![Toys and clothes collection for refugees - Namur - Belgium © François Struzik - simply human 2015](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=950x10000:format=jpg/path/s3f674350fbc15da9/image/i1594e67fd8f7234e/version/1447059943/toys-and-clothes-collection-for-refugees-namur-belgium-fran%C3%A7ois-struzik-simply-human-2015.jpg)
Europe has to face a massive arrival of refugees coming mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Reluctant to migrants, some part of the european people and politics has shown a deep
animosity, including inhuman laws and treatment.
Nevertheless and somehow unpredictably, a solidarity movement has grown in many of the communities, organizing the welcome and sometimes even providing primary needs like food, blankets,
...
In the small city of Namur, a center for refugees has open in a old military base, run bu the Red-Cross. In cooperation with the Red-Cross a collective of citizen has organized activities,
clothes and toys collection, breakfast, … for and with the refugees. Their aim is to make them feel welcome in Belgium and break the prejudices amongst the local population.