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inevitably sea levels rise by at least one meter in this century it's really frightening. why are people more concerned. little yellow. stars mean 31st on t.w. . and saudia. i'm from damascus syria i'm 17 years old. so yeah i lost my parents in the war that i 1st fled to turkey and was there for 4 months. i was very angry in turkey because people there are extremely racist
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against syrians almost my entire family is dead. my one brother is all i have left he's in europe and i want to go to him. but i don't know when i can leave here. and also i'm waiting for permission and i know. life in the camp is bad it's too full. some people take drugs or get drunk they're out of control. they hit us and our containers are wrecked. no windows the doors are broken out. and frankly especially at night. it gets so
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cold that. we have hardly any drinking water. and in the evenings there is only cold water to charlotte. at the refugee reception center on the island of samarra lehner parakeet encounters such problems every day the psychologist works with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers the camp currently holds 3 times as many people as it was designed for the new people continue to arrive every day despite the balkan cargo having being closed the asylum seekers are not allowed to leave the island many have had to settle on the edges of the overfilled camp where they live under deplorable conditions plain a paper arche works for the greek n.g.o.s method rassi roughly translated that means to look after later once there were more helpers than residents now almost all funds have stopped and hardly any help has remained method rousey only looks
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after miners separated from their families. smith come get me if we have got if only work weeks in this a nice surprise today. and if i may have asked martha mess address it has sent us clothes and shoes. that they have made we asked for them a long time ago the market you know the response their mamas if the leak or many things are lacking within the camp lena pepper arche goes to fetch one of her n.g.o.s translators to speak with the miners to keep them safe mehta drusie has requested night of their faces or names are made public. that young people come to see lane or even before she has made her way to their containers where this young man from afghanistan apparently gave an incorrect age when he arrived at the reception center now lena pepper arche explains he will have
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to be examined by a doctor. often the miners here have been marked by their experiences they are lost and traumatized. economy almost but if the losses we've had suicidal children and lots of kids self harm by cutting themselves for instance or fears or. they seek attention what is more school they want someone to come to them and care for them battle not that i exist or that all of this the it is what can we do to ensure that a minor who self harms doesn't seriously injure himself or even put his life at risk. even if that wasn't his intention and yes one of the bottom of the hospital. several of the boys want to get to central or northern europe some even have fully formed plans and are well informed regarding their rights as unaccompanied minors. you've got to get to my level. this should be dispositive of this should make some
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. of this for i explained how many times that they knew there are no free spaces right now in the mainland there are a lot of kids a lot of our michael but my miners. who are without a say that. so i know about the homeless greece only has proper accommodation for 1000 miners of the 2500 under-age asylum seekers living in camps some are in police custody many have relatives in central europe and want to join them there by law once a minor has been approved for family reunification greece has to send him or her to the receiving country within 6 months. hardly any minors want to stay in greece especially not in the camps. and i don't know what if i'm all alone as
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a header why i think it might be easier to bear staying here if you had your family but my parents are dead and nor my expected to get out of here after 3 months at most. i feel helpless there's nothing i can do to change matters little head as if . there is no. one when you are forced to live in a camp like this one time passes far too slowly especially for a 17 year old with no money to buy or do anything. but every 3 days a boat brings food from the mainland meals are served straight from the fridge in the camp. and people have one and a half liters of water to drink per day. one. that. many don't like the 3rd those who still have money often throw it away.
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attracting mice and rats. or there are a lot. of us go there of course most have it's the knack and we have a bite then assume the most important thing for the e.u. would be to finance shelters for miners again it was then about in the top of that with e.m.i. when we are so that children have a safe place to stay with proper food and access to health care. less if it is c.s. get of their 3rd all secondly the e.u. should pressure member states to at least speed up family reunification. relaxant them going out if there's a child whose mother is in germany and that child has all the necessary documents to go to her then it's inhumane. to make that child wait here for 6 months or more
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x. you mean astrid has already spent 3 months in turkey night and made the life threatening journey across the aegean sea to greece. i'm never out and all the while the mother is waiting in germany and me the ma ma i think it should be possible to take no more than a month to find out where in europe a child's family is and to send that child to them immediately with a map of a child needs to be able to begin its new life straight away. but the countries many asylum seekers hope to reach someday are storming the application processes some refused to accept any asylum seekers leaving the migrants and refugees with no option other than waiting sometimes they wait an entire year unprotected and at risk of violence. 3 boys 16 and 17 year olds live in this section of the camp from syria afghanistan pakistan the ivory coast
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and somalia you never know whole. part about around one month ago there was a serious incident. and the effort of his hasn't caught that's arabic speaking adults armed with crowbars sticks and fire broke into the minus containers. they caused a lot of damage though you'll be big on him as is the heart of it all and only on caspar some have yaphet out. what was. that. this video was filmed by miners inside one of the containers at the time of the attack. as the mother met ben we asked nomic. again there by the time police arrived much
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had already been broken up maybe there were personal differences also haps religious tensions between the ethnic groups led to the clash with the now i don't know it started off with minor things but calm unaided in lots of people rioting in a container with the kids from afghanistan stay was hit especially hard their beds the windows everything was destroyed by the fire of congress not enough we found temporary accommodation for the children. now things have calmed down again many where waiting for the repair costs to be approved the containers need to be replaced all renovated up at the top and we have biggest problem is that the windows are broken and that means the boys are exposed to cold and rain for now they have put blankets across the windows to protect themselves at this very best.
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there. he says he struck the container and in the process injured his hands and leg because he's been waiting here for his papers for 6 months already and feels nobody is doing anything to help all of the procedures take a long time here go here to go serve. in the. zoo more men now less for war no more. these children are from war zones or sometimes they're aggressive or sometimes they're incredibly patient. it isn't the girls only school when they talk about their dead parents or their dead siblings obama tax that destroyed their schools and homes and killed other kids from their neighborhood it's like they're describing a film with it as a boy it's their way of distancing themselves as if they weren't part of their own story
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a person are piled up on or at the same time they can start crying because of a scratch or because their shoes are too big yeah it's as if he were hitting them twice or 3 times as hard. is the norm is there no. some of the adult residents have abused this boy from syria and number of times. lina pepper arche went with him into the police 3 days ago feel that they could as the knesset these men you don't have to lock yourself in the container. but don't go down to town alone any someone's life by the book and make sure you always have your cell phone on you that if something happens even if you can't talk try to call my number again the i'll come and find you in the camp straightaway. if i may have a psychologist can't be in the camp 27 back in town from teen unaccompanied minors under the age of 15 awaiting for in
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a shelter run by her organization. where . in places sarmast lies just 1500 meters off the turkish coast on all the greek islands with refugee camps the situation is just as bad. the town vassie. back when the refugee crisis 1st began almost everyone on some most helped out. since the controversial 2016 e.u. turkey deal came into effect less migrants are moving on to mainland europe and they also want returning to turkey the ones welcoming locals have begun to resent the agreement. the town has only 6500 residents
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while 2500 asylum seekers live in the camp overlooking fathi. people here are demonstrating for the camp above the town to be closed the protest was organized by some os s. o. s. a radical group whose members include far right residents and overwhelmed locals that they are demonstrating against the e.u. turkey deal. you don't think you must think you see here a priest from the greek orthodox church is also present as a several refugees they have joined the far right group because they share its goal they want to get off the island some most s.o.'s claims n.g.o.s are keeping asylum seekers on the island longer than necessary in order to make money the mood is
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tense. they know pavarotti has a measured outlook she says most residents of some. a not against refugees still she has to protect her boys. the shelter for the under 15 year olds lies inside the city its location is kept secret no one is allowed to leave the shelter today. the past leading to a house in which a family could live a wish on a drawing made by a child within the shelter the psychologist lena pepper arche and the mehta draw see team help in every way they can but only 14 boys can live in their samar shelter those who are most traumatised and who could not possibly stay in the camp the youngest boy who arrived here was only 2 years old been separated from his
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parents during their journey. back. alfie the lovely spot. in all the activity i don't think any mother would give her children to smugglers or let them go on an overcrowded dinkie alice went to the rough sea i'm not done says their lives were in immediate danger the huffy we asked for to be on the o.p.'s won't give them their that is why they take those risks. and sell all they have to be able to send their kids to europe. 88 of them will find it in their homelands people are persecuted or even killed. there is hope that if i were a mother i would choose hope as well that the only other many people in the shelter questions about personal histories and war experiences are forbidden for
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the safety of the boys this 15 year old is from syria. well i lived in the car for one month but you can't call that living. it's nothing like life here where we have a roof over our heads and shelters. here they cook for us. and we were allowed to go to school. i'm learning english. people in the camp are living. on a washing. the ngo runs for shelters in greece it would need 150 more to take in all of the unaccompanied minors in the country better drugs he used to have a 5th shelter infesting the needy but it had to recently closed it because of insufficient funds laina says greece doesn't have the means to provide asylum seekers with humane conditions the evidence. that they disgrace is
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a con of me has been weak to 7 years now the good enough that it's they think it's that he can't even guarantee food for its own children. many young people are leaving for other countries to find work or either within a year is looking out at this or on to other continents yeah especially greek people between $20.35 often it's those who have university degrees who leave meaning we don't have enough skilled workers for refugees looking to build a new life here finding a job and home is really hard. meals are cooked for the children in the shelter as they have an official place of residence they can attend local schools and still even these kids want to leave the island to join their families. or to give us what i want to go to my brothers in sweden i think kept here for 8
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months but why. i don't mind going to school but i don't understand any greek. also i already went to school for 9 years in syria and they put me into an early grave here. certainly not let us know what before i was taking kickboxing but the other children's parents complained because they did not want refugees in the class so i had to stop some greeks don't want me there we're stranded here and i don't know how to live. so i accept what i said i've been approached a number of times where people are so they can get me out of your illegal enough i can pay them and. i don't have to scared it. smells dangerous. the smugglers aren't syria. or city. in greece around 80 unaccompanied minors slip away from camps in shelters every month those who do get
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registered as missing some try to travel north by land or via the port of patricide . others show up among the nearly 3000000 inhabitants of athens this boy is also syrian he's from aleppo 15 years old and living illegally in athens. busy i went to the port and. there's a place where cars and trucks wait to board the ship that that's where i understood one truck start and my friend and i jumped under. the flats are you skate the island this is the national yak but i was on course for 3 and a half months and i had that i had they know how to leave miners in their camp without protection so we were beaten almost every day by afghans or pakistanis when i came to athens one month ago but it's tough for me i even had to sleep on the
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streets. but i want to go to germany to my brother and i and in my uncle and. but. i feel scared and athletes wish i had all the time and. i don't have papers so i have to always be on the lookout for the police i don't want to be sent to jail for several months. but in athens unaccompanied minors feel they are closer to their go they don't want to wait anymore and don't trust the legal family reunification process they are however kept updated about their applications by ngo employees who meet them on officially and in case the legal family reunification process doesn't get them out of greece they can always turn to the many smugglers in athens who sell fake passports to children or offer to smuggle them out via new illegal routes.
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the key meeting point is victoria square in the heart of athens for these children the square is a dangerous waiting room for going further north. yeah . there's an old man who lives by victoria square he's a foreigner with a greek passport he approached my friend in me once and said i'll give you money if you come home with me. so. we pushed him off and ran away. the 1st no had i was on my way home when that happened to me on victoria square that i had thought that it will be the. everyone in athens knows what goes on after nightfall on the square. there are drug
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dealers and even underage prostitution. this man has been making the rounds for hours and surveilling the boys is he a pimp or a perspective customer either way he won't have to play hardball if there is a minor looking to earn money to pay a smuggler. 117 year old from afghanistan who has been prostituting himself wants to talk to us but not near victoria square. he suggests one of athens quiet suburbs on the way there he tells us he lives in a camp close to the city with his 10 year old brother before they both had to sleep on victoria square. 6 tell us. all that i hate victoria square. there they are on every corner from
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not just greeks but men who speak to us in english too it's out of desperation. you're forced to do it for a little money for $10.00 or 20 year olds at the most i need the money for food clothes and cigarettes. the old men who approaches are lost and lonely often they just want to feel physically close to someone. they're full of problems and diseases. my brother is only 10 years old. he doesn't have anyone here but me. i miss. constable for him i need to make sure he has what he needs. it really upsets me when he wants something and i'm not able to get it for him i'm so ashamed. i hate myself for this disgrace i've built over myself. it's burning me out and i can't talk to anyone
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about it. we've spent too long in these desperate circumstances also enough us. back on some of us once again from tanks the european border and coastal guard agency is bringing migrants to the island then a pap iraki will be informed whether there are any minus. the sas family when it comes to diseases prevention is better more effective and less expensive than treatment. that they have also purity or. korea yet in the same applies to the minus situation the faster we can help these children get out of the cancer and start integrating into society the earlier we can give them treatment to overcome the trauma they have experienced and make them stronger again the better it will be also for the future of europe several here
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