Today is a day of joy, dance and laughter in Greece ... It’s the Carnival Sunday, the day that marks the end of carnival season and the beginning of a 40 Day fasting period for the Greek Orthodox Christians until Easter -the day that celebrates love and hope for life....
Attika Human Support and Three Peas are delighted to announce their collaboration on a much needed housing programme on Lesvos. Three Peas will fund the rental of a house for refugees and asylum seekers while Attika will manage the smooth running of the operations on...
Perched halfway up on a hill a few kilometres north of Mytilini, on the Island of Lesbos, stands the One Happy Family (OHF), a community centre for refugees and asylum-seekers from the nearby camps of KaraTepe and Moria. Built to accommodate 3000, more than 6000...
In the spring of 2016, Giorgos Patlakas was driving along the road to Moria village on the island of Lesbos. He caught sight of a group of young men, running by the roadside. Refugees from the nearby Moria camp, was his first thought. “As an ex-football player myself,...
Peas. Books. Kindness. The Three Peas team would like to wish you all a happy new year and all the best for 2019! We have some good Three Peas news… Three Peas is delighted to announce that Alison Green Books at Scholastic is to publish KIND, a book on kindness for...
Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German-Jewish poet and author Music "writes" in the soul of each of us something different, depending on the personality, the experiences, but also the mood of the moment. Music can lift you up... it can...
Illustrations from the Refugee Crisis. If you are around Kings Cross, London, go to the wonderful House of Illustration and have a look at this great exhibition, the first UK exhibition to explore the so called refugee crisis through illustration. Journeys Drawn:...
Three Peas would like to say a big thank you to all the young fundraisers who are supporting us. From Nellie’s lavender sale to Frida’s flee market stall, from Leni’s gingerbread sale to waffle-making gang members Ruby, Levi & their friends, thank you. [gallery...
(Text in Deutsch im Anschluss) Happy news! This week a truck fully packed with 462 BRAND NEW pushchairs, 70 pram bodies and 39 car seats (altogether worth an impressive 200 000 euros) will leave Germany for Lesvos. Grateful hurray to this generous, kind-hearted,...
Dear friends and supportersWelcome to the latest ThreePeas NewsletterMoria Camp, Lesbos“Moria camp, in Lesbos, has a maximum capacity of 3,100 people, but is bursting at the seams, with over 9,000 people. A third of them are children, living in appalling conditions,...