The pain is acute and lasts. The lungs appear unable to fill with enough air. You are drowning and you think that you will die. The sounds and images around you seems to be moving slowly. You are wondering what are you doing there. Why are you in this situation? The Turkish military guards, with […]

Rashid is sitting with his friends at the edge of the slope, on some pallets and wood. He is over 60 years old and as he says, that he was an officer in the Afghan army. He has lost his left eye in one of the battles against Taliban.  He was already one week in […]

In the neighborhoods of Moria, on the side between the mud and the garbage’s, children play casually, running among the narrow alleys created by tents and makeshift accommodations. Perhaps this is a mechanism that they develop, in order to influence as little as possible from what is happening around them. Like all children all over […]

When the light is withdrawn from the refugee camps around Thessaloniki, withdrawn the NGO members too. The only non-refugees remaining, is two three policemen at the post of entry, bored and reluctant to participate-even the role that imposes the suit them- in foursomes. When light and NGO members are withdrawn from the refugee camps, the […]

He was the littlest fellow, with the biggest clothes. Big boots, Big pair of pants and a fleece. However, there was a sparkle in his eyes which showed his desire to play football. There have been two football fields set up on the grassfield of the EKO gas station, 20kms before Eidomeni… Refugees’ Maracana. That […]

  Elen Zahos, a nurse from Queensland, came to Greece last fall as a volunteer with Doctors of the World in order to help with the refugee crisis. She returned to Australia in January. Although she had returned, her mind was still on Greece, SkalaSikamias, on Molivo on Mytilene and on Eidomeni. She was born […]