Refugees and Art

While Utah is experiencing beautiful fall weather, we are still seeing flowers blooming in Greece.  It is like someone flipped a switch however, and it is cold in the early and late hours.  

Today we were going to an Open House for a NGO we are supporting in Athens.  They were displaying art done by the families of refugees that are detained and need a place to stay.  We circled the block several times after walking 1 1/2 miles from the metro.  We finally called and found out that the Art Display would not be until tomorrow.  We were quite disappointed.  We found out that they had college students from Pennsylvania that were helping at the center.  We walked another mile and arrived in time to meet the students that had not only come to serve but to document some of the artists that were being feature in the show.  The NGO takes the art work all over the world for display and to sell.  All the money goes to the artist.  We were able to see the art work of a refugee from Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Iraq.  They talked to us about what they had painted.  One artist said that he had made enough money from the sale of his art to support himself and his wife.  

We were very happy that we were able to see how our support was helping some of the refugees that are detained in Athens.  It was the best missed out on that one day ever.