I am heading homewards soon. So, I’d like to thank you all and share some final thoughts with you. I must say, it was a cold cold winter. I saw lots of desperate people and listened to many sad stories. There were days I felt lonely and desperate myself, asking myself: ‘Do I make a […]

I met Aida, her mother, sister and little brother while they were hitchhiking along the road. I picked them up and drove them ‘home’ – to Lavriou refugee camp. Aida, 12, is a girl with twinkles in her eyes. She spontaneously tells me her story. We fled from our city Hama in Syria 9 months […]

Allulah, 34, lives along the railway in Athens. He fled Ethiopia many years ago. It is almost ten years now that I try to get a better life. In the beginning it was okay: I could earn some money now and then, I lived in a proper house, I had friends. But things got bad. […]

What if we would really meet? What if we would really welcome and embrace each other? Would we not say then You are being seen Love is here Stay And wouldn’t the world be brighter then, And wouldn’t love be here to stay then too? — Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy […]

Vasilika, refugee camp – 9 dec 2016 I have an appointment with Angelikka, coordinator of MSF (Medecins sans Frontières) to run a Trauma Workshop. Police officer at the gate: Stop – papers, please… You are not allowed to come in. You need a paper of the ministry in Athens. I saw you taking pictures – […]

Elena, 33, started helping the refugees after a visit to the Idomeni border camp last year. She says: ‘I could not not return there. The conditions the refugees were living in, were so miserable, I felt an instant urge to help. So I volunteered. I worked in  Idomeni for 5 months. I used to get […]

I met a hero today. His name is Pixie. Pixie is the head chef of the soul food kitchen in Thessaloniki. He and his team deliver food to the refugees living in the streets. Pixie has done that before: he has been cooking for traveling refugees since the first outbreak of the refugee crisis, back […]

Visiting the Tabanovtsé refugee camp at the Macedonian – Serbian Border. Listen to this testimony of a Macedonian colleague of mine: It is heartbreaking, the lives of the refugees here are frozen for months, for years. They are numbers, live in containers, separated from the rest of us, moving freely is illegal for them. Closed […]