Our fundraising efforts were big but it has become harder and harder to fundraise for our project in Greece and we didn’t manage to attain our financial goal.

We will thus have to – unfortunately – stop our One Happy Family activities in Athens by the end of February 2024.
The need to provide places of community, especially for refugees, continues but unfortunately we cannot secure and stabilise our part anymore. Even though we will no longer be part of this meaningful work, the Victoria Community Center, which we founded in 2022 together with our partner organisations, will continue to exist.

We want to invite you to continue following and supporting the activities of our partner organisations in Athens as they do amazing work and we’re happy to know that for now the Victoria Community Center will keep its doors open through their joint efforts, just without One Happy Family.

Support the partner organisations, links via our website: https://ohf.gr/en/about-us/
Support the running of the Victoria Community Center directly: https://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/keep-the-victoria-community-center-open/

We are going to share some of our favourite memories during the next weeks on our social media channels and hope you’ll join us in this ride through One Happy Family’s history.

Thank you for your continuous interest and support regarding the situation of people on the move in Greece.
We never thought that this small grassroot project would last for seven years and would last so long and be an important and positive support and resource for so many different people from so many different countries.
We are very grateful to all those from near and far who made this possible.
We won’t forget the people in Greece or elsewhere, nor all of you, nor all the moments experienced that are deeply engraved in our hearts.

Thank you for the last seven years that you’ve supported the people in Greece (Lesvos and Athens) and One Happy Family.
Thank you for continuing to share the spirit of “coming together – learning from each other”!