

#VolunteerDiaries: Alexia
This article was published in the National Herald on 02/02/20. https://www.thenationalherald.com/283138/life-in-the-moria-refugee-camp-a-story-written-by-a-volunteer/ Photo by Hanna Johre In the winter of 2019-2020, I spent 3 weeks in Lesbos where I volunteered in the Moria camp for an NGO called Kitrinos Health Care. It was a rather spontaneous decision made at a time when the streets of my hometown, Thessaloniki, had overflooded with numerous refugees seeking shelter in eve


Human beings seeking refuge do not deserve this hell
This article was published in The Telegraph, UK on 24/12/19 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/24/human-beings-seeking-refuge-do-not-deserve-says-british-doctor/ Jessica Hanlon is a British doctor who is working over Christmas in the notorious, overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, off the coast of Turkey. Dr Hanlon, 30, from Saffron Walden in Essex, says that healthcare professionals who have worked in refugee camps around the world tell her the situati