Athens - Post Report Question and Answers
What volunteer opportunities are available locally?
Anything you could want, a lot with refugees and street animals. - Oct 2023
The refugee camp has lots of opportunities if you have the right connections. - Jan 2023
People work with the pet rescue groups, cats are everywhere. - Mar 2022
Soup kitchens, animal shelters, local charities, etc. - Jan 2020
Lots of volunteering opportunities, and can work with the refugee community in Athens. - Mar 2018
If you don't speak Greek you are out of luck. - Feb 2018
Plenty of volunteer opportunities with the refugees. Very rewarding. - Oct 2017
There are lots of opportunities available to work with refugees. - Jan 2017
There are number of opportunities open to expats. You can join an organization that does charity work such as the American Women's Organization of Greece (AWOG - http://awogreece.org) or get involved with the Newcomers in Athens organization when they do charity work (http://www.newcomersinathens.com/). Or you can participate in volunteer opportunities through church or an international school.
Caritas runs a soup kitchen in downtown, along with other programs focused on refugees (https://www.facebook.com/CaritasAthensRefugeeProgram/.
Melissa focuses on female migrant issues among others (https://www.facebook.com/Melissanetworkgreece33/)
Help out sea turtles in Greece by volunteering at the center in the south by the beach in Glyfada (http://www.archelon.gr/index_eng.php)
There is a dog shelter that is always looking for volunteers to socialize and play/walk the dogs (www.zofipsy.com) - Dec 2016
