Authorities in Lesbos, Greece, were rushing to trying thousands of asylum seekers after a fire burned down much of the housing at the island’s main refugee camp.
Farah Elnaqa shares the reality of providing dental care treatment in a refugee camp, including the difficult decisions she had to make.
Global Mail takes us to the Greek island of Lesbos, where 8,000 people live in a refugee camp built to host only 3,000. A situation bordering on chaos for the continuous arrival of migrants and ...
Alkhuder arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos in October 2015, and eventually made it to Germany. "Once I arrived, I turned myself in to a refugee reception camp," he recalled. "I started to ...
UNHCR High Profile Supporter Douglas Booth travelled to Greece in May 2015 to learn more about the experiences of refugees and their journeys fleeing from conflict and persecution. Reflecting on his ...
I needed a translator. So I called a friend, Dr Nasir, an Afghan refugee who I had worked with when he and his family were living in the prison-like camps of Lesvos. He translated Muhammad’s ...
Since Moria was destroyed, migrants and refugees have been protesting against plans to build another camp. Locals on Lesbos are also opposed to a permanent centre, saying that another camp would ...
Read about the trip, and David's reflections. David has also visited Syrian families in Zaatari refugee camp and Amman in Jordan, and in 2015 travelled to the Greek island of Lesvos to meet refugees ...
Based on his schedule, he was to meet 250 refugees and ... a disused army camp, as appalling. Journalists have no access to the facility on a hillside just outside Lesbos's main town of Mytiline ...
The huge fire ripped through the camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday night, turning everything to ash. The BBC's Jean Mackenzie spoke to people at the Moria camp months before it was ...
He established a football team in the Moria refugee camp, which later became the Kosmos Lesbos Football Club, with a squad made entirely of international refugees and asylum seekers. The newest ...