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"It's like a football match. The two teams will be

"It's like a football match. The two teams will be Europe and Turkey and we are the ball. Europe tries to score in the Turkish goal by pushing us back on the sea or at the borders, whereas Turkey is always in defense and trying to score in the European goal by asking more money. We are kicked at from one player to the other."
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I’ve been a bit quiet lately. Not because of a l

I’ve been a bit quiet lately. Not because of a lack of words, nor actions.

I managed to help get three families from Mytilini to Athens (also thanks to your donations 😘😘) I’m taking care of them, this means; sending money so they can rent a home and pay for groceries and hospital visits. It also means talking to them on an almost daily basis.

Three families of thousands. It’s nothing right? No it’s not. And I wished I could help many more families. But, I’m just a simple person.

With every message that I share online I receive at least 50 back. Half of those are from people asking my help. They are desperate and tell me their stories. Send me photos of where they are, of their physical problems, of their traumas.

Totally understandable of course. But, I’m just a simple person.

It’s hard to see the hardship of people, it’s painful to listen to their suffering, it’s impossible to not care.

And yeah, what am I talking about right? I didn’t have to go through all that suffering, I didn’t have to flee and I don’t have to deal with European politics everyday. True! But, receiving shouts of help every day, reading horrible stories every day, seeing photos of torture, if it didn’t bother me I wouldn’t be human.

That’s why I’ve been a bit quiet lately. It’s been a bit tough and maybe a little too much. But, never stopping, behind Instagram a lot is happening 👍🏼 😘😘

* Want to help? Via link in bio you can donate to my PayPal. 100% goes to the people who shout for help!

Welcome to Turkey! This photo is taken at the Turk

Welcome to Turkey! This photo is taken at the Turkish/Syrian border.

In Europe we are too building fences like these and walls like the Mexican / USA wall.

Why? Because people fleeing from famine, drought, war are trying to find safety here and we don’t want that...

So today, on #worldrefugeeday there is nothing to be celebrating, nothing to be happy about.

As long as we built walls and fences instead of bridges and relationships we have lost.

As long as we close doors and borders instead of opening them we are far from freedom and equality.

As long as we keep dictators where they are and stop people from running away from their oppressive regime we are far from peace.

There shouldn’t be a World Refugee Day, every day should be the day that we fight borders like these, that we strive for freedom and equality for all and work towards peace. Every single day.

Let’s start today shall we? 💪🏽

“You only get into the back of a dark truck wher

“You only get into the back of a dark truck where you almost suffocate because there is no air for four hours with your children because your home is not safe, because there is no home anymore. You will not take this dangerous route with your kids if there is another way.”

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I think we should stop calling all things a humani

I think we should stop calling all things a humanitarian crisis. In Yemen there is no humanitarian crisis there is hunger. In Syria there is no humanitarian crisis there is a war. In Sudan and Ethiopia it’s not a humanitarian crisis that creates refugees, it’s mass killings.

We don’t talk about a humanitarian crisis when we talk about the Holocaust, we talk about genocide. So why calling everything the same when it’s not. Let’s call it what it is: war, murder, oppression, hunger, climate change, mass killings, genocide, ethnic cleansing and so on.

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“We do what anyone would do.” When your hous

“We do what anyone would do.”

When your house is on fire, you don’t stay.
When your boat is sinking, you don’t stay.
When the volcano is erupting, you don’t stay.
When the town is flooded, you don’t stay.
When your country is in war, you don’t stay.
When your president is a dictator who kills and tortures people and tells you you’re next, you don’t stay.

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💔Wow there is so much going on in Lebanon I don

💔Wow there is so much going on in Lebanon I don’t even know where to begin.

1️⃣ Hyperinflation!

Due to a hyperinflation prices increased 10 times, however the people earn 10 times less. Thus there is no money to buy bread, water, fuel. The UN warns that 80% of households in Lebanon do not have enough money to buy food.

2️⃣ Electricity!

The government of Lebanon provides only 4 hours of electricity per day. The other hours people have to find electricity for themselves. Which they do with generators. However there is a lack of diesel. For 10 hours people are waiting in front of gas stations to get themselves some diesel.

3️⃣ Medicine!

As Lebanon imports most of the medicine it now has a problem of buying because of the hyperinflation. Hospitals are already burdened by the lack of electricity and now also the shortage of medicine.

4️⃣ Refugees!

Lebanon has about 1.5 million refugees. That’s 1.5 million mouths extra to feed. Many of those people live in horrible and inhumane circumstances. They earn a lot less than the Lebanese people and also lack a safety net. The UNHCR is not allowed to operate in Lebanon, therefor these people suffer even more from the economic crisis.

😩 Almost 3/4 of the Lebanese people are living in poverty. And this is only part of what’s going on…

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On assignment for @kooyrigs
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“We have about 1.000 patients a day. Due to a fu

“We have about 1.000 patients a day. Due to a fuel shortage we don’t have enough medicine to hand out. And imagine what an electricity shortage does to a centre where 1.000 people a day come.”

Yesterday I visited the @karagheusianassociation to deliver medicine with @kooyrigs. This center offers medical help for free to people in need. Refugees, migrants and locals alike come here to find help.

With the financial crisis they see an increase in patients. Soldiers who once earned about 1.000 dollar a month (enough to sustain) are now earning 70 dollars a month due to the hyperinflation that Lebanon experiences now. There is not enough money for food let alone for a doctor.

People are hungry, are scared. Tripoli (North Lebanon) is without electricity and internet already. What happens when the people of Beirut are without electricity? What will happen to the patients in the hospital?

A tragedy is unfolding here in Lebanon. One year after the explosion, two years after the revolution started. Another year, another crisis 😢

Help me spread the dire situation in Lebanon and share this post ♥️
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Maram (4) never been to school a day in her life,

Maram (4) never been to school a day in her life, only knows life on the run. From hiding in a truck to floating on a boat in the dark. From being stuck in a room with too many people waiting to be smuggled to surviving the heat and violence in a refugee camp.

And now, Maram has Corona. We all know what it is, we all know the devastation it has to our lives. Maram doesn’t know. She only knows that life is hard and even though they now finally have a small house, she has yet another thing to face.

She’s only four years old and life hasn’t been kind on her. She has been through things no person should go through.

Sweet Maram, get better soon 😘😘 May this be the last obstacle in your life ♥️

Photo taken August 2020
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This is Keto, she’s 72 years old and lives in on

This is Keto, she’s 72 years old and lives in one of the Sanatoriums of Tskaltubo, Georgia.

When her village and house got bombed in 1992 she couldn’t pack anything. There is no picture, no jewellery, nothing that she brought with her when she fled.

While she ran, bullets were flying over their heads. Her son being in the army, she feared for his life.

And then she got the bad news. Her son had died in the battle. Only a young boy, the grieve was immense. The funeral was small, she had made a beautiful stone for him. Her heart was broken.

One day, a knock on the door. Her son stood there! Alive and well. He told her he had to run and hide into the forest. He was eating only chestnuts for days. Until an Abkhazian family helped him. They hid him inside their home until it was safe enough to get him over the border into Georgia.

Her son now still lives with her. It’s been almost thirty years but she remembers this as it was yesterday. So happy and grateful that her son survived the war and is in good health.

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