The financial crisis has brought hardship to people across Greece but on the Greek islands, known mainly as a holiday paradise, refugees from Africa, the poorest parts of Europe and the Middle East are suffering too. Here a Franciscan friar describes how his parish’s food bank helps the neediest It used to be mainly Romanians and Albanians who came to our food bank. Then, a few years ago, African refugees started arriving and now we have Greeks too, who are finding it a struggle to feed their families.I collect dry and tinned food which goes into bags we give out each week. The idea is to provide enough to make two or three meals. When we first started, we asked parishioners to donate food only during Lent and Advent. The monastery would buy food for the other weeks of the year. As