Humanity: Tourists on vacation helping refugees

Not all holidaymakers look away… There are those that rush to help!

Dutch tourists decided to donate 100 euros that they would have spent on a boat excursion to volunteers helping refugees at Molyvos on Lesvos, Greece.

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On his part, a Dutch tourist decided to go to Kos – not for tourism but for voluntourism. Reading Daily Mail reports of British tourists disturbed by the refugees, Niels Verheij and his wife took two extra suitcases full of shoes for the refugees stranded there. “With a little taping, 20 pairs will fit in a suitcase,” he told Dutch news website AD.nl.

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