Refugee Biriyani & Bananas

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Refugee Biriyani & Bananas RBB raises awareness, advocates and provides emergency humanitarian aid and basic necessities

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Refugee Biryani & Bananas (RBB) is group of friends and individuals, who are committed to volunteering and supporting those in crisis and suffering. We provide urgent aid and basic necessities to the people we are supporting in terms of food, water, shelter, season specific aid i.e. firewood in the winter and mosquito repellent in the summer, hygiene kits, medical aid and baby products as well as morale boosting activities. We are currently supporting refugees and asylum seekers on the Greek Island of Chios where there is over 4500 people, majority of whom live in tents and make shift shelters in Vial Refugee Camp. If you would like to make a financial contribution towards our work please visit our page to find the most up to date donation link which will be pinned to the top. If you would like to volunteer with us, provide us with aid or partner with us in any way then please send us a private message. We look forward to hearing from you. The RBB Team

  | ‼️A group of 37 people from       have arrived on   island and are in urgent need of help. THEY WOUKD LIKE TO SEEK A...
15/10/2026

| ‼️A group of 37 people from have arrived on island and are in urgent need of help.

THEY WOUKD LIKE TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE. WE CALL ON THEIR IMMEDIATE RESCUE AND SAFE TRANSFER TO A CAMP (CCAC), OR HOSPITAL

We’ve been asked to post on socials by these people. Our posts tag relevant, concerned agencies to raise awareness of their arrival in Europe. This, in turn, increases the people’s chances of survival, remaining in Greece, registered onto the asylum seeking system; and not being unlawfully, and potentially pushed back or other face other unlawful or violent actions.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
UNHCR GREECE
Open Assembly Against Pushbacks and Border Violence
forRefugees
The Guardian
The New York Times
Sky News
Amnesty International

09/10/2026

🍛🍌 Why Biriyani & Bananas?

Ever wondered how we got our rather unusual name?

Watch our Founder, Ruhi (), share the story behind Refugee Biriyani & Bananas — how our name came about and the spirit behind the work we do today. ❤️

What started with a simple desire to help has grown into a community-led humanitarian organisation supporting people affected by displacement, conflict and crisis.

Our message remains the same:

✊🏾 Whatever it takes.
❤️ Don’t wait for permission to help.

Because making a difference doesn’t always require permission, resources or a perfect plan. Sometimes, it simply starts with showing up and doing what you can.

đź’› Support our work today. Every donation helps us continue standing alongside communities who need support.

đź”— https://donorbox.org/rbb-website-donations

  | ‼️ URGENT — NEWLY ARRIVING PEOPLE ON   A group of four people from  , including a two-year-old child, have arrived o...
14/09/2026

| ‼️ URGENT — NEWLY ARRIVING PEOPLE ON

A group of four people from , including a two-year-old child, have arrived on Chios island and are requesting protection.

THEY HAVE STATED THAT THEY WISH TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE.

We call on the relevant Greek authorities and protection agencies to ensure their immediate safety, access to medical care where required, registration, and safe transfer to appropriate reception facilities.

We have been asked by the group to share their arrival publicly.

Posting and alerting relevant organisations can help ensure that people arriving at Europe’s borders are visible, accounted for and able to access their right to seek asylum, while helping reduce the risk of disappearance or unlawful pushback.

They have also been advised to contact the relevant authorities directly.

We are calling the attention of:

UNHCR Greece
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Amnesty International 🌎
Human Rights Watch
Al Jazeera English
The Guardian
Middle East Eye

📸 20 photos | 310 families | One distribution that almost didn’t happen. 🇵🇸Earlier this week, our Palestinian team in Ga...
04/09/2026

📸 20 photos | 310 families | One distribution that almost didn’t happen. 🇵🇸

Earlier this week, our Palestinian team in Gaza distributed fresh vegetables, fruit and chicken to displaced families in Arafat Camp, North Gaza.

As the bombardment, siege and atrocities against the people of Gaza continue, families are still being forced to fight for the most basic necessities — including food.

That morning, airstrikes and a security alert meant our Field Coordinator Omneya and the team had to stop, assess the risk and wait. As soon as it was possible to continue, they did.

Because families were waiting.

Arafat Camp is home to 310 families — 1,547 people — many displaced multiple times. Families told our team they are surviving on just one or two meals a day, with portions cut by 60–70%, and fresh food and protein increasingly out of reach.

Among those living there are pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, older people, people with injuries and people with disabilities — many of whom are also the least able to reach larger food distributions safely.

That is why fresh food matters.

Around ÂŁ35 can help put one fresh food pack into the hands of a family in North Gaza, while contributing towards the local and core costs that make this work possible.

The price of one takeaway in the UK or a pair of cinema tickets and snacks could help provide a family in North Gaza with fresh vegetables, fruit and chicken.

Please donate and help us reach the next family.

🇵🇸 We will keep showing up. Please stand with us.

➡️ FOLLOW and be apart of our transnational, community-led and female-led team working alongside affected communities.

➡️ Donation Link: https://donorbox.org/emergencygaza-is-under-attack

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03/09/2026

11 years later, we are still saying their names.
Still witnessing people forced from their homes.
Still watching families make impossible journeys in search of safety.

Alan Kurdi was just three years old.

His image shook the world in September 2015 — but the conditions that force children and families onto dangerous journeys have not disappeared.

Today, from Chios Island, we remember Alan and every person who has lost their life seeking safety.

And we continue to stand with those who made it.

At Refugee Biriyani & Bananas, solidarity means more than words. Today our team is preparing food packs because people seeking safety here are still going without some of their most basic needs.

We will keep showing up.
We will keep listening.
We will keep serving.
We will keep advocating.

From Palestine to Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Somalia, Myanmar and beyond: people do not choose war, persecution, hunger or displacement.

Seeking safety is not a crime.

Please stand with displaced communities and support our work.

Because no one should be left behind. 🤍

DONATE ➡️ https://donorbox.org/rbb-website-donations

  and   must be rescued and bought to safety. If any one or any organisation can help us advocate for them please do. Pl...
30/08/2026

and must be rescued and bought to safety. If any one or any organisation can help us advocate for them please do. Please share

  | ‼️A group of 40 people from     and   have arrived on   island and are in urgent need of help. They informed us they...
29/08/2026

| ‼️A group of 40 people from and have arrived on island and are in urgent need of help. They informed us they have pregnant women and those who are disabled with them.

THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEEK ASYLUM IN GREECE. WE CALL ON THEIR IMMEDIATE RESCUE AND SAFE TRANSFER TO A CAMP (CCAC), OR HOSPITAL

We’ve been asked to post on socials by these people. Our posts tag relevant, concerned agencies to raise awareness of their arrival in Europe. This, in turn, increases the people’s chances of survival, remaining in Greece and not being unlawfully, and potentially violently, pushed back across the border to Turkey.

They have been advised to contact the relevant authorities

UNHCR GREECE
Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
The New York Times
The Guardian
forRefugees
Al Jazeera English
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch

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