Cafe Rits

Cafe Rits The aim is to provide nutritious supplemental food to the 2,800+ refugee residents of Ritsona Refugee Camp in Chalkida, Greece.

Café Rits seeks to:
(1) Provide healthy and nutritious supplemental food and drink to the residents of Ritsona to bring nutrition closer to Sphere Standard
(2) Use food to invigorate a sense of community and caring among a diverse population under very challenging conditions
(3) Provide residents with tools to share their cuisines and hospitality with family, friends and visitors
(4) Train residen

ts, volunteers and children in food hygiene, meal preparation and professional cooking skills
(5) Maintain a high ratio of resident to volunteer Café Rits team members
(6) Adapt Café Rits programs to assist the vulnerable population to the best extent possible, with accountability and strict budgeting for donors. We do this by distributing fresh food supplies, providing meals prepared by residents, and engaging residents in projects ranging from accessory making to music concerts for children, special events, holidays, etc. Essentially, we want to improve the quality of life of the residents of Ritsona while preparing them for the next stage of their journey. Feel free to contact us with any questions. Donations and volunteers are welcome anytime!!!

Happy Nowroz☀️
21/03/2026

Happy Nowroz☀️

21/03/2026

Eid Mubarak🌙

Eid Mubarak 🌙
21/03/2026

Eid Mubarak 🌙

For our third year, the Café Rits team was pleased to collaborate with the Chalkida Teachers’ Association to distribute ...
18/04/2025

For our third year, the Café Rits team was pleased to collaborate with the Chalkida Teachers’ Association to distribute Easter food baskets to the 55 most needy families in the Chalkida public school system. In addition to being a worthy project on its own, the presence of refugee volunteers helping Greeks serves as a good reminder of the ongoing presence of refugees in Ritsona and in the public schools.

A Café Rits mini reunion in Southampton New York with Café Rits RITSONA volunteers Lulie, Maddy and Paige joining Caroly...
12/04/2025

A Café Rits mini reunion in Southampton New York with Café Rits RITSONA volunteers Lulie, Maddy and Paige joining Carolynn and our friend Laverne and Maddy’s daughter Hazel to put together Ramadan Gift Baskets ( in coordination with JFS of Greenwich) for 16 resettled Afghan and Syrian refugee families in Fairfield County Connecticut. Having fun doing good!!!!

Café Rits was pleased to host a holiday pizza party for the final day of the bi weekly after school football program run...
19/12/2024

Café Rits was pleased to host a holiday pizza party for the final day of the bi weekly after school football program run by our friends at Lighthouse, with whom we collaborated last summer on the five week summer camp for Ritsona children. The Avlona Football Municipal football field's locker room rapidly converted to party central and we enjoyed seeing some of our summer campers as well as new children. Bittersweet reunion because it was Lighthouse's last day of sponsoring this program due to lack of funding. We have enjoyed working with Jellina, Federico and the Lighthouse team and I know they will be greatly missed.

Cafe Rits ( in partnership with Lighthouse Relief and Ermilios Soccer Club) hosted our Ritsona Summer Camp “closing ce...
11/08/2024

Cafe Rits ( in partnership with Lighthouse Relief and Ermilios Soccer Club) hosted our Ritsona Summer Camp “closing ceremonies” with a carnival, live music provided by our football coach Costas and his band, singing and dancing and, of course, lots of food. We closed out the camp with over 70 Ritsona children aged 6 to 17 enrolled and watched the amazing transformation in all of the kids to generally happy, more disciplined and excited, looking forward to what each day was going to bring. Children deserve this and we only wish we could have a world where hands could be held without looking at the owner of the hand and all children could live in a moment without fear or hunger. And with hope. We lived magical moments and we thank all of the coaches and participants for their support.

We are still here! Café Rits is very pleased to be hosting a children’s football and activity summer camp for five week...
07/07/2024

We are still here! Café Rits is very pleased to be hosting a children’s football and activity summer camp for five weeks of weekdays for the children of Ritsona Camp at Ermilios Football Club in partnership with Lighthouse Relief Organization and Ermilios.

With almost 60 children aged 5 to 17 ( and growing), Greek, Iraqi, Dutch, Italian, Swedish and Spanish coaches and counselors, American, Greek and German chefs, several junior counselors from the Ritsona community, 10 camper nationalities - we are a coordinated Babel!!!

In addition to football and other sports and art activities, all campers receive daily a snack and a meal equal to Sphere Standard nutritional requirement for a day.

Thank you to all of the participants and those who help to make this possible!

Clean Monday- the beginning of Lent in the Orthodox calendar- and the Cafe Rits team honors this by flying kites and cle...
27/02/2023

Clean Monday- the beginning of Lent in the Orthodox calendar- and the Cafe Rits team honors this by flying kites and cleaning beaches in Chalkida! Bravo team!

Café Rits says farewell and all the best to Cafe Rits Sajad and his mom as they continue on their journey. One of our be...
14/01/2023

Café Rits says farewell and all the best to Cafe Rits Sajad and his mom as they continue on their journey. One of our best football players and more importantly great guy. Good luck Sajad from all of your teams!

Congratulations to Ali Haj Habo who this week became a citizen of The Republic of Ireland. Forever Syrian, now Irish too...
07/12/2022

Congratulations to Ali Haj Habo who this week became a citizen of The Republic of Ireland. Forever Syrian, now Irish too, always Café Rits!

04/12/2022

In this we are happy to introduce to you our Kitchen Assistant Mohamed ✨

Unlike this photo, Mohamed is usually the smiliest of the SKP team 😄💚

Having a history working as a tailor, Mohamed is now trying out a new career, and we’re so thankful he is! He’s a fantastic team player and absolutely lovely to work with 👨‍🍳🪡🧡💪

His favourite meal is , a traditional Middle Eastern dish consisting of stuffed vegetables 🍆🍅🥔🫑😋

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KM 16 Natl. Road Chalkida/Thiva
Ritsóna
34100

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