GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE: From Career Woman To Refugee – The 1,500 Mile Journey Of One Syrian Mother Corinne Redfern 13:36 | 03 Dec 2015 What drives a woman to leave her home and country in the dead of night and become a refugee? Corinne Redfern travelled from Greece to Germany with pregnant Aysha and her two...
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Update on Lesvos, Greece: October 28th, 2015
The SCM team in Molyvos experienced a great tragedy today. At 10a.m. this morning, SCM responded to an SOS call in regards to a wooden boat capsizing off the northern shores of Lesvos. It is reported that the Greek Coast Guard and various fishing boats retrieved 242 individuals from the sea, but it is estimated...
Diary Entries from Lesvos – October 10th-18th
Dear All, Please see below for our daily escapades. Best Wishes & Salaam, Zoya Day 1 Today we received a full handover from Hina, Sabrina, Basel, and Daoud. Hina and Sabrina informed us of their current set up which largely involved slotting into the medical tent of Waha. They used only their own supplies and...
Diary Entries from this Week’s Mission to Lesvos
Before moving forward, SCM would like to extend our gratitude to our volunteers that have done so much since the start of these missions. They are humanitarians in the true sense and we couldn’t be more grateful for their efforts. We’d also like to take a moment to recognize David Swissa, who has been leading the...
First Mission to Lesvos Wraps Up
As the second team arrives today, and the prior one departs- we look at the past week and couldn’t be more proud of David, Zohab and Dr. Zahra for delving straight into work and exceeding our expectations. David will be staying on to welcome the new arrivals and volunteer through the week as well! Please...
Updates from SCM volunteers on the ground in Lesvos, Greece
We are incredibly proud of our first official team in Lesvos, Greece. They are currently working on the northern shore of Lesvos, where refugees are landing by boat. SCM Team manned the Sikaminea’ Al-Zahara post from 13:00 after Al-Zahara team took a break, where they serviced 3 boats around 11:00. We cleaned/tidied up site and...
Container Send-Off; From Seattle to Jordan
On Saturday, August 1st we were able to properly load and send off a 20ft shipping container full of donated supplies. As many of you know, we were preparing for this moment for over a month! Sorting through humanitarian donations, creating infant kits for Zaatari’s delivery center, picking up large donations of medical supplies and...
SCM Facilitates Cancer Medication Donation to Jordan
SCM is proud to announce that this month, we were able to facilitate the donation of $250,000 worth of cancer medication to the King Hussein Hospital and it’s various centers in Jordan. The medications were donated by Direct Relief, who had partnered with us during our March 2015 Medical Mission. These medications are highly needed at this crucial...
Ramadan Distribution Close to an End
In just one day, SCM was able to distribute food parcels to cover 2,200 individuals’ meals for one month. Our food parcels include chicken, lentils, rice, other nutrient rich options as well as household staples. We have officially exhausted our funds from our campaign. SCM is extremely grateful and appreciative of everyone that has donated,...
Clothing Drive a Huge Success!
We would like to thank everyone who helped out with our clothing/soft goods drive last month. All the efforts and donations really paid off. We broke the record at Value Village for the amount of donations and received a check today for $2842.40! You donated over 14,000 pounds of clothing, bedding, accessories, towels, etc! The...