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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 />
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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 />
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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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  • Syrian-Kurdish children, Ronash and Telnas, in a playroom at PIKPA, a refuge opened in January 2016 by the Leros Solidarity Network as a shelter for families and unaccompanied minors.
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  • Syrian-Kurdish children, Ronash and Telnas, in a playroom at PIKPA, a refuge opened in January 2016 by the Leros Solidarity Network as a shelter for families and unaccompanied minors.
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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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  • Children's handprints decorate a wall in the former refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
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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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  • Aziza, two, and her sister Madjida, one, sit on their bunkbed at PIKPA, a refuge opened in January 2016 by the Leros Solidarity Network as a shelter for refugee families and unaccompanied minors. The sisters have different mothers but their father Hasan and Madjida's mother Mariam take care of them both as Aziza's mother is still in Syria with another one of her children.
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  • Children's handprints decorate a wall in the former refugee camp at the port of Lakki.<br />
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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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  • 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, 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, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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. 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. 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. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Afternoon, Saturday, 12 September 2015. Aysha with her two daughters Bisan 2 ½ (L) and Sham 3 ½ (R) on the deck of F/B Nissos Rodos that took them from Lesbos island to mainland 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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  • 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 />
Sham 4 years old. Statue of Liberty.
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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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  • 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. Aysha makes coffee that she brought from Syria before leaving for the train station to catch the train to Munich.
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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. 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. 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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  • 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. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 />
Aysha next to her 2 week old baby Julie in their room.
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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 />
 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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  • Greek experimental musician  Tasos Stamou  for  Epsilon magazine - Greece
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  • Two Afghan boys wearing Real Madrid t-shirts proud that made the journey to Greece posing minutes after their boat landed on the beach of Skala Sykaminias, Lesbos island, Greece.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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  • Pupil in the elementary school of Kalivia. There are 11 abandoned classrooms in the school, the twelfth serves the school.
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  • Some of the girls had hidden their phones and they text us that they were taken to Mosul. <br />
Then ISIS took the women and the children to the high school of Kogo. They took some women who weren’t that beautiful, 40 -50 year old behind the school and we heard gunshots again. They killed the ugly women and the older women. The beautiful girls were kidnapped.<br />
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Pregnant women and women with kids were upstairs. Women over 40 who didn’t have children were executed. Beautiful and young women were taken by bus to Mosul. After they finished their first sorting  downstairs they went upstairs and took women with children and pregnant women to other muslim towns.
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  • A paper chain drawn by children, hangs in a corridor in 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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  • Children's drawings on a wall in the kitchen of 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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  • Mekdad Mehamad, 44 years old from Aleppo, Syria, is staying with his wife and 3 children in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos for 5 days. Every morning, authorities distribute one piece of bread for each family. Merkad has to share this bread with his 3 children and his wife.
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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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  • 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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  • A child's cot and toys in 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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  • Koulouritsa. Almost everyone told me that the worst thing during communism wasn’t poverty, lack of infrastructure or the isolation from the rest of the world, it was the fear of speaking freely even to your own children
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  • My sister and her children was captured by ISIS and taken by one of them to a Syrian town. She was abused for weeks but one day she managed to escaped from the back window of the house. She was lucky, because she found some Muslim clothes in the house and nobody could recognise her or her daughters.<br />
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She was going around the village and asking people for help but nobody took her in their house. Everyone in the village was Muslim but not everyone was with ISIS. They were good people also. It was winter and raining. She knocked on many people’s doors but no one opened her and nobody helped her, nobody accept her.
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  • A couple of days later my sister called me and said that ISIS gathered all the Yazidis, around 1700 people and took all their valuables. Then they separated men from women and children. Then they brought trucks and start taking away the men, group by group, 20 - 25 men at the time. <br />
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After a while they start hearing gunshots from outside the village. ISIS took some boys too, but they didn’t kill the ones who didn’t have hair on their legs, and they brought them back to their mothers. Those kids witness the execution of the men and told the women what happened.  <br />
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The women asked ISIS if that’s true, ISIS said no, we didn’t kill anyone we just took the men to another place. When they asked what were those gunshots they heard  ISIS said that was nothing, there were some bad dogs outside the village and we shot at the air to scare them.
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  • Dalal Ali Mesho a 21 year old from Siba Sheikh Khidir, northern Iraq.<br />
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She is in Greece with her husband and her two children. From Her village 150 people are missing.<br />
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This is a series of portraits of Yazidi refugees who were stranded since April 2016 in Greece.  All of them survived the Yazidi Genocide by ISIS in August 2014 and most of them have lost family members.
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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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  • Syrian refugee women and children looking out to sea at Gourna Beach. It is the first time they have been back to the sea since they were rescued by the coast guard after crossing from Turkey.
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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 />
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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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  • Bed frames in the medical tent 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. The medical tent was opened just three days before the villa was abandoned.
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  • An abandoned child's doll on a bunkbed in 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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  • A toddlers play mat on the floor 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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  • 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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  • Refugee children who received a cup of tea from a group of volunteers, balancing on old railway sleepers in order to cross a muddy field in 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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  • Children queuing in a muddy field for a cup of tea.  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 group of refugee children plain football in the platform of Idomeni Railway Station, 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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  • Discarded children’s clothes near Skala Sykamias, 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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  • Children’s clothes hanging to dry on a chain-link fence  in 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The MSF Arabic translator Ihnab Abassi plays with Aghan children at the port of Mytiline.
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  • A closed down children's clothes shop in  Filippou Str, Thessaloniki.
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  • A group of around 50 Afghans, men, women and children are walking the 9 hour distance from Skala Sykaminias to the village of Moria where the First Reception Centre is located. 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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  • I saw many people, old people, grandparents, children all dead on the road. Their relatives left the bodies behind because they had to run, they had to escape. <br />
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You can only help the ones who are alive, you cannot do anything about the dead. <br />
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I saw kids, newborn babies, one month, two month old dead on the mountains and on the side of the road to Syria. More than 300 kids died on the way.<br />
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We didn’t have anything with us, we were walking for 36 hours and we were very very tired.
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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 />
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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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  • An abandoned deer soft toy lying on top of a stack of mattresses in 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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