Is funding one of the NGO's biggest problems?
On the contrary, it's really easy. In our first week in Lesbos we were interviewed by the BBC. One man recommended setting up an NGO, as that way they could not throw us out. We set up a website, crowdfunding... A friend set up a website for us with PayPal and in 24 hours money had come in from all over Silicon Valley. In next to no time we had 50,000 euros. We received support from the businesswoman Amy Rao, who is a close friend of Hillary Clinton and the widow of actor Robin Williams. I sent a video to Toms Molina, who is from Badalona, and it was shown on the TN Migdia news bulletin, I made some statements to the New York Times criticising Frontex and the EU after a boat sank, and we ended up on El Intermedio, which made us known in Spain. We got some 130,000 euros in donations.