About Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need

Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need is a US and Greek registered non-profit that seeks to help support refugees in Greece regain stability and autonomy over their lives. Using art as a means for self-expression and a tool for economic independence, our work strives to give refugees a platform through which to express themselves, share their experiences, and forge relationships with both a local and global community. In addition to supporting refugees, we strive to educate the public about the struggles refugees face; to humanize the refugee experience; and to generate compassion and empathy for all people in this world.

​We additionally raise funds for, purchase, and distribute material aid to fill the immediate and unmet needs of these and other refugees. This aid includes but is not limited to tents and sleeping bags for refugees sleeping outside, temporary housing for particularly vulnerable individuals and their families, hygiene products for women and children, and food for refugees with no financial aid that are living in camps and housing communities.

What we do

Our main operation consists of facilitating art workshops and the sale of refugee-created art. With the donations of generous individuals around the world we purchase art supplies from local, Greek vendors that our volunteers on the ground take to our artists in the camps around Greece. Our volunteers host workshops in their homes and the tents of the artists in the camps. In a process of self-empowerment these soulful individuals heal the trauma of recent years through the self-reflection, self-expression, and storytelling power of the creative process. Their creations are then transported by volunteers to cities around the world  where they organize exhibitions and sell the art. One hundred percent of the profits from the sale of each piece of art is returned to the artist.