nevertheless, jean claude jeonger is reminding everyone that not long ago refugees came from the east block countries. looking for asylum in western europe. maybe people need their memories refreshed. 24 hours ago i was in belgium, a european country receiving a lot of asylum. processing 150 requests. the big effort towards dealing with and helping with the refugee crisis is coming from ordinary belgium people. >> reporter: among the trees a village of tents sprung up. the first refugees arrived two weeks ago and the people of brussels rushed to help. vanessa has been here since day one. she and the other volunteers set up a range of services for the refugees. >> here is the kitchen. they offer the refugees hot meals drought the day. food is donated by local people and charities. there are about 1,000 people in the camp. as it's grown, there has been complaints for some quarters. >> really, we don't listen to the complaint. we don't. we are sure what we are doing is good. we keep on doing the good work without listening to people. >> more volunteers are arriving all the time. differen