Sending food, and sometimes providing funds for food, and, in the winter, providing funds for heating are an on-going endeavor. Two out of every 11 people in Greece are refugees. We could expend our entire resources there without fulfilling all the needs in Greece. For example, Greece is inundated with Albanians, Kurds, Serbs, Romanians, Armenians, and Russians. Thousands of Armenians have immigrated into Bulgaria and are being assisted to becoming productive of their new homeland.
Assistance is also prevalent in the other Balkan nations.
Each has refugees and orphans as well as their own people in dire need. For example, Romania is a nation populated with as many people as Yugoslavia and Greece and seems to have the poorest economy of any Balkan country. Nearly half of the shipments of clothing are sent to Romania. Locally, several church bodies and other organizations work with The Outreach with the purpose of meeting the everyday needs of the Balkan people for their survival and opportunity to move on in life. For example, besides helping the Balkan people, per se, thousands of refugees from the Bosnian and Kosovo wars and the fall of the Soviet Union have immigrated into these lands whom we also try assist.