# €1 million donation from IKEA Foundation to The HOME Project

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/10/03/e1m-donation-from-ikea-foundation-to-the-home-project/
- Published: 2017-10-03T12:24:15+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**IKEA Foundation has made a €1 million grant to The HOME Project to support its
work in housing and employing refugees stranded in Greece through the ongoing crisis.**

The HOME Project focuses in particularly on helping lone refugee children and has
already opened five dedicated shelters, with a structure of care and support.

[The IKEA Foundation](https://www.ikeafoundation.org/) donation will enable The 
HOME Project to double the scope of its work. It will fund the opening of five more
shelters, increasing its provision to care for more than 200 children in secure 
environments that give support, protection, education and social integration services
to dozens of displaced children.

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This latest commitment will bring the total jobs created by The HOME Project to
over 120, including employment for many of the refugees.

The HOME Project states that more than 8,419 of the refugees in Greece are unaccompanied
minors. Having been separated from their parents they are at risk of violence, sexual
abuse, exploitation and organ trafficking.

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**Per Heggenes**, CEO of the IKEA Foundation, said: “All children have the right
to a safe place to call home. The IKEA Foundation is supporting the HOME Project
because we believe the private sector should work alongside governments and the 
UN to secure this right for vulnerable migrant children, helping them survive, recover
and build a future for themselves.”

Sofia Kouvelaki, Director of the [HOME Project](http://www.homeproject.org/), thanked
the foundation for its support, saying: “The scale of this disaster is epic and 
children are the true victims of it. We are immensely grateful to the IKEA Foundation
for recognising the HOME Project’s mission which is critical, and for this generous
donation which will make a deep and lasting impact on so many lives. This vital 
work saves lives and needs support – we hope it will serve as an inspiration to 
the international community.”
 

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