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Ana Montojo

Volunteer at Café Rits

Your mind instantly travels Home when you cook and share food with those who love you. Watch Café Rits volunteer Ana Montojo reflect on how come the Kitchen is always the center of a community and the perfect environment for strangers to create empathy with each other.

Muhammad Bashar

Syrian, 33. Potter and Resident at Ritsona Camp

Muhammad thinks of education as their way out of war. He fled Syria, leaving behind a tribal and highly religious culture, for their children to acquire higher education. After leaving Aleppo, crossing the Kurdistan Irak and being held in a Turkish prison for 15 days, Muhammad and his family managed to arrive in Greece. Soon after his wife gave birth at the camp, he decided to start sowing to provide his family and feel somehow useful.

Salim Noah

Health Care inspector and former resident at Ritsona Refugee Camp

Back in Iraq, Salim was involved in sanitary prevention programs and volunteered at internally displaced people camps. He now lives with most of his family in Nantes, France and is currently looking for a job. Some months ago, he started painting and selling his art through the internet. He is also carrying out a documentary on his journey and his experiences as a Yazidi refugee in Europe.

Sausan

Mother and Former resident in Ritsona Refugee Camp

Syrian refugee. Home for her is stepping out of the door and seeing people that look alike her; a feeling of belongingness.

Carolynn Rockafellow

Founder of Café Rits and Retired Investment Banker

Caroline arrived at Ritsona refugee camp three days after it was set and decided to help by founding a food project that has brought the community together.

Katina Saoulli

I Am You Executive Manager

Katina believes that being a resident does not identify you, but it forms part of your personal history.  As the executive manager, Katina overseas all of I am You projects in Greece and ensures that all targets are met.

Ismael Noah

Painting instead of harming, positive thinking and finding home through family; those are the three messages that Ismael Noah shared with us after having spent five months in a refugee camp.

Talal Rankusi

Chef and former resident at Ritsona Refugee Camp

Back in Damasco, Talal cooked for up to 6000 people at one of the biggest restaurants in the world, Bawabet al Dimasq. Home for him is his family and he considers family everyone who cares enough to go for a tea.

Miguel Ángel Navarro Lashayas

Psychologist

Ph.D. in Contemporary International Migrations. Expert in mental health for ethnic minorities, political violence and natural catastrophes. Member of the board of directors of the Human Rights section of the Spanish Neuropsychiatry Association.

Miguel Ángel Navarro Lashayas

Psychologist

Ph.D. in Contemporary International Migrations. Expert in mental health for ethnic minorities, political violence and natural catastrophes. Member of the board of directors of the Human Rights section of the Spanish Neuropsychiatry Association.

Ismael Noah

Yazidi Iraqi. Economics and Management Graduate

Painting instead of harming, positive thinking and finding home through family; those are the three messages that Ismael Noah shared with us after having spent five months in a refugee camp.

Katina Saoulli

I am You Executive Manager

Katina believes that being a resident does not identify you, but it forms part of your personal history.  As the executive manager, Katina overseas all of I am You projects in Greece and ensures that all targets are met.

Talal Rankusi

Chef and former resident at Ritsona Refugee Camp

Back in Damasco, Talal cooked for up to 6000 people at one of the biggest restaurants in the world, Bawabet al Dimasq. Home for him is his family and he considers family everyone who cares enough to go for a tea.

Carolynn Rockafellow

Founder of Café Rits and Retired Investment Banker

Caroline arrived at Ritsona refugee camp three days after it was set and decided to help by founding a food project that has brought the community together.

Sausan

Mother and Former resident in Ritsona Refugee Camp

Syrian refugee. Home for her is stepping out of the door and seeing people that look alike her; a feeling of belongingness.

Salim Noah

Health Care inspector and former resident at Ritsona Refugee Camp

Back in Iraq, Salim was involved in sanitary prevention programs and volunteered at internally displaced people camps. He now lives with most of his family in Nantes, France and is currently looking for a job. Some months ago, he started painting and selling his art through the internet. He is also carrying out a documentary on his journey and his experiences as a Yazidi refugee in Europe.

Muhammad Bashar

Syrian, 33. Potter and Resident at Ritsona Camp

After leaving Aleppo, crossing the Kurdistan Irak and being held in a Turkish prison for 15 days, Muhammad and his family managed to arrive in Greece. Soon after his wife gave birth at the camp, he decided to start sowing to provide his family and feel somehow useful.

Helen

University Professor and Lighthouse Relief Volunteer

An International Relations Professor and wife to a Palestinian. She feels gardening establishes a connection between the European and Arabic cultures and makes a place become more of a Home. During her Stay at the camp, she also helped to organize the women and child safety spaces.

Isobel Russel

Traveler and independent volunteer

Isobel came to Ritsona to start a gardening project with the children. At the time, she had been traveling for about a year and a half and thinks of Home as any kind of connection to the world or the people in it. During her stay in the camp, she was helping at Café Rits.

Nidal

Former Syrian soldier and resident at Ritsona Refugee Camp
Nidal and his family left Damascus to find a safer life for them and their children. Home for him differs from homeland; he wishes to go back to Syria if everything calms down eventually, but finds Home anywhere with minimum health and security services. He got a matching tattoo with a soldier friend of him but now regrets it because more extremist Islamist now condemns getting one and can be dangerous having one.

Sahir Saido

IT student and former resident in Ritsona Refugee Camp

Iraki and Yazidi, Sahir and another 17 family relatives and neighbors left Iraq prior to the Yazidi Genocide on August 13th, 2014. Home for him is having his beloved ones around, independently of where they end up living at.