Students of Groningen against heartless handling of refugees
There is a place where ten-year olds try to commit suicide, where people get bitten by rats and where the police shoots teargas at children. There is a place where students like us seek refuge from war and regret ever leaving the warzone.
This place lies in the European Union. It’s a refugee camp called Moria. As students of Groningen, living and studying in the EU this is also happening in our names.
Moria was built to fit less than 3.000 people, now there are about 12.500 people living inside and around the borders. Many families, men, women, even unaccompanied children flee from war, seek shelter and get to Moria. When they think they reached safe ground, the misery only starts:
This video is from 2018. The conditions now aren‘t better. They are worse. On September 9th a fire started in the camp, destroying the last bit of shelter the refugees had. The conditions are now worse than before:
A Short Story of Moria (there are English subtitles available)
Recently the EU committee presented an asylum reform. It is supposed to speed up the asylum procedures, so the people can be evacuated from the overcrowded camps. The only problem is, even if it will be effective (which is not exactly a given), it won’t be implemented until 2023. Children have been attempting suicide already in 2018. It has been an urgent problem then, and it still is now.
While we enjoy our student life in the EU, sipping beers at Grote Markt, this is happening just three flight hours away. Just by chance of luck we are on the inside. There are students like us who are on the outside. We should not be ok with this.
Through this donation, we as the students of Groningen could make a statement. All students together we are about 60.000 in Groningen. The lowest possible donation on this website is 5€, this is not even as much as two beers.
We are not ok with what is happening on our borders, this is why we collect money for the UNHCR Nederland.
5€ could provide essential emergency food and water packages
15€ could provide a sleeping bag, blanket and sleeping mat to protect refugees from the cold weather
300€ could provide emergency temporary shelter for a refugee family
Donate now 
