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Manxman offers succour to refugees

Ramsey man runs charity in Greece

A Ramsey man who runs a hotel in Greece has been describing  how he was moved to help refugee families arriving on his local beach daily.

Andrew Davies who was brought up in the Isle of Man, runs a boutique hotel on the Dodecanese island of Symi. 

He's helped set up Solidarity Symi, a grass-roots charity to provide basics - such as food, clothes and toiletries - to exhausted men, women and children who have risked treacherous boat journeys to reach Europe. 

Andrew's determination to help the refugees in the midst of the holiday season was featured in the Mail on Sunday last weekend.

He told us despite the massive scale of the problem, he could not just watch and do nothing: 

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