Dr. Alison Thompson Biography

Dr Alison Thompson - is a full time global humanitarian volunteer. Her work started on the Sept 11th 2001 attacks in New York where she volunteered as a first responder for nine months. Alison has run internally displaced persons camps in Sri Lanka Haiti and around the world and was appointed as the first official Ambassador to the Haitian Ministry of Environment in 2012 where she works in reforestation and cholera initiatives. Alison is fondly known as the “Angel of Galle” in Sri Lanka and the Angel of Light in Nepal and in 2015 was honored at Loyola Chicago University with an Honorary ‘Doctorate of Letters’ in the ‘Humanities’ where she also gave the commencement speech. For the past 7 months Alison has worked tirelessly on the island of Lesvos Greece in the epicenter of the Syrian Iraqi and Afghani refugee European migration where over 800000 refugees have fled war zones by the sea in Turkey. In Greece Alison is working as a volunteer paramedic resuscitating hundreds of drowning victims and caring for refugees with hypothermia and war wounds . Alison has developed a network of over 10000 volunteers in which hundreds have deployed to Lesvos where she supports and coordinates aid groups and direct aid in her ongoing work for the refugees. Her mission is to bring Love and Light to Lesvos and to be a VOICE for HUMANITY for the suffering of the refugees she witnesses daily. She describes those first moments with the refugees as the most purest form of love where two humans meet eye to eye and hug without borders politics or religion.

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