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Thursday, November 24, 2016

'Drunks, dimwits and hoarders’: the trials of a refugee camp volunteer

Working in a refugee camp in Greece is frustrating experience with hungover or naval-gazing volunteers, perilous safety risks and ineffectual NGOs My wife Caroline and I are volunteering in an unheated, abandoned factory near Thessaloniki that is now home to more than a thousand Syrian refugees. Unusually, the camp is run by Syrians. The army keeps the power on, provides lunch and mans the gate, but everything else is in the hands of a committee of five Syrians. Related: Secret aid worker: Greece has exposed the aid community's failures If you were the person who sent the short black sequinned evening dress; what were you thinking? Related: Aid agencies have failed in Greece – your responses Continue reading...


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