Mary Ballard: Ocean Mary

mary ballard: They recently spent 10 days on the Greek island of Chios to help at the Souda camp with a Norwegian NGO called A Drop in the Ocean, according to The Chronicle Herald. Mary and I had always talked about volunteering when we were retired or semi-retired, and we thought maybe we d take some of our lifeskills and help out somewhere, he said. Mark and Mary Ballard are part of SAFE Syrian Antigonish Families Embrace one of two networks welcoming Syrian refugee families to the community. In Canada, Mary is a nurse and Mark is semi-retired from the field of air craft maintenance administration and training. After breakfast, they helped with children activities. At Souda, the Ballards handled food distribution for lunch and dinner, helping a group of Basque volunteers with meal preparation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.