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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha took a taxi to Vienna, together with the three Syrian teenagers who were helping her carry her kids from Serbia to Hungary. As soon as the taxi drove off everyone fell asleep.
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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha just crossed into Hungary and she has a little rest under the trees before going to a field where buses are waiting to take the refugees to the Austrian border. A Syrian teenager who was carrying Sham during the long march on the rail line, is giving her 2 cans of condensed milk that was given to him in Greece by volunteers.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. After an hour waiting in the queue with the girls Aysha came back from the hospital. Because of her condition she got the registration papers without waiting. The doctors told her that there is nothing to worry about but she needed rest. She is worried that the Hungarian border will close tomorrow so she decided to carry on. While we were waiting outside the camp entrance locals were asking us if we need a lift to Belgrade, they looked dodgy and we refused. Later on the trip we met a Syrian who went with one of those “taxis” and he got robbed.
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  • Afternoon, Sunday 13 September 2015. Aysha walks on the railway line towards the Greek - Macedonian border. An unknown to her Syrian man helps her by carrying Bisan in his arms.
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  • An 18 year old Syrian refugee showing me his unstamped passport in the port of Molyvos, Lesbos island, hours after his boat has been rescued by the Greek Coast Guard.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees on a small inflatable boat minutes before their landing on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. In the horizon the Greek Coast Guard vessel could be seen. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees on a small inflatable boat minutes before their landing on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. In the horizon the Greek Coast Guard vessel could be seen. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • Abdulbaki Yunis, a Syrian Kurd refugee from Damascus in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
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The Hot Spot in Lepida opened on the 26th of February 2016 in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital.  At the beginning it served as a registration camp for refugees and migrants who were travelling to Europe through Greece but since the closure of the borders in March 2016 it serves as a permanent camp. People are allowed to go out, they have three meals a day, the prefabricated huts have a bathroom and are air-conditioned and compering to other refugee camps in Greece the conditions are bearable.
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  • Constantina Strikou, programme coordinator of ActionAid Hellas, helps Syrian girls to change their wet clothes at  the fishing harbour of Skala Sykamias, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • Constantina Strikou, programme coordinator of ActionAid Hellas, helps Syrian girls to change their wet clothes at  the fishing harbour of Skala Sykamias, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • Constantina Strikou, programme coordinator of ActionAid Hellas, helps Syrian girls to change their wet clothes at  the fishing harbour of Skala Sykamias, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • Syrian refugees queuing to be registered and receive a temporary document that allows them to travel to mainland Greece at Kara Tepe camp in Lesvos, Greece
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  • Syrian refugees queuing to be registered and receive a temporary document that allows them to travel to mainland Greece at Kara Tepe camp in Lesvos, Greece
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  • A Syrian mother and her daughter are hanging clothes at the port railings of Mytiline. Very often the overcrowded dinghies that carry them from Turkey fill with water and all their belongings becoming wet.
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  • Syrian refugees boarding the Coast Guard's bus that will transport them from Molyvos to one of the camps in Mytiline.
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  • Syrian refugees boarding the MSF bus that will transport them from Molyvos to one of the camps in Mytiline.
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  • A Syrian refugee inside the MSF bus waiting to be transported from Molyvos to one of the camps in Mytiline.
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  • MSF translators Bashir and Rashid try to wake up a  Syrian refugee who was sleeping by the road. The man later told us that he was so tired from walking that he couldn't look for a better shelter. Refugees land at the northern shores of the island of Lesbos and then they have to walk the 9 hour distance to one of the camps.
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  • MSF translators Bashir and Rashid warn a Syrian refugee not to sleep on the roads verge but to go further down where there is a chapel with shadow and running water outside the village of Mantamados.
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  • Syrian refugees rest at the village of Mantamado, on their way from the northern shores to one of the  first welcome camps in Mytiline
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  • A Syrian refugee showing me the box of heart medicine he takes. Unfortunately on the boat trip from Turkey to Greece their boat was capsized and he lost his medicine .
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  • A Syrian refugee taking a mid day nap amidst drying clothes in Moria camp.
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  • A Syrian refugee is carrying two empty bottles of water to be filled in the hose by the main road outside Kara Tepe camp.
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  • Syrian refugees using empty cans of coke to boil water for their tea in Kara Tepe camp
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  • A disabled Syrian in his 70's resting in his walking stick after he disembark from a boat that brought him to Europe. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees, among them a disabled man carried by his compatriots and locals,  the moment they disembark from their small inflatable boat and land to Europe, on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees, the moment they disembark from their small inflatable boat and land to Europe, on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. <br />
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Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees, the moment they disembark from their small inflatable boat and land to Europe, on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. <br />
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Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees, the moment they disembark from their small inflatable boat and land to Europe, on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. <br />
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Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees on a small inflatable boat minutes before their landing on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. In the horizon the Greek Coast Guard vessel could be seen. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees on a small inflatable boat minutes before their landing on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. In the horizon the Greek Coast Guard vessel could be seen. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees on a small inflatable boat minutes before their landing on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. In the horizon the Greek Coast Guard vessel could be seen. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • Abdulbaki Yunis, a Syrian Kurd refugee from Damascus in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
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The Hot Spot in Lepida opened on the 26th of February 2016 in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital.  At the beginning it served as a registration camp for refugees and migrants who were travelling to Europe through Greece but since the closure of the borders in March 2016 it serves as a permanent camp. People are allowed to go out, they have three meals a day, the prefabricated huts have a bathroom and are air-conditioned and compering to other refugee camps in Greece the conditions are bearable.
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  • How far is to walk to Sweden ? <br />
A Syrian family that just landed in the Greek island of Lesvos walks towards the nearest police station to report their arrival and get registered. Near Skala Sikamineas, Lesvos , Greece
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  • A Syrian father carrying his son, that just landed in the Greek island of Lesvos walks towards the nearest police station to report their arrival and get registered. Near Skala Sikamineas, Lesvos , Greece
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  • Syrian Refugees at the port of Mytiline boarding the F/B Rodos that will take them to Athens.
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  • Syrian refugees walk from the port of Molyvos to a car park that a Coast Guard's bus waits to take them to one of the camps in Mytiline
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  • A Syrian refugee shows me a dead dove. He told me that this dead dove represents the people of Syria
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  • Syrian refugees staying n an abandoned warehouse outside the official Kara Tepe camp. Since the camp is overcrowded with appalling conditions many refugees decide to stay outside of it.
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  • A Syrian refugee waging his clothes in two cut water containers outside Kara Tepe camp.
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  • A Syrian newborn lies in the floor of Kara Tepe camp. The family has no milk for the baby and no money to buy.
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  • A group of Syrian refugees near a camp fire in Kara Tepe camp. Since there is no electricity in the camp and the food is scarce people light fires to boil water for tea or to cook something.
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  • A Syrian refugee sleeps under an olive tree in Kara Tepe camp
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  • 15 year old Sharaf from Damascus standing by parked cars in Skala Sykaminias after his arrival in Lesbos island. He has been traveling on his own since his family has been killed in the Syrian civil war. <br />
Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece.
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  • Diar, a 13 year old Syrian Kurd, stands in the ruins of the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital. <br />
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Originally constructed, in 1930 by fascist Italy, as barracks for Italian soldiers serving in the aeronautical base of Portolago, it was then, for a short period after WWII, a re-education camp for the children of Greek Communists. In 1958, it was converted into the biggest psychiatric hospital in the country. The conditions for the patients were horrific and it was shut down in the late 1980s and the patients moved into smaller buildings in the grounds and elsewhere on the island.
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  • Diar, a 13 year old Syrian Kurd, stands in the ruins of the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital. <br />
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Originally constructed, in 1930 by fascist Italy, as barracks for Italian soldiers serving in the aeronautical base of Portolago, it was then, for a short period after WWII, a re-education camp for the children of Greek Communists. In 1958, it was converted into the biggest psychiatric hospital in the country. The conditions for the patients were horrific and it was shut down in the late 1980s and the patients moved into smaller buildings in the grounds and elsewhere on the island.
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  • Thursday 10 September 2015 at 18:52 Aysha arrives to Europe. The boat that brought her was carrying around 50 Syrians, men women and children and arrived at the beach of Kagia, near Skala Sikaminias at the northern shores of Lesbos island.
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  • Thursday 10 September 2015 at 18:51 a boat carrying around 50 Syrians, men, women and children is approaching the beach of Kagia near Skala Sikaminias at the northern shores of Lesbos island.  <br />
Aysha is at the rear of the dinghy sobbing. She left 5 days ago Aleppo.
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  • Syrians jumping off the dinghy that brought them to Greece and celebrate their safe arrival at a beach near Skala Sikamineas, Lesvos , Greece
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  • Early morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. We arrived at Belgrade and hit the rush hour traffic. Bisan woke up and start crying.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha made it to Germany, her final destination. I thought they would be happy to take a picture under the sign, but both her and the kids were exhausted from the long uphill walk.
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  • Afternoon, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. After waiting in the Vienna central station for hours to buy a next day train ticket to Munich, Aysha finally rents an apartment for the night. They didn’t have a shower or sleep in a bed since they left Thessaloniki 3 days ago.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha and her kids arrive at the back of Vienna central station were a temporary welcome centre has been set up. There are volunteers who give information, food and psychological support.  There are hundreds of people there, reuniting, reorganising and using the free wifi to contact their families and friends.
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  • Early morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. The Hungarian train stopped at the station of Hegyeshalom  at 3:25 in the morning. A policeman wake up Aysha and told her to move out of the train. There was police everywhere in the station. It was foggy and the lights were dim. The refugees start waking silently through the streets of the small village. At every crossroad there was a policeman to show them the way and make sure that none will stay in Hungary. At the end of the village a policeman showed them a dark bicycle route to Austria. Aysha was walking for more that an hour in the darkness until she saw the lights in the Austrian border.
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  • Afternoon, Friday 11th of September 2015. Aysha is holding a document from the Greek Police that allows her and her daughters to stay temporarily in Greece and travel from Lesbos island to mainland Greece. The registration process took her a couple of hours, there was priority for women with children.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Zinkenwirt Gmerk, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Aysha and her daughters are now in Germany. The landscape remind me of the movie “The Sound of Music”  They walked few meters to a bus station where they were planning to take the bus to the nearest train station and fro there to continue to Munich. Few minutes after this picture was taken a van of the Bavarian State Police came and pic them up. They were taken to a refugee first welcome centre where I would meet them few hours later. Then we took the train to Munich where the were taken to the refugee centre. I wouldn’t meet them for 5 months.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha is few meters away from the Austrian - German border. Sham starts to run to Germany.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha and her girls walk up the steep hill about a kilometre away from the German border.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha and her girls walk up the steep hill about a kilometre away from the German border.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Since the border near Salzburg is closed, Aysha decides to go to a small Austrian town and try to cross from there. So they took a train to Hallein and from there a bus to ski resort. When they got off the bus they were really impressed by the green countryside so sake asked me to take a picture of her as a souvenir.
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  • Night, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. After having a shower and a cooked supper, 3 1/2 year old Sham fells asleep in the bed in the rented apartment in Vienna.
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  • Morning, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Aysha makes coffee that she brought from Syria before leaving for the train station to catch the train to Munich.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. The train stops at Salzburg and the conductor tells everyone to alight. The German border is temporarily closed but Aysha doesn’t know that yet.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Vienna central station. Hundreds of refugees and migrants are waiting at the central hall of the station. This woman in her nineties traveled all the way from Afghanistan with her family.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Vienna central station. After days of travelling without access to electricity or internet the refugees and migrants who arrive at the station charge their phones so they can contact their relatives and friends and tell them that they are safe and get information about the rest of the journey.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. At the central station of Vienna there is a huge queue of refugees and migrants waiting to buy a ticket to Germany. Their families and friends are sleeping everywhere at the station. Hundreds of exhausted people.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha negotiates with a Turkish Taxi driver the price to Vienna. Finally they settle at € 150. Later in the day another Taxi driver told me that the ride should’t cost more that €50.
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  • Night, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha plays with her daughters in the train compartment. This particular car is full of Afghan teenagers, some of there are loud and fights between them start. Aysha is scared.
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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha and her daughters are on a train in the small station of Röszke. After they crossed the Hungarian border, the police boarded them on old Ikarus buses that took them to the train station. They waited on the bus for 2 hours until a policeman escort them to the train compartments. * iPhone photo *
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  • Noon, Monday 14th of September 2015. The bus from Beograd to Kanjiža stopped at the village of Bečej near the Serbian - Hungarian border. Aysha is washing the girls in the sink of the public toilet. There is a big queue as everyone wants to use the toilets after the long journey.
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  • Noon, Monday 14th of September 2015. The bus from Belgrade to Kanjiža is full of refugees and migrants heading to border. One of them is a man from Daraa with a broken leg. Few hours later I see him walking with crutches on the disused rail line, it must have taken him few hours.
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  • Morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. On the bus to Kanisha. Aysha looks at the pretty villages of Vojvodina. The bus is a local one and stops in many villages on the way, so it takes double the time to go to the border. After 3 hours Aysha is start getting very worried.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. We waited for 1 ½ hour and the finally the bus left, but few hundred meters down the road it was stopped by a plain cloth policeman and made us return. The excuse was that some people onboard didn’t have the registration papers. We waited for one more hour while every 10 minutes the driver was saying that we are living now. People got upset and finally the driver said he is not leaving and forced us to alight. We went to the next bus where the some thing happened. Finally at a third bus and 5 hours later we left.
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  • Ten o’clock at night,  Sunday 13th of September 2015. Aysha boarded one of the busses that were waiting outside the camp. The ticket was 25 euros for us 22 for others. Nobody gave any receipt. There where about 8 buses with the engines running, they looked full but none was leaving. The driver said that he is waiting for 2 more people to fill up and then we will go. There were many refugees coming out of the camp but nobody come to our bus. We waited for 1 ½ hour.
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  • Night, Sunday 13th of September 2015. I met Aysha outside the entrance of the registration camp in Preshevo, about two hours after we parted in the Macedonian-Serbian border. Her belly was swollen and she was bleeding. A Serbian officer took her to the hospital, she asked me to go and find the girls at the queue and look after them. The girls were happy to see me.
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  • Afternoon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Aysha is looking at me after she crossed into Serbian territory. We said goodbye to each other since we don’t know if we will meet on the other side of the border. The sun is getting down and it’s getting cold.
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  • Noon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Sham and Bisan sleep on Aysha’s lap. They are on a special train just for refugees and immigrants from Gevgelija to Slanishte , across the Republic of North Macedonia. The train was packed,when Aysha got in. All the seats of the car were taken by young men from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aysha was displeased but she didn’t protest. Somebody from the train said to a man to give his seat for Aysha, he did so reluctantly. There was no toilet on the train and no one had any idea were it goes or how long the journey will be.
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  • Noon, Sunday 13th of September 2015. Sham looks at me, few minutes ago she was crying.  They are on a special train just for refugees and immigrants from Gevgelija to Slanishte , across the Republic of Macedonia. It’s overcrowded, hot and there are no lights, so everytime we pass through a tunnel is pitch black and the girls are scared.
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  • Afternoon of Sunday 13 September 2015. Aysha and her two daughters Sham (L) and Bisan (R) waiting at the regional bus station of Polykastro in Kilkis to board a bus that will take them to their final destination in Greece, the village of Idomeni by the border. The station master told me that since the refugees and migrants started using the Balkan route their bus company which was at the brink of bankruptcy became profitable again.
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  • Morning of Sunday 13 September 2015. Aysha and her two daughters Sham (L) and Bisan (R) waiting in Egnantia street in Thessaloniki for the city bus to take them to the central bus station in order to take another bus to Idomeni on the Greek - Macedonian border. They arrived to the port of Kavala in mainland Greece last night, where they took a bus to Thessaloniki. All of the other refugees and immigrants continued their journey last night to the border, but Aysha was tired and with a swollen ankle she preferred to spend a night in a hotel.
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  • Morning, Saturday 11th of September 2015. On the back seat of a taxi on the way to the Port of Mytilini where they will take the boat to Kavala, a town in Northern Greece.
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  • Noon, Friday 11th of September 2015. Aysha holding Sham (3½) and Bisan (2½) outside the tent where they spend the previous night in Kara Tepe camp in Lesbos island.
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  • Thursday 10 September 2015 at 20:09 in the village of Mantamados, Lesbos island.  Aysha at the back of my car with her daughter Bisan sleeping in her arms. Aysha was the most vulnerable person of her group so I offered her a lift from the landing spot to the registration camp of Kara Tepe in Mytilini. The rest of her group had to walk to the village of Sikaminia and then either walk the 43 Kilometres to the camp or wait for hours for one of the buses run by MSF, and IRC to take them there.
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  • February 2016, Asylcenter Dianalund, Denmark. <br />
Aysha next to her 2 week old baby Julie in their room.
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  • February 2016, Dianalund, Denmark. <br />
Aysha walks her two daughters Sham and Bisan, while carrying a pram with her newborn baby, Julie . It’s the first time she goes out of the Asylum Centre since she gave birth to her daughter.
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  • February 2016, Asylcenter Dianalund, Denmark <br />
4 year old Sham looks at her sister Bisan 3yo descending from the top bunkbed in their room
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  • February 2016, Asylcenter Dianalund, Denmark. <br />
Sham 4 years old. Statue of Liberty.
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  • Afternoon, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. Salzburg train station. Aysha finds out from other refugees that the border of Germany is closed. She is worried again.
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  • Morning, Wednesday 16th of September 2015. On the train from Vienna to Munich. Sham sleeps on her mother, while Aysha is relaxed since the most difficult part of her journey is over. She looks at the Austrian landscape and smiles.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha meets a woman who was in the same boat with her from Turkey to Greece and haven’t seen her since. They share their traveling experience and they are worried about the future. Where to go and how.
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  • Noon, Tuesday 15th of September 2015.  Aysha hugs her two daughters outside the main entrance of Vienna central station. She was waiting at the queue for hours while I was taking care of the girls. After 2 hours they became nervous and wanted to see their mother, so Aysha found someone to wait for her in the queue and she came out to see the girls.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. After 3 days without internet finally Aysha connects with her husband in Syria and tells him the news, that they arrived safely in Austria.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. On the motorway to Vienna we see a group of Afghan teenagers who could’t afford a Taxi ride to Vienna. They walk on the hard shoulder.
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  • Morning, Tuesday, 15 September 2015. Aysha walks at dawn with her two daughters from Nickelsdorf refugee temporary shelter to a petrol station where they could take a taxi to Vienna.
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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha looks from the window of the train that is waiting at the station of Röszke. This is the last train to leave Röszke since Hugary will close it’s borders few hours later.  * iPhone photo *
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  • Noon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha buys crisps for the girls at the Bečej bus station. The bus stopped for half an hour and everyone is buying sandwiches and drinks. Before the refugee influx this provincial bus station was very quiet.
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  • Monday, 14 September 2015. Aysha carries Bisan on the long march from Horgos in Serbia to the Hungarian border. There is a constant flow of people walking on the abandoned railway tracks, rushing to get into Hungary before the border closes to undocumented migrants and refugees.
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  • Morning, Monday 14th of September 2015. Belgrade central train station. The bus from Preshevo left us outside the central bus station of Belgrade next to the train station. Aysha bought a ticket to the bus to Kanisha and the went to exchange her dollars to Euros. She was stressed that we won’t make it in time to Hungarian border. There where rumours that the border will close at noon and rumours that it will close at midnight.
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  • Sunday 13th of September 2015, afternoon. Aysha is carrying Bisan through a field meters away from the Macedonian - Serbian border. About an hour ago a train full of immigrants and refugees arrived at the border village of Slanishte after 4 hrs of travelling across the Republic of Macedonia. A group of Danish volunteers gave Aysha a pram to carry her daughters. The path is uneven and it will take her more than an hour to walk to the Serbian town of Preshevo.
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  • Afternoon, Sunday 13 September 2015. Aysha walks on the Idomeni train station towards the border. A UNHCR officer approach hers and tells her that what she is about to do (cross the border) is illegal. Aysha is confused.
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