Each year, we provide complete seasonal clothing to asylum seekers and refugees on Samos Island, recognising their extended stays, often 3 to 6 months or more in the closed-controlled access centre. In particular, the Syrian community now faces indefinite waiting periods, making long-term, equitable support essential.

Our summer fundraiser focuses on sustaining this effort, especially as children now make up 38% of the 3,000+ residents in the closed-controlled centre, creating new challenges in clothing young people aged 0–17.

We invite our extended SV Family and global community to participate through donations or our FILL-A-BOX CHALLENGE—packing practical and empowering clothing from your community to the Alpha community here on the island. By working together, we foster solidarity, dignity, and community-building across borders.

Pack with purpose this summer and help us cover the needs of our community on the island. 

Our Needs:

• At the moment, we are particularly in need of Men's clothing in sizes S and M. The items we need the most are short sleeves, long sleeves, trousers, and shorts in these sizes. We also want to provide a large stock of flip-flops for men in sizes 41, 42, and 43.

• For Women's clothing, we are looking to provide dresses, skirts, and loose trousers in sizes S, M, L and XL. We are also looking to increase our stock of hijabs or head scarves.

• We need to increase our stock of short sleeves, trousers, shorts, dresses, and skirts for both boys and girls, ages 2 - 10. We are also looking to increase our stock of summer shoes for children, sizes 20 - 32.

For the FILL-A-BOX challenge, ask your community to contribute to filling a box with one or more of each item!

You can ship it directly to Alpha Centre, and we can sort, clean and distribute the items and have them ready for picking at the free shop. We can build bridges, one box at a time!

Samos Volunteers - Alpha Centre
2 Dimitriou Petrou
83100, Samos
Greece

Samos Volunteers' work relies heavily on private donations, so we are extremely grateful for your support.

We use Donorbox as a platform to collect our donations for our general operational costs. You can donate by clicking the support button!

Bank transfer

You can also donate to us directly by using the details below.

Samos Volunteers
IBAN: ES36 2100 8133 1601 0029 1008
BIC: CAIXESBBXXX

(You can claim tax reduction for certain EU countries - such as Germany - after donating. Contact communications@samosvolunteers.org for a receipt.)

Thank you for your trust in our work.