Newton Resident Helps Refugees in Greece

NEWTON, MA – A Newton Centre woman traveled to Greece last month to aid more than 60,000 refugees stranded – many of them from countries President Trump has banned from entering the United States in the near future.

According to Leslie Schick's GoFundMe page, more than 60,000 people in Greece that have been displaced by war, and many of them come from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Schick makes regular trips to Greece, where she aids refugees who are stranded.

On her latest trip, Schick will also travel to Italy, where she says there are 200,000 refugees who have fled conflicts in Africa. Schick finances the trips herself, and provides aid through what she raises on her GoFundMe.

>>>Click here to contribute to Schick's GoFundMe campaign.

Schick helps out because she could just as easily see herself in the refugees' position.

"I have no trouble imagining myself and my children -- or yours -- among them," Schick wrote on her GoFundMe page. "As the child of a Holocaust survivor who ended up a refugee in Turkey, and as an immigrant to the US myself, I know that we owe our comfort and safety only to accidents of history or geography."

>>>Read the Newton TAB's feature on Leslie Schick.

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