Required language skills: English. Desirable language skills: Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish (Kurmanji and Surani) and French

Food boxes

Every morning Monday – Friday between 9:30 and 14:00 we distribute food to our residents so they can cook, be self-sufficient and live in a dignified manner. It’s important to conduct distribution fairly and sustainably based on our supplies, whilst also maintaining an inventory of the stock we have and orders we need to make.

To apply to volunteer with the food distribution team, click here.

Required language skills: English. Desirable language skills: Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish (Kurmanji and Surani) and French

Children’s activities and Kindergarten

We have daily schedules Monday-Friday for the camp’s children and are looking for people that can organise activities and operate within our current programme, which is based on the principles on the right to play and freedom of choice. Experience working with children including SEN desirable but not required.

Language support classes for children and adults

Our support centre in Mytilene, Mosaik, offers language classes to the adult residents as well as other members of the refugee, local Greek and international communities. These classes are led by professional language teachers. We do also offer support classes on camp, helping with homework, practicing conversations and teaching extra lessons.

Events and activities

To supplement day-to-day camp life we also run activities programmes, workshops and one off events. Examples include swimming lessons in the summer, arts and crafts, music sessions and movie nights. We are a small camp and unfortunately unable to provide funding or interpreters for any activities or events. All extra activities and events are subject to the needs and capacity on camp at any given time as well as team approval. We need volunteers who are flexible and can adapt to existing camp activity.

Communications

In order to promote our work, fundraise and engage with communities both on the island and around the world our communications team works with our residents and volunteers to follow local and international developments and communicate camp activity. Basic communications and social media experience essential.

To apply to volunteer with the activities and communications team, click here.

Required language skills: English. Desirable language skills: Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish (Kurmanji and Surani) and French.

Housing

Working closely with the case management team and the maintenance volunteers, this team is responsible for the preparation and allocation of Housing of residents on camp. In this team, we also provide everyday housing items from our free shop, kiosk and distribution space.

Distribution of non-food items

Also in our kiosk, residents can come to get hygiene and cleaning products. We run a distribution schedule so that we can keep track of what we distribute and if we need to ask for donations to cover gaps in our stock.

If they need clothes, our residents can come to our free shop by appointment only. Outside of the shop opening hours, stocks and donations need to be organised, managed and tracked.

Laundry

We have an onsite laundry inside our distribution space, the volunteers in the team update and facilitate our residents using the machines and doing their own laundry.

Maintenance/construction including carpentry

Our site maintenance team works Monday-Saturday to keep the camp safe and clean. There is always something to clean, paint, build or repair. Professional experience in plumbing, electrics and carpentry appreciated but not essential.

Gardening

We have several expanding gardens onsite. Volunteers work with residents to maintain and expand this site. Experience in gardening is appreciated but not essential.

To apply to volunteer with the camp sustainability team, click here.

If you are interested in running an activity, event, project or workshop with our residents, please contact us on activities.PIKPA@gmail.com and we will send you an application form. Please note; unfortunately we do not have funding to support external events or activities and all requests are subject to team approval and camp capacity.

Legal and psychosocial

We have an experienced team working on the legal and psychological issues and because of the confidentiality of our cases, do not currently accept volunteers in these spaces. Volunteers with studies or professional experience in these areas are of course welcome to apply to work in the volunteer spaces listed above.

Medical

We have two onsite nurses and one doctor based in Mytilene. Volunteer applications to support our medical team will only be considered if you:

• Are able to commit to a minimum voluntary period of 3 months
• Can provide relevant papers and certification (with references)
• Speak Greek and have a working knowledge of the Greek healthcare system
• Attend a 1 week trial period required of volunteers in this space

Please note all requests to support our medical team will be subject to a different application process, which may involve several interviews with different members of the team.

To offer specialist support, please email recruitment.lesol@gmail.com.