The BBC on Agathonisi
Aug. 31st, 2015 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFollowing up on my dad's letter to the Guardian, the BBC's Chris Buckler has a short report on the appalling situation in Agathonisi.
According to my parents, the situation is pretty terrible across the islands of the Dodecanese. MSF have supplied some tents in places but no sanitation and while some UNHCR people have arrived in the last couple of days, but it is not clear what they are likely to be able to do. Worse still, there are cases of people who've arrived exhausted after their crossing only to have all their few remaining possessions — phones, documents, and hard currency — stolen while they slept, leaving them with nothing at all.
Obviously everyone there is pitching in to help as they can, but there's only so much that an place with 180 inhabitants can do for more than that number of refugees...
According to my parents, the situation is pretty terrible across the islands of the Dodecanese. MSF have supplied some tents in places but no sanitation and while some UNHCR people have arrived in the last couple of days, but it is not clear what they are likely to be able to do. Worse still, there are cases of people who've arrived exhausted after their crossing only to have all their few remaining possessions — phones, documents, and hard currency — stolen while they slept, leaving them with nothing at all.
Obviously everyone there is pitching in to help as they can, but there's only so much that an place with 180 inhabitants can do for more than that number of refugees...
