PROJECTS OVERVIEW
We have supported a variety of different projects , you can read a bit more about them below. What is important to us, is that although each of these projects have different goals, they all share our values of community, agency and transparency. They all rely on funding from individuals either making donations or putting on fundraising events! Unlike large INGO’s, at MASS Action our operating costs and overheads are very low, meaning more funds can go directly to projects on the ground. If you run a project and would like to know more about how to get support from us, please email admin@massaction.charity
African Rainbow Family (ARF), UK
ARF is a Registered Charity set up and run by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTIQ) refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK. They provide inclusive LGBTIQ safe space for practical and social activities for mutual support, empowerment and solidarity.
Forge For Humanity, Greece
Forge operates primarily as an information hub from a small space in central Athens, sharing much-needed knowledge about the asylum process, and offering information on accessing Greek government and non-profit services.
Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group (CARAG), UK
CARAG is a Community Organisation run by Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Migrants with the help of local volunteers. They usually have no family in UK and CARAG is their family. Politics is central to any Migrants experience, as such CARAG is involved in numerous local and national Immigration and Human Rights campaigns.
Play Up! , Greece
Kids Klub works to establish safe play and learning spaces within the informal living spaces of families who came to Athens as asylum seekers. Kids Klub consists of a team of volunteers who run daily play and learning sessions for children. The aim of Kids Klub is to provide spaces (classrooms, family spaces, outside playgrounds), for children and their parents to come to play and to learn.
Free Movement Skateboarding, Greece
Free Movement Skateboarding are a non-profit organisation who provide access to meaningful sport to empower underprivileged youth and bring communities together. Operating in Athens, they offer skateboarding workshops and an educational program which focus on improving physical and mental wellbeing, promoting gender parity and aiding integration.
Khora, Greece
Khora is a volunteer-led organisation based in Athens, which aims to provide services and create community spaces for people who have been forced from their homes because of oppression, poverty, climate change and war.
Becky's Bathhouse, Greece
Becky’s Bathhouse is a women and children’s centre and shower facility serving families residing in Moria camp on the island of Lesvos. As well as providing hot showers, their primary aim is to create a safe, warm, and welcoming place for women and children to disengage from the everyday realities of Moria.
LGBT UNITY Glasgow, Scotland
LGBT UNITY GLASGOW is comprised of Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Glasgow with approximately 150 members in the group, from different cultural backgrounds in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Middle East and Russia. They aim to tackle isolation and the barriers to integration put in place by the state for those subject to immigration control. Often people must make decisions between essentials things such as food and clothing or maintaining ties with friends, relatives, and community groups, because of the financial barriers to travel, the group attempts to fill these gaps by providing financial support to members.
Infomobile, Greece
Infomobile meets people, shares information and creates resources, provides support, documents human rights violations and has been connecting people since 2009. The 'news' section of their website documents from the last decade: police violence in Patras, pushbacks in Evros, evictions in Igoumenitsa and raids in Idomeni. Infomobile has been documenting and denouncing the return of people seeking protection to Greece under the Dublin Regulations, conditions in camps and on the island hotspots, lack of access to adequate reception conditions and many other injustices that people seeking protection in Greece face.
Swansea Asylum Seekers Support, UK
SASS provides lifeline services for and with the majority of asylum seekers in the Swansea area.
‘Our motto is Newcomers and Locals United’
Lesvos LGBTIQ+ Refugee Solidarity, Greece
This project aims to build community by providing a safe space for LGBTIQ+ refugees in Lesvos, where everyone is free to express their sexuality and/or gender identity in an environment of mutual support and respect, without fear of judgment or harm. Uniting in a non-hierarchical collective of LGBTQI+ refugees, volunteers, activists, single mothers, people who were formerly incarcerated, survivors of violence, locals, and allies who work together to build solidarity and mutual support on the island of Lesvos.
Migrant Organising for Rights and Empowerment, UK
MORE is a migrant led grass-roots organisation based in Glasgow. They were established in 2018 -the four main strands of their work are campaigning for Asylum Seekers to access education, employment, decent housing and to be treated with dignity. Their core values are anchored in acknowledging valuing and celebrating the individual and collective lived experience and potential of asylum seekers and refugees as the only experts in matters that impact their lives, their families and their communities and consequently best placed to inform and guide meaning change’.
Mazí Housing Project
Mazi’s work focuses on housing young single men largely left out of the system and left homeless in Athens. Their mission is to provide accommodation, material and social support to young male migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees without family in Athens who are currently homeless. Their project provides safety as well as being a stepping stone that gives residents the opportunity to move on to the next chapter in their lives.
Women of Colour Global Women's Strike
Formerly known as Black Women for Wages for Housework (founded by an ex-Panther and immigrant welfare rights organiser) focusing on anti-racist, anti-deportation, welfare rights and climate justice movements. They plan to fund a research project that will produce two fact sheets in e-pamphlet and hard copy form on the theme of 'Theft of Africa and the Indian Sub-Continent' from the perspective of women of colour, responding to migrants' experiences of lack of recognition that 'we are here because you were there'.
