The day started slowly with me and my mom and 3 other volunteers keeping guard at the lighthouse beach. This is the beach where there are a couple of heated tents, a permanent presence of lifeguards and a relatively easy landing stretch for boats. We had the morning shift, from 7.00 to…
This week, we continue our series on Paris, City of Blight with another report from visual artist and Prosper volunteer Danika Jurisic. On Tuesday May 31, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo made international headlines by announcing plans for a new…
Today, Istanbul hosts the World Humanitarian Summit, providing a once in a generation opportunity for the global community to come together to agree how to better serve those left behind as a result of…
We are going to spend ~$500 million assisting in the fight against the Islamic State, to this point we have contributed nearly 100 military advisors and conducted between 2–3% of the airstrikes. At the same time, Canada and its allies are failing to provide the increased funding…
Elaine Scarry writes about how pain “exhausts and displaces all else, until it seems to become the…
Yesterday was a day of travel; we left London at noon and arrived at Lesbos at 20.30. After a brief loss of handbag(!), we managed to get our rental car (a Suzuki Jimmy — the cutest 4x4 ever!) and set off towards the northern side of Lesbos. We were lucky that we could follow…
