30 g of milk powder for a baby in a refugee camp in Greece

79.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2020 (UNHCR, 2020). About 50 percent of them are women and girls (UN Refugee Aid, 2021). They flee for a variety of reasons, often because they have experienced violence or are threatened with forced marriage or genital mutilation. It is not uncommon for them to become victims of attacks while fleeing. Most women arrive in the refugee camps traumatized (Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2018). There is great hardship in the Greek refugee camps. The refugees live in tents or under wooden shacks, the hygienic conditions are catastrophic and people are not provided with enough food. There are virtually no psychologists to deal with the mental suffering. Births take place in makeshift rooms, and the women receive little care before and after delivery. Under these circumstances, not all women are able to breastfeed their babies and thus provide them with sufficient nutrition (Simkin & Klaus, 2015). The babies are malnourished and urgently need milk powder as a substitute. But milk powder is expensive and is not included in the daily food package that the refugees receive. Greece is still weakened by the financial crisis in 2008, and the economy is recovering only slowly (Der Standard, 2019). Solidarity with the refugees certainly exists, but many Greeks continue to live on subsistence levels and can give little.