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inevitably sea levels rise by at least one meter in a century it's really frightening more. why are people more concerned. starts may 31st on t.w. . and saudia. i'm from damascus syria i'm 17 years old. so but yeah i lost my parents in the war. my 1st fled to turkey and was there for 4 months and i 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 last 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 that no. life in the camp is bad to fool. some people take drugs or get drunk they're out of control. they hit us and our containers are wrecked. and have. no windows the doors are broken out. and frankly especially at night.
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we have hardly any drinking water. but in the evenings there's only cold water to shower. we are going to circle the earth and there at the refugee reception center on the island of samarra lane a path iraqi encounter 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 met rousey only looks after
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miners separated from their families. medical give me up we have got if only to work weeks is this a nice surprise today and if i may have passed martha met address it has sent us clothes and shoes i will think that they may have made we asked for them a long time ago the market you know the best part was if the lake 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 drowsy has requested night of their faces or names are made public. young people come to see lena even before she has made her way to their containers . 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 to be examined
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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 what these are. they seeking attention what is more they want someone to come to them and careful and. not their exes for that all of this the it is that what can we do to ensure that a miner who self harms doesn't seriously injure himself or even put his life at risk. even if that wasn't his intention and as long as 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. because you know my legs. this should be this was
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a 5 this should make some. of this for i experience how many times that there are you. know free spaces right now in the mainland there are a lot of kids a lot of unaccompanied minors. who are without their say that. so busy i know about sonja's greece only has proper accommodation for 1000 minus a further 2500 under-age asylum seekers live 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 i'm all alone as
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a header law i think it might be easier to bear staying here if you had your family lived off but my parents are dead nor that this has been my expected to get out of here after 3 months at most and if i feel helpless there's nothing i can do to change matters headers of. their house that i. was 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. oh well 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. want them to work less. of us closer of course sabo says it's that mean i can leave it right then assume the most important thing for the e.u. would be to finance shelters for minors again it's worse than a lot of the couples up 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 state all secondly the e.u. should pressure member states to at least speed up family reunification. relaxants i'm going now 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 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 mom are through it 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 a remarkable thing 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
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camp from syria afghanistan pakistan the ivory coast and somalia you never know whole. part about around one month ago there was a serious incident. of the effort of his wife nicole at the 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 a mess as the heart of it all and only on this bus i have yeah find out. what was the engine. that. this video was filmed by miners inside one of the containers at the time of the attack. is the mother met ben we asked mom we have. again there are by the time police
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arrived much had already been broken because maybe there were personal differences also haps religious tensions between the ethnic groups led to the clash. or it started off with minor things but calm unaided in lots of people rioting then at a container with the kids from afghanistan stay was hit especially hard their beds the windows everything was destroyed but a fair congress or another we found temporary accommodation for the children. now things have calmed down again men were waiting for the repair costs to be approved the containers need to be replaced all renovated up up up up on the 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 over to test.
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their. 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 the procedures take a long time here to here says. in the. zumo men now unless the limb or. these children are from war zones sometimes they're aggressive sometimes they're incredibly patient. it isn't that goes on a school when they talk about their dead parents they're 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 as a boy. it's their way of distancing themselves as if they weren't part of their own story. and our own nor yet at the same time they can start crying because of
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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 a number of times. lena pepper arche went with him into the police 3 days ago feel that they could as the nasa get these men you don't have to lock yourself in the container. but don't go down to town along with the same ones like by the book and make sure you always have your cell phone on your. 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 straight away follow the gay skiff i may have all the psychologist can't be in the camp 27 back in town from teen unaccompanied minors under the age of 15 awaiting for her in a shelter run by her organization. in
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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 us helped out but since the controversial 2016 e.u. turkey deal came into effect less migrants are moving on to mainland europe and they also on 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 vassie. 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 enough. they're demonstrating against the e.u. turkey deal. you don't think you must you can 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 pepper arche has a measured outlook she says most residents of sa most are 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 metal 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 he had been separated from his parents
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during their journey. the fact. they think was. in those they actually mean i don't think any mother would give her children to smuggle as you know let them go on an overcrowded ours went to the rough sea i'm not times less their lives were in immediate danger now coffee was for to be on the o.p.'s won't give them their that is why they take those risks. and sell all the. they have to be able to send their kids to europe the middle. 80 if you don't have real fun in their homelands people are persecuted or even killed 3. there is how is 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. 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 sheltered. here they cook for us. we were allowed to go to school. i'm learning english. people in the camp 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 in thessaloniki but it had to recently close it because of insufficient funds laina says greece doesn't have the means to provide asylum seekers with humane conditions he a lot of us can't bear but they have grace is
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a condom me has been weakened to 7 years now. that would in effect he can't even guarantee food for its own children q.d.o.s. believe many young people are leaving for other countries to find work either within a year of looking at that this or on to other continents yeah especially greek people between 20 and 35 often it's those who have university degrees who leave meaning we don't have enough skilled workers to 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 being kept here for 8 months
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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've put me into an early grave here. certainly not a little while before i was taking kickboxing but the other children's parents complained because they didn't 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. but i said i've been approached a number of times where it below so they can get me out of your illegal if i can pay them and. i don't have to scared. as most dangerous. smugglers aren't syria. all 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 undid one truck start and my friend and i jumped under. the flats are you scape the island has been measured yet but i was on course for 3 and a half months and i had thought how they know how to leave miners in that camp without protection. 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 there and in my uncle and. but. i feel scared and average wish i had all the talent. around her 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 that 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. there is an old man who lives by victoria square he's a foreigner with a greek passport as he approached my friend and me once and said i'll give you money if you come home with me. we pushed him off and ran away the 1st no had i was on my way home when that happened to me under tahrir square that i had at that it will that. everyone in athens knows what goes on after nightfall on the square. there are drug dealers and even under-age prostitution.
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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. they're forced to do it for little money for $10.00 or 20 year olds at the most i need the money for food clothes and cigarettes. the old man who approaches a 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'm responsible 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 about it. we've spent too long in these desperate circumstances also
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enough us. back consomme 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. or so is the sas when it comes to diseases prevention is better more effective and less expensive than treatment. that they have also purity or a cure so pure if korea yen 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 because these children will be staying in europe they will not be
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