The First Lighthouse Relief Poetry Competition

Lighthouse Relief has always been deeply invested in education. Indeed, in Ritsona camp, we provide two safe spaces for psychosocial support, activities, games, and non-formal education programmes for children and youth.
Many of our team are educators and child development specialists, so our work is guided by a strong passion for education.

Many of the children and youth we assist remain outside of the Greek education system, this is despite the school year starting at the beginning of September.

Other children are receiving an education, although this is hampered with them lacking knowledge of the Greek language, school supplies, and in many cases a nutritious lunch. We are hoping to change this, but we need your help.

We know that our passion for education is shared by many. In honour of this, and in honour of UNESCO’s #RightToEducation campaign, we excited to launch our first poetry competition.

The Rules

We’re looking for poems that fit the theme of “what education means to me” how you interpret this is entirely up to you.

The maximum length is 25 lines long.

How To Enter.

To enter, simply make a 10 Euro Donation on our website.
Once you have done so, take a screenshot of the donation, then send your poem with your name (or pen name) with the screenshot to comms.intern@lighthouserelief.org.

We guarantee that every bit of your donation will go towards helping the children and young people of Ritsona camp. To put your donation in perspective, the 10 Euros it takes to enter the competition is enough to provide a child with some key supplies and a quality lunch.

Prizes — become a published poet!
1) The winning poem will be featured on all our social media profiles, our blogging page, our next newsletter and will receive a personalised message of thanks.

2) Second place up will your poem featured on our blogging page

3) 5 Runners-up will receive a personal message of thanks.

All entries will have a powerful impact on our work.

Selection Committee

Your poems will be carefully read by a team of poetry experts and enthusiasts. Some of whom are themselves, experienced poets. So whether you are writing poetry for the first time, or are an experienced poet. You can be safe in the knowledge that your poem will be read by people who have a passion for poetry and are excited to read your work.

Deadline

The Deadline is 1st December 2018, the winner announced soon after.
So get writing