Refugee Lives Always Matter
I am a dual citizen of the US and Greece, and at present, am living half the year in the US and half in Greece. Since the great migration of Syrian, Afghani, Pakistani, Iraqi, and other refugees making the sea crossing from Turkey to Greece ---and on to northern EU countries ---began over two years ago, I have worked as a volunteer in various Greek refugee camps, both transient and "permanent." 
As we all know, there are now over 65,000 refugees "stuck" in Greece, living in about 40 camps scattered over the country, unable to continue on to other nations or go back home. I have become well aquainted with the politics, the circumstances, the problems and the movements of these people, and in particular, of their living situations. I have come to personally know many of the volunteers and their small, on-the-ground organizations that work tirelessly to make the lives of these refugees slightly better in pretty horrible and insecure circumstances. 
These small organizations are the groups that take up the work slack and fill in the human gaps that the larger, more cumbersome charities such as UNHCR and the Red Cross cannot -- or will not. They are on the ground every day, know their "residents" and their daily, personal needs, and learn to make-do and improvise with little or none at all governmental or NGO support or help. They are invaluable and essential to the difference between squalor and chaos and a semblance of order and hope.
In these two years, I have also raised small amounts of money from friends to donate to these groups, every bit of which goes directly to needed aid, with very minimal administrative costs.
I would like, in this GoFundMe effort, to act as a clearing house for those of you who want to donate funds but are not knowledgable about these smaller groups. I have followed about 8-10 of them who are doing excellent work: from setting up women's spaces to utilizing the existing talents of the residents in keeping the camp communities running; to sorting, storing and distributing clothing donations and setting up little schools for the little ones (1/3 of all the refugees in Greece are children); to establishing 
kitchens for the migrants to cook their own foods together and creating systems to help the migrants to figure out their legal statuses. If you are interested, please let me know through this site, and I will help match your donation with an appropriate group or effort.
In the name of transparency: Each of the 9 small non-profits has a website which has a donation page which works with either a credit card or a PayPal account. I will withdraw whatever amount we decide to donate to each one (when my page has accumulated enough) and transfer it either to their paypal account or to my private account where my credit card can be used for the donation.
Some of the organizations I know and have donated to are: DoYourPart, CRIBS, Amurtel Greece, Armando Aid, Khora, Lighthouse Relief, Sea of Solidarity, Campfire Innovation, Humanitarian Relief Agency. You are welcome to google them to read more details.
