You are making it worse,” he cries. Help us deliver informative, accessible, independent journalism that you can trust and provides accountability to the millions of people affected by crises worldwide. She has been wheezing all night. If you can handle the weight of what that link represents, I urge you to Walk in the Shoes of a Refugee. December 19, 2020. In this setting, I worked in triage in a medical clinic made of port-a-cabins on the shoreline next to Kara Tepe II. The new camp lacks stable electricity, has inadequate washing facilities, and is prone to flooding. But the chilling effect, like in all these cases, is still there, even if they don't necessarily have to directly act upon it.”. After a negative test, they will be able to see a doctor. PIKPA is an open refugee camp in Mytilene, Lesvos. This year also saw raids against NGOs in Athens, with police confiscating equipment and data. Critics have also alleged the government violated international law by suspending asylum procedure in March, instituted overly-punitive COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in camps, withheld integration support to those who have received asylum, tear-gassed protesters and shut down accommodation for asylum seekers. station where refugees are registered and the camp of Kara Tepe, where they will stay until they get their document authorizing them to travel freely in Greece) with their bags under a blazing sun. Rose is breastfeeding her baby, born last August while living in the chaos of the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. They fled Somalia together. (Elias Marcou/REUTERS). Probably related to this, a fist fight broke out amongst young men during the food distribution time. 24th April 2016 Today there was beef served for dinner at the Kara Tepe refugee camp so tensions were high; everyone is more eager to receive their share. Sign up to receive our original, on-the-ground coverage that informs policymakers, practitioners, donors, and others who want to make the world more humane. Doc Mobile and Sport for Refugees offer refugee support and activities at this center. In this moving account from our archives, one Vancouverite shares her story of volunteering in a refugee camp in Greece, the families she met, and the children she’ll never forget. For the next three weeks, I stayed in Kara Tepe and Moria, the two refugee camps, as a volunteer for Save the Children, the international relief organization. Only one member of each family can leave the camps per week, a measure that is strictly enforced - despite the fact that no such restriction exists for people living in towns and cities across Greece. Social Media Manager & General Dogsbody for Humanitarian Support Agency. He says this law is part of the same strategy, and is designed to prevent people from reporting on what's happening on the inside because that would make it "clear as day" that the government's narrative of greater control is distorted. A place where people on the move can access more than just their basic needs, but services and … The New Humanitarian is an independent, non-profit newsroom founded in 1995. One Happy Family Community Center is located 4.9 km. She is holding her swaddled four-month-old baby and cries out for help. This law is the latest step in what has been characterised as a crackdown on NGO workers and volunteers since the right-wing New Democracy party took over government mid-2019. Masouma, a young Afghani woman living at the Kara Tepe refugee camp in Greece for the last six months, is a shining example of an empowered woman. Our Somali interpreter, Abdi, is close by. Kara Tepe, which is just a few kilometres from Moria, has been hailed as an exemplary site for housing refugee families. "Shirin", an Afghan journalist at Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos Kara Tepe is considered the “good” camp on Lesvos. Kara Tepe (Greek: Καρά Τεπέ, from Turkish for "black hill") is located about 2.5 km to the north of Mytilene, the capital of the island of Lesbos. My name is Hannah and I will be travelling to Lesvos in May to volunteer with a Dutch organization called Because We Carry (BWC). If European countries remain unwilling to reckon with the larger identity crisis underlying these policies – the refusal to accept non-white and non-Christian refugees as integral parts of their societies – a generation of people like Ahmad, Mohammed, and Fatima will continue to be dehumanised and retraumatised. The photo was taken in Kara Tepe camp by Jade Beall. Go Project Hope will provide dental hygiene lessons to the children at Kara Tepe in Lesbos, Greece. I don't want to show up empty handed so I’m raising money to s.. Hi everybody, From February 3rd to 12th I’m travelling to refugee camp Kara Tepe on Lesbos to do volunteer work. After hands grabbed for the preferred colors—yellow and blue-green were in demand for drawing the sun and the sea—most of the kids spent the next hour depicting the usual scenes of flowers and clouds, dogs and cats, and stick-figure portraits of their families. The child has been having diarrhoea for several days. In this exclusive video report produced by the Real News Network (TRNN), Dimitri Lascaris, correspondent for TRNN, provides context to the ongoing refugee crises and talks directly with two refugees from the Kara Tepe refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece, about their travel experiences as well as the reasons why they left their countries of origin.. Kara Tepe houses about 700 refugees. Camp Care Comics is a series of engaging booklets and care kits that address unpleasant health conditions, such as lice, scabies and toxic stress in a fun and engaging way. I returned to work as a volunteer physician on Lesvos in December last year. Under the new law, workers operating within a refugee camp, including volunteers and government civil servants, are not to publicly share any information related to the operations or residents of the camp, and this applies even after they stop working there. The New Democracy government has been keen to show they are better able to manage migration within the country, with a greater emphasis on control, than the previous Syriza government. Rainfall floods dozens of tents in Kara Tepe camp 1,778 Views Dozens of tents were flooded and large parts of Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesvos came under water after a strong rainfall on Thursday, an expected development as many people warned about from the very first moment the camp was set up. Eight women live in one of 18 small basic rooms under a large tent, nicknamed "the women's camp." https://www.actvism.org/en/opinions/kara-tepe-refugee-camp-lesvos-greece Based in Lesvos, Greece. Perpetually overcrowded and under serviced, Moria burned down in September 2020 only to be temporarily replaced by Kara Tepe II, where conditions are reportedly worse. The wind threatens to yank off my carefully tied hijab. I write about how migration is affecting European business and society, Lisa R. 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Vodafone Foundation continued its response to the European refugee crisis by deploying a team of four volunteers to Kara Tepe refugee camp in October. After volunteering in Kara Tepe Refugee Camp for almost two months and hearing people’s personal stories in the many layers of pain they are built upon, I couldn’t get through this one without crying. In October, a group of 29 humanitarian NGOs called on the Greek parliament to investigate so-called “pushbacks” of asylum seekers from Greek territory back into Turkey, as well as outright extrajudicial expulsions, both of which would violate international non-refoulement law. Refugee for Refugees operates a warehouse near Moria Camp. She worked in the Moria camp where more than 8,000 people live. I struggle to comprehend how someone so frail survived the arduous journey. Follow me on twitter @FreyLindsayMCP, or email me on friederik.lindsay@gmail.com, © 2021 Forbes Media LLC. Our reporting on humanitarian aid has uncovered sex scandals, scams, data breaches, corruption, and much more. The Greek government has enacted a new law that prevents NGO workers and volunteers from talking about abuse, neglect or deprivation in the country's refugee camps. She also worked at Kara Tepe camp “which is considered palatial compared to Moria.” It accommodates over 1,200 refugees. Lesvos Solidarity manages Pikpa camp. She is shaking and shivering with a fever and showing signs of kidney infection and severe dehydration. On the streets of Mytilini, the main town on Lesvos, I was also stopped several times by police who seemed to find it hard to believe I was a Canadian citizen, not a refugee with a stolen passport. Though many of the issues in Greece long predate the current government, they nonetheless have come in for significant criticism for their treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. *Ahmad makes it to the front of the line carrying his two-year-old daughter, carefully wrapped in a blanket. Our beloved puppet Abu Rami will visit Kara Tepe with a special lesson and will pass out dental kits to children and caregivers. In news reports , Notis Mitarachi, Minister of Migration and Asylum, cited a request by the local community to close Pikpa . I try to warm up Fatima’s hands so the pulse oximeter will take an accurate reading of her blood oxygen level. Shelter at Kara Tepe refugee camp So, especially for the ladies, imagine yourself in this scenario. Shelter at Kara Tepe refugee camp So, especially for the ladies, imagine yourself in this scenario. But Ahmad’s eyes fill with fear, and he backs away. Kara Tepe: A refugee camp built on top of ancient/Ottoman ruins. I need to know if he is a torture survivor so I can refer him to more-specialised psychiatric care. We keep our journalism free – no paywalls – thanks to the support of donors and readers like you who believe we need more independent journalism in the world. Kara Tepe refugee camp, on Lesvos, Greece. Breaking News; Kara Tepe: Babies bitten by rats in a refugee camp. From February 3rd to 12th, Marie and Frank travelled to Lesvos, to do volunteer work at the refugee camp Kara Tepe and organise a project week for students and teachers of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. The stray dogs bite at my ankles. But if they test positive, they will be sent to the ‘isolation centre’, which is really a series of tents cordoned off behind barbed wire where necessary care is non-existent. Amid all this, says Open Society's Manos Moschopoulos, the government has doubled-down on closing off the refugee camps to the outside world, all the while denying the allegations of abuse and deprivation. The same regulation gave the Greek migration ministry broad powers to effectively shut down operations of any NGO that fell foul of them, which Moschopoulos described as a "blatant attempt to exclude people willing to speak up about abuses and wrongdoing within the state's official system.". All … The Minister inspected the living conditions of the approximately 7,000 asylum-seekers in the camp, where icy conditions prevailed, and “issued instructions for their improvement,” state media reported. Read also: 'We made it': Iraqi refugee … The news of the planned closure of Pikpa camp comes after the earlier announcement by the government that Kara Tepe Camp, also accommodating vulnerable people, must close by the end of December. By 2016, the world was in a crisis of a different sort as more than a million refugees fled war and unrest in search of a better life. Kara Tepe is a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. Around 7,000 people live in the Kara Tepe II camp for refugees and migrants (in the background), erected last year on the island of Lesvos, Greece after the Moria camp was destroyed in a fire. My face shield painfully whips against my cheeks. I returned to work as a volunteer physician on Lesvos in December last year. It is clear to me that this is what happens when racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic border policies collide with a pandemic: People who have already been dehumanised are neglected, or worse, targeted. After a fire destroyed that camp, the two women were repatriated to the Kara Tepe camp, along with more than 6,000 other people. He is a refugee and also lives in the camp. I check vitals, screen for COVID symptoms, and try to decide who should be allowed through to see my fellow doctors and nurses inside. Perhaps most notoriously this year, in September, a fire raged through the Moria detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos. Kara Tepe was the overflow site for Moria Refugee Camp, the main registration center in Greece and Eu… The Site Manager is Mr. Michail Batzakis. Marie worked in clothing distribution with a Dutch NGO, Movement On The Ground. We deliver quality, reliable journalism about crises and big issues impacting the world today. The conditions there are appalling. Support our journalism and become more involved in our community. On Lesbos alone, 49 children and young people with … This dehumanisation started long before the pandemic, but COVID has provided a pretext for it to continue largely under the radar and with impunity – as evidenced by the increase in violent and illegal pushbacks at the EU’s external borders in the past year. north of Mytilene, a 10-minute walk from Kara Tepe camp. I came to Kara Tepe in May 2017 to volunteer with a group of other Harvard students. And greater restrictions on refugees' movement due to the pandemic have seriously hampered their ability to access basic services, like healthcare. Last May, at Kara Tepe refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, seven school-age children gathered at a table to play with crayons. The Greek government’s decision to shut down Pikpa, an open volunteer-run refugee shelter on the island of Lesbos, is a mistake we cannot afford to make. When I step outside to sip water from under my many layers of PPE, I see an Afghan woman behind the barbed wire separating the COVID ‘isolation centre’ from the clinic. Source: Getty Images (obviously) When needed, these sorted boxes get moved 80 meters across the gravel access road to camp and into a green shipping container to restock the supply at the distribution point. This striking quote from Laura, one of the founders of Movement On The Ground, truly applies to our resident and visiting volunteer-run clothing store in Kara Tepe. The migration ministry says that the Kara Tepe camp, built within days under emergency conditions to house thousands left homeless by the fire, is temporary. As a doctor in a European refugee camp, I found deep neglect and xenophobia ... Around 7,000 people live in the Kara Tepe II camp for refugees and migrants (in the background), erected last year on the island of Lesvos, Greece after the Moria camp was destroyed in a fire. In both Kara Tepe Refugee Camp and Moria Refugee Camp, authorities have announced that movement outside the camp will be restricted to 100 people leaving each hour, between 7am-7pm, and that only one individual per family is allowed to leave the camps at a time. Back inside the clinic, I meet 25-year-old Fatima. It will be replaced in 2021 by a new, permanent camp for up to 5,000 people created with EU assistance. The sanitation facilities in Kara Tepe II are inadequate, and refugees are only provided two meals a day, often consisting of rotten, inedible food. The camp is managed by the Municipality of Mytilene and UNHCR in collaboration with the NGOs that operate there. Become a member of The New Humanitarian today. Today Kara Tepe Resident Village paints a vastly different picture. Read writing from Gary Brown on Medium. We provide distribution through a system where refugees receive much needed necessary aid […] My last day helping at Kara Tepe camp was significant for me but just like any other day stuck in the dust, sweat and injustice for those waiting in a limbo not of their own making. It is a self-organised, autonomous space run by volunteers and is built on the principle of solidarity. It’s an easy way to remove or prosecute NGOs and volunteers.”. A hundred muffled voices call out from behind face masks in Dari, French Lingala, and Somali insisting they need to be seen by a doctor. The rest I have to turn away. It has transformed, into what we believe, should be the minimum of every refugee camp across the globe. Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis paid a visit to the hot spot of Kara Tepe on the island of Lesvos at midnight Tuesday. We’re on the ground, reporting from the front lines, to bring you the inside story. On my own journey to Lesvos, airport security repeatedly forced me to remove my hijab, something I have only previously experienced in Xinjiang province, where the Chinese government is holding an estimated 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in so-called ‘re-education camps’ where rape and torture are reportedly systematic. “You get this vague kind of reference at the end of the law, that anyone who violates it would face the so-called legal consequences" says Moschopoulos, “but it is impossible to say what those legal consequences will actually be. Your contribution means we can continue delivering award-winning journalism about crises. These people have escaped from war zones, crossed hostile borders, and braved the sea, only to end up here, on the Greek island of Lesvos, where I’ve seen the EU’s racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic migration policies intensify during the coronavirus pandemic.
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