My Refugee Journey – 12th March 2016

My Refugee Journey – 12th March 2016 The day starts with finishing the following of the Camp Fire volunteers who each day and night look out to sea and help bring refugee boats safely to the shores of Lesvos.  Its 8am and I at this moment don’t feel tiered, I’ve gone past that phase, soContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 12th March 2016”

Pakistani Protest Against Deportation – 17th March 2016

Anyone that isn’t Syrian, Iraqi or Afghan, have their Refugee Journey terminated once they get to Lesvos… The unofficial Camp once known as Afghan Hill and now called Better Days For Moria is full of over 500 Pakistani refugee/migrants looking to flee persecution from Taliban and for some their religious beliefs that are not acceptedContinue reading “Pakistani Protest Against Deportation – 17th March 2016”

A Snapshot Of Life In The Refugee Camp At Idomeni

This gallery has photos showing life in the Refugee Camp in Idomeni, an unofficial camp in the North of Greece on the border with Macedonia.  I covered the story of the refugees in this camp in the last six weeks up to the eviction by the Greek Police & Army. The day before the evictionContinue reading “A Snapshot Of Life In The Refugee Camp At Idomeni”

My Refugee Journey – 11th March 2016

My Refugee Journey – Friday 11th March 2016 My first real day off since I got to Lesvos on 6thApril…  I’ve hurt my back enough for the Doc to give me two days off.  Day was spent doing admin so I guess not totally a day off but sat down doing admin on the laptopContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 11th March 2016”

My Refugee Journey – 10th March 2016

My Refugee Journey – 10th March 2016 A day that left me by the end of it being stabbed in the arse!!!  The day started off normally, off to camp for 2pm start at Kara Tepe Camp where I got to work on making more tea for the refugees and handing out lunch…  The dayContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 10th March 2016”

My Refugee Journey – 9th March 2016

My Refugee Journey – 9th March 2016 Today the morning shift have still not been able to make tea for the refugees in camp, so when our shift get to camp at 2pm, we are hoping to get the tea on as soon as we can during our shift.  But we have problems still, weContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 9th March 2016”

My Refugee Journey – 8th March 2016

My Refugee Journey – 8th March 2016 Today at camp there’s a lot of moving around in the community square we call Kara Tepe Square…  The area where the refugees gather and where we serve the tea, and food.  A number of new large containers have arrived and we’ve been told we need to moveContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 8th March 2016”

My Refugee Journey – 6th March 2016

My Refugee Journey – 6th March 2016 OK, hoping this is as detailed as I just wrote, as the crappy laptop I’m using that really needs replacing decided to shut down and reboot and didn’t auto save my work that I was just working on, my whole blog for today lost! OK, I so don’tContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 6th March 2016”

My Refugee Journey – 3rd March 2016

My Refugee Journey – 3rd March 2016 Today Ive sort of got a day off to help my back recover, but I’ve already arranged to be with Nicolle Hodges from CTV (A Canadian TV Channel) who was going to volunteer from 4pm-midnight at Kara Tepe, helping with the tea, so we meet up before and weContinue reading “My Refugee Journey – 3rd March 2016”