I started working with Latra when I arrived on Lesvos. My first week was spent primarily putting up shading on the units with two other organizations at Kara Tepe, Movement on the Ground and Because We Carry. They were very prepared and had clearly worked together before, none of them even knew Latra did anything but paint houses. After the Latra team got to know the other organizations, the three became a team and worked well together to put shade up as efficiently as possible. Several times, we had to take down shade that Latra had already put up because of miscommunication. After my first week, I found out another organization, ERCI, took the children at the camp swimming so I started to get involved with them. Meanwhile, 10 more volunteers arrived to work with LAtra the same week as me so I felt I was more valuable in another organization that needed people. Yet during that first week I spoke to other volunteers and we found out that Aris, the director, had been charging us all different fees to work with Latra. In addition, there were almost 20 volunteers with no real direction. One volunteer stepped up to organize where Aris wasn't and he would undermine the work she did and completely change the schedule she was told to make. It was ridiculous for me to be on the outside, working with an organized NGO, and seeing how much time and energy was being wasted with Latra. Overall, Latra did good work like add people to put up shade, paint a playground, paint the boxes, and host some workshops but there was never really follow through or direction. The directors treatment of volunteers was also incredibly problematic.