Virginia Woman Builds Community-Centered Refugee Camp in Greece

Guest: Lisa Campbell, Co-founder of the nonprofit “Do Your Part” More than 1,700 refugees have died so far this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy on boats that are overcrowded and barely seaworthy.  The span between Libya and Italy is now the deadliest sea passage in the world and attempts to cross it have increased since the EU and Turkey made a deal to shut down the shorter crossing option between Turkey and Greece. Meanwhile 62,000 refugees, more than half of which are women and children, remain stranded in Greece waiting for their asylum applications to be processed so they find a permanent place to resettle.  Out of this crisis of temporary shelter and great humanitarian need came Lisa Campbell from Virginia. She’s the co-founder of a disaster-relief nonprofit called “Do Your Part” and she’s more than doing hers. She opened a camp for refugees in Greece and has been there managing it for about a year. doyourpart.org