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  • Evening Friday 11th of September 2015 at PIKPA camp, Lesbos, Greece. After registering with the Greek Police Aysha was free to move out of Kara Tepe camp. Since she was pregnant and with two kids she was admitted to PIKPA camp, outside Mytilini town, run by volunteers for women, families and refugees who want to apply for asylum in Greece. They gave her clean clothes, shoes and a little hut with beds to spend the night.
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  • The remains of the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital, in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre) has been built. <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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  • A barbed wired gate that separates the different communities of migrants and refugees into sections at the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
<br />
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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  • A typical prefabricated house in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece.<br />
<br />
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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  • A barbed wired gate that separates the different communities of migrants and refugees into sections at the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
<br />
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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  • General view of the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. Since there are no trees or other natural cover, the refugees and migrants use olive harvest nets create shade.<br />
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<br />
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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  • The remains of the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital, in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre) has been built. <br />
<br />
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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  • The noticeboard in the  First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece, advertising, in Arabic and English, the distribution of hygiene kits. <br />
<br />
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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  • Pre-fab housing in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece.<br />
<br />
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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  • A typical prefabricated house in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece.<br />
<br />
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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  • Shirin, Levent, Jamila, Wafa, Aya, Rania (L-R) refugees from Aleppo and Al Hasakah outside their hut in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
<br />
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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  • The double barbed wire fence surrounding the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece.<br />
<br />
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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  • Shirin, Levent, Jamila, Wafa, Aya, Rania (L-R) refugees from Aleppo and Al Hasakah outside their hut in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
<br />
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.
    19_160826_016.jpg
  • General view of the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. Since there are no trees or other natural cover, the refugees and migrants use olive harvest nets create shade.<br />
<br />
<br />
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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  • Three refugee children, Youssef, 14, Rebas, 9, and Diar, 13, looking over the Leros 'Hotspot', an EU-run migrant's reception centre opened in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital. <br />
<br />
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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  • Three refugee children, Youssef, 14, Rebas, 9, and Diar, 13, looking over the Leros 'Hotspot', an EU-run migrant's reception centre opened in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital. <br />
<br />
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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  • 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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  • Noon, Friday 11th of September 2015. Aysha who is 5 months pregnant is being examined by MSF nurse Vaso Avagianou at the medical centre in Kara Tepe camp. She spend the previous night in a tent using  flattened-out cardboard boxes as a bed. Her clothes were still wet from the sea but she had nothing to change into.
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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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  • 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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  • February 2016, Asylcenter Dianalund, Denmark. <br />
Aysha and her daughters in front of the main building of Dianalund Asylum Centre.
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  • February 2016, Asylcenter Dianalund, Denmark. <br />
 Julie who was born two weeks ago in Denmark, sleeps.  Aysha was pregnant at her when she did the big journey from Lesbos to Germany last September.
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  • Eco youth camp / St. Athanasius  church
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  • A makeshift camp in an abandoned warehouse outside Kara Tepe camp. Since the official camp is overcrowded with appalling conditions many refugees choose to camp outside of it.
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  • A UNHCR shelter in the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. 

The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • Discarded UNHCR prayer mats in an abandoned building at a now-closed refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • A boarded up door and graffiti at the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. <br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • A rain coat and copies of the Quran in a building in the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. <br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • A UNHCR shelter in the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. 

The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    13_160601_097.jpg
  • A painting on a wall in the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. <br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016
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  • Discarded UNHCR prayer mats in an abandoned building at a now-closed refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    11_160828_635.jpg
  • A rain coat and copies of the Quran in a building in the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. <br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016
    08_160601_063.jpg
  • A boarded up door and graffiti at the closed down refugee camp at the Port of Lakki. <br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    09_160601_071.jpg
  • Abandoned plastic pre-fab huts in the former refugee camp in the port of Lakki.  In the background the old Italian navy barracks.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    05_160603_213.jpg
  • Strings of colourful pendants in one of the UNHCR temporary buildings that was used as a nursery at the abandoned refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    07_160601_109.jpg
  • A towel, left forgotten, on a clothes line at the former refugee camp in the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    06_160603_189.jpg
  • Children's handprints decorate a wall in the former refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    03_160828_639.jpg
  • Children's handprints decorate a wall in the former refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    07_160828_639.jpg
  • Abandoned plastic pre-fab huts in the former refugee camp in the port of Lakki.  In the background the old Italian navy barracks.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    03_160603_213.jpg
  • An old sink inside an abandoned building at a refugee camp at the port of Lakki.

The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
    12_160601_023.jpg
  • A diamond shaped painting on the wall, from the time when the building was used as a psychiatric clinic, at a now-closed refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • A sign reads 'children' in English and Arabic at the former refugee camp in the port of Lakki. <br />
<br />
The camp was opened by volunteers in the summer of 2015 and later that year UNHCR and MSF expanded it and provided additional tents, toilets and other facilities. The camp was closed soon after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • The First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, seen through a window the former Psychiatric Hospital. There are around 600 people living there. Since the July riots the camp has been split into different zones for the different ethnicities.  <br />
<br />
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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  • 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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  • Yazidi Hazim Elias Khadeda, 22, looking at the Leros 'Hotspot', an EU-run migrant's reception centre opened in the grounds of the former Lepida psychiatric hospital (from which the view is taken).<br />
<br />
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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  • Abdulbaki Yunis, a Syrian Kurd refugee from Damascus in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
<br />
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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  • Laminated A4 notices in the  First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece.<br />
<br />
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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  • Abdulbaki Yunis, a Syrian Kurd refugee from Damascus in the First Reception Centre (Hot-Spot) of Leros, Greece. <br />
<br />
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.
    36_160826_044.jpg
  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
    150718_090.jpg
  • Yazidi refugees Hazim Elias Khadeda 22  and his sister Leena Elias Khadeda  16 photographed in front of the abandoned building of the Royal Technical School of Leros.<br />
<br />
This building was built in the 1930 by Fascist Italy as barack for the submarine crews stationed in the island. After WWII it  was turned into a a reeducation camp for the children of Greek Communists and into a technical school. From the mid 1950’s until 1967 it was a technical school with boarding facilities. During the Colonel’s Junta in Greece it was turned into a camp for members of the communist party. After the Junta it was abandoned and now it’s about to collapse.
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  • Samir, 48 yo, from Arfin, Aleppo county. He has been travelling for 25 days and he has been stuck at Idomeni camp for the past 12 days. Transit camp of Idomeni, Greece. <br />
<br />
Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • View of the Idomeni camp where it has been raining non stop for the last few days. The fence build by the FYR Macedonian Police is visible at the back. Transit camp of Idomeni, Greece. <br />
<br />
Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
    160310_217.jpg
  • A group of young men in their 20’s from Syria and Iraq are making morning tea and boiled eggs at a  disused railway line near the transit camp of Idomeni. Many people decided to live away from the transit camp where the conditions are appalling. <br />
<br />
Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities here are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling. It's raining, it's cold there is mud everywhere and there is no hope that the border will open anytime soon.
    160312_061.jpg
  • A group of young men in their 20’s from Syria and Iraq are making morning tea and boiled eggs at a  disused railway line near the transit camp of Idomeni. Many people decided to live away from the transit camp where the conditions are appalling. <br />
<br />
Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities here are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling. It's raining, it's cold there is mud everywhere and there is no hope that the border will open anytime soon.
    160312_051.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
    150718_084.jpg
  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
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  • Moshed from Afghanistan having a shower in Kara Tepe camp. He has been in the camp 3 days.
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  • 50 year old Mamum from Damascus, Syria  sitting in the back of  truck in an abandoned logistics company near Kara Tepe camp. Since the camp is overcrowded with appalling conditions many refugees decide to stay outside of it.
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  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
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  • A group of people walking in Moria camp through the window of the abandoned camp refectory.
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  • Refugees' tents and cloth lines in 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 refugee family washes by the main road outside the Kara Tepe camp. There are few water taps  in the camp
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  • Yazidi refugees Hazim Elias Khadeda 22  and his sister Leena Elias Khadeda  16 photographed in front of the abandoned building of the Royal Technical School of Leros.<br />
<br />
This building was built in the 1930 by Fascist Italy as barack for the submarine crews stationed in the island. After WWII it  was turned into a a reeducation camp for the children of Greek Communists and into a technical school. From the mid 1950’s until 1967 it was a technical school with boarding facilities. During the Colonel’s Junta in Greece it was turned into a camp for members of the communist party. After the Junta it was abandoned and now it’s about to collapse.
    45_160603_298.jpg
  • View of the Idomeni camp where it has been raining non stop for the last few days. Transit camp of Idomeni, Greece. <br />
<br />
Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
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  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
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  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
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  • Jeilan, 28 years old, from Aleppo, Syria, with her 4 years old daughter, stays in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. She has already spent 5 days in the camp waiting for her papers to be issued by the police. “I cannot believe that I am living in such conditions with my family,” she says. “I used to be a teacher back in my country. My husband was an accountant. Look at us now! This is inhumane.”
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  • Moshed from Afghanistan having a shower in Kara Tepe camp. He has been in the camp 3 days.
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  • 18 year old Adnan from Syria inside the office of an abandoned logistics company near Kara Tepe camp. Since the camp is overcrowded with appalling conditions many refugees decide to stay outside of it.
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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 refugee washes by the main road outside the Kara Tepe camp. There are few water taps  in the camp.
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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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  • Refugees Diar, 13, Rebas, 9, Youssef, 14, Naswan, 5, and Kosh, 48, sitting in a room in the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre)  has been built. <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 />
<br />
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.
    43_160601_330.jpg
  • Kurdish refugee children, Youssef, 14, and Diar, 13, standing in a window at the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital, in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre) has been built. <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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  • Kurdish refugee children, Youssef, 14, and Diar, 13, standing in a window at the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital, in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre) has been built. <br />
<br />
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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  • 14 month old Yazidi girl Asma Aisam Ismail outside the abandoned Lepida psychiatric hospital in whose grounds the Leros ‘Hot spot’ (an EU-run migrant’s reception centre) has been built. Her mother, Torko Haji Khalaf, 21, picks figs in the background. <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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  • When we arrived in Lesbos in Greece we thought that we will be safe, but they put us in a camp together with many Muslim man. Some of them looked like ISIS with long beards, some were Afghan, some Pakistani and there were some Arabs too. We were scared and we said to the police that they should put us in a separate place. <br />
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In Leros the Afghans and Pakistanis attacked us few times, and sometimes after their Friday prayers they were making gestures like they wanted to behead us.
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  • A child's bathrobe hanging on a wall at Villa Artemis, a shelter for 30 refugee women and their children in the grounds of Leros Hospital. <br />
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Opened in September 2015, the shelter was run by the Leros Solidarity Network. However, Villa Artemis was closed down shortly after the opening of a 'Hotspot' (EU-run migrant's reception centres) camp in Lepida in February 2016.
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  • Clothes hanging between the flag masts of Idomeni railway station. Many families have moved in the old train station since the main transit camp is overcrowded. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • A family of refugees trying to cross the muddy field at the transit camp of Idomeni, Greece. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • A man walks under the rain in a flooded muddy field near the transit camp of Idomeni, Greece. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling.
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  • A refugee boy carrying rain coats walks on the rail line in the refugee transit camp of Idomeni, Greece. <br />
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Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities here are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling. It's raining, it's cold there is mud everywhere and there is no hope that the border will open anytime soon.
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  • A refugee from Aleppo, Syria is cooking for first time in his life in an open fire at the railway station of Idomeni near the refugee transit camp. <br />
<br />
Thousands of refugees are stranded in Idomeni unable to cross the border. The facilities here are stretched to the limit and the conditions are appalling. It's raining, it's cold there is mud everywhere and there is no hope that the border will open anytime soon.
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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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  • The portable toilets at the petrol station near Idomeni. In the last few months the fields near this petrol station have become a transit camp for thousands of refugees and migrants waiting to cross to Greek Macedonian border.
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  • Rayyan 7 years old from Iraq with her luggage in Kara Tepe camp in Lesvos, Greece
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  • Maha’s father showing me what is inside his daughters’ bag in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Kids from Iraq outside their tent in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Children’s drawings outside the ActionAid’s office container in Kara Tepe camp, Lesvos, Greece
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  • Firaydun 8 months old year old from Bamyan Afghanistan  at Moria camp, Lesvos, Greece.
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  • An Afghan family at the olive grove next to Moria camp , Lesvos, Greece.
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  • Afghan men queuing to be registered and receive a temporary document that allows them to travel to mainland Greece at Moria camp, Lesvos, Greece. Usually women and children wait at the tents while men are waiting under the sun to receive their documents.
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  • Refugees and migrants  waiting in a muddy field to get registered by the Greek authorities in in Moria camp, Lesvos, Greece.
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