpteenth time...

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Good-bye to Chios, for now

January 16, 2016
by Josh
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For many years now, I’ve always said that home is where I sleep since I’ve been lacking anything close to permanent for a very long time. Even if I’m staying somewhere, a hotel or with friends, for a day or two, I will...

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Final GoFundMe purchase list

January 15, 2016
by Josh
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My last day of work is in the books and I honestly have not had time to think about it yet. That will be for another day and for another post. I finished spending all the GoFundMe campaign contributions. All the purchases have...

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The images that have stuck, Part II

January 14, 2016
by Josh
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Yesterday, I wrote about the images that have struck me since my time on Chios. I now will continue with Part II. The actor There was one night about two weeks ago when I helped serve food outside of Souda, the post-registration...

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The images that have stuck, Part I

January 13, 2016
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My time is winding down here on Chios. Tomorrow is my last day of “work.” Friday, I’m going to go to Çesme, Turkey for the day to check out what things are like on that side of the strait. On Saturday, I fly to Athens. I...

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