Here’s How We Spent Your $117,686!

Action for Women summer camp

Sophia at Saffron Kitchen Project

Children at Parea Community Center’s garden, which Humanity Now is funding this summer

Maria from We Are Monitoring

The recipient of new prosthetics

A workshop by Bay Area Resource for Newcomers

In Her Vision’s mobile eye clinic

We’ve just completed our Spring 2026 Funding Cycle. You were very generous, allowing us to support many worthy projects. As always, Humanity Now works with humanitarian aid teams to identify gaps in their funding. Our grants are meant to fill those gaps, strengthening and broadening these teams’ effectiveness.

We’re very grateful for your support and we hope you’ll be satisfied with the list that follows. In case you’re wondering as you read, the unusual dollar amounts for funding reflect currency conversion rates.

Here’s What You Funded in Greece:

• Action for Women (Athens): $2331 covered the cost of a two-week summer camp for adolescent girls, most of whom are refugees and immigrants.

• AMURTEL/AMAMÉ (Athens): $5025 funded transition costs as this project becomes a community-led, peer-support organization for refugee, migrant, and Greek mothers.

• Collective Aid (Lesvos): $6028 purchased underwear and socks for residents of a refugee camp and covered two months of warehouse costs and salary for the program manager.

• Crisis Management Association (Lesvos): $6525 paid two months’ salary for the medical coordinator and two months’ medication for residents of a refugee camp

• Europe Cares (Lesvos): $7415 covered three months’ general expenses and six months of costs for an herb, flower, and vegetable garden, all at Parea Community Center, which welcomes hundreds of daily visitors from a nearby refugee camp.

• Equal Legal Aid (Thessaloniki): $3500 paid six months’ rent for the organization, which provides asylum assistance and other legal services to refugees and migrants in Northern Greece.

• Lighthouse Relief (Corinth): $4205 helped fund a summer sports pilot program for residents of a refugee camp, including vehicle rent and various associated expenses; the grant also covered expenses for a summer community garden for camp residents.

•Northern Lights Aid (Kavala): $3086 covered diaper distribution for a Baby Support Program and three months’ stipend for the team’s distribution coordinator.

• Qatrah (London-based Afghan relief organization): $505 funded an emergency distribution to pay internet fees so that a mother in Kabul can communicate with her teenage daughter, who is alone in Greece following the death of her father.

• SafePlace Greece (Athens): $5025 funded four-month housing grants for 12 refugees and migrants from the LGBTQ+ community.

• Saffron Kitchen Project (Athens): $6839 covered two needs: tuition for 15 migrants and refugees to complete a culinary-training certification program and funding for 8300 meal distribution containers.

• Velos Youth (Athens): $5510 paid nine months’ salary for a part-time Arabic language translator to help newly arrived young people from Sudan.

• Welcome Office Lesvos (Lesvos): $4665 supplied food vouchers and medication to 50 beneficiaries, mostly families, living in short-term emergency housing.

Here’s What You Funded in Poland:

• Alliance for Black Justice (Warsaw): $3220 paid for six months of legal aid and social service casework for Black migrants and refugees in Poland.

• Association of Folk Culture Lovers (Czeremcha): $5030 provided emergency and basic support (clothing, food, phones, etc.) for approximately 70 asylum seekers, plus it helped fund prosthetics for a young asylum seeker who suffered extreme frostbite while trying to cross the Belarus border, leading to the amputation of both his legs.

• Egala Foundation (Bialystok): $8250 funded eight months’ salary for two caseworkers supporting migrants and refugees, plus the grant covered rental and maintenance costs for an apartment providing short-term housing.

• Foundation for Freedom (Warsaw): $5025 provided 5.5 months of supplies for children’s activities at the Lenin Open Reception Center for asylum seekers and refugees; the grant also included support for a one-day family trip for program participants and four months’ stipend for the program’s part-time coordinator.

• Foundation Towards Dialogue (Warsaw): $5028 paid various costs associated with the organization’s support for Ukrainian refugees from the Roma minority community, including support for staff salaries, transportation, rent, and utilities.

• Jednosc Foundation (Krakow): $2525 supported a technology upgrade for a school for Ukrainian refugee youth.

• Pol Foundation (Krakow): $4020 paid for four months of Polish language classes for refugees and migrants from particularly vulnerable communities, plus costs for the organization’s bookkeeping.

• We Are Monitoring (Warsaw): $5025 funded three months of office rental and two months of psychological support for staff and volunteers working in highly stressful and traumatic situations.

Here’s What You Funded in Ukraine:

•Dobra Fabryka Ukraina (Kyiv): $6335 provided support for staff members working on Ukraine’s front lines. The grant includes funding for a four-day psychological recovery retreat for five employees and accident insurance for 13.

Here’s What You Funded in the United States:

•Bay Area Resource for Newcomers (Oakland, CA): $4650 supported health education and gender-based violence prevention workshops for immigrants and refugees from the Afghan, Eritrean, and Ethiopian communities, benefitting approximately 148 individual participants.

• New Neighbors Partnership (New York, NY): $3000 served as a matching grant for the organization’s World Refugee Day Campaign, allowing the total of $6000 raised to support income-producing opportunities (as chefs, photographers, etc) for high-need families.

•In Her Vision (Durham, NC): $4919 brought a mobile clinic to a rural area, providing free eye exams and glasses to 30 to 40 recipients, most of whom are immigrants and farmworkers who lack health insurance.