Our mission is simple: no more deaths. Thousands of displaced people arrive at borders every year and it is unacceptable that an increasing number are not surviving their journey.
Thanks to the unwavering dedication of thousands of supporters, volunteers and professionals from around the world, we are operating in key areas in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Greece to deliver vital material assistance, investigate under-reported harms and build a civil society ecosystem that stands in solidarity with displaced people.
Activities: The Three Pillars of Collective Aid Action
The current crisis demands precise action and collective strength, which is why we are seeking not just to respond but to connect, coordinate, and build capacity across multiple areas of action. These three pillars of action work together and support each other: services stabilise, research dismantles barriers, collective capacity ensures long-term change.
Material Assistance
We provide vital material support including clothes and WASH services where we identify serious gaps in services, material needs and risk of exposure related harm.
People are fighting to survive across Europe’s borders. Direct aid stabilises lives long enough for systems-level action to take root.
Research and Investigations
We collect evidence, monitor human rights violations, and publish reports: ensuring that our findings and data reach relevant stakeholders locally, regionally and internationally.
What is invisible will not be held accountable. Evidence needs to be brought to public attention for the public to take action.
Civil Society Capacity Building
We partner with and resource civil society organisations and leaders across a wide range of borders, co-developing systems to strengthen local responses and solidarity action.
Truly sustainable action is local. When civil society stands together with displaced people, borders can become less deadly.
Strategy: Building Collective Capacity to End Border Deaths
Every year, people die on borders not because help is impossible, but because systems fail.
Our strategy is to close as many failure points as we can through collective capacity: aligning good aid, effective reporting, and vital civic power into one coordinated ecosystem response. With strong strategy, commitment to mutual collaboration and attention to standards, we will build more capable civil solidarity that moves from fragmented efforts to collective action.
The theory of change underlying this strategy is built on a systemic view of the problem we are facing, not charity logic. The crisis is sufficient that we must be pushing every action possible to enable system change. The role of strategy is therefore to ensure that the combination of our activities cumulatively reduce more harms than any of them would individually.
When those with immediate needs receive material aid, organisations generate truth through research and documentation and civil society organisations strengthening support for displaced people, then collective action to address deaths on borders will grow and appetite for accountability will increase.
Your Role: Will You Join?
When you become a regular giver, you are not just donating: you are joining our network of solidarity, standing in solidarity at Europe’s borders.
We are a relatively small team and therefore need the steady support of our regular giving community to continue all the work we do.
Check out our community page to see what else is involved!
Ethos: Method, Excellence, and Solidarity
Our ethos defines how we operate, and it is how we have ensured continued action that is rigorous, multidisciplinary, and uncompromising in standards. Because when stakes are as serious as ours are, “good enough” does not cut it.
Every aspect of our work is grounded in evidence, protocol, and outcome, enshrined in our guiding principles. It is time consuming and difficult to do the necessary planning, testing, and iteration to gather data on what works and then build effective systems of action, but it is vital in every instance. Doing so means we see best practice as the starting point, drawing upon feedback, active research, and needs assessment to develop practice.
As a result, we are equipped to hold ourselves to the same scrutiny we demand from others, ensuring regular and transparent audit and adjustment of our practices. That is how we can begin to do the work we want to do and stand in solidarity with those denied safety who are fighting for a world where protection is guaranteed, not begged for.
We exist because European borders remain sites of systemic violence. People fleeing war, persecution, and climate disaster deserve more than charity: they deserve justice. Until the policies that force people into suffering are dismantled, humanitarian aid alone is not enough. We are not here to exist indefinitely, our ultimate mission is to make our own work obsolete, to build a future where displaced people no longer die on borders.
Until then, we will continue standing in solidarity with those forced to move.
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