There are mainly refugees from Africa, who sit on the Greek island of Samos. Bad food, wet tents, hardly any medicine you complain of inhumane conditions and to protest in their own way.
dances, singing and African drums in front of the offices of the port police in Samos-city, – it is a colorful, peaceful Protest. A few hundred refugees, especially Africans, have come in just a few meters from their tent camp down to the water. “We can” is their message after long, heavy rains. Many wear only thin clothes and flip-flops.
“We are living in truly inhumane conditions, this can’t go on. We hear that it is improving on Lesvos slowly, but not here,” says a refugee. You’d be in extremely bad food, the drenched tents for several thousand people – “for us, it’s really very, very bad.”
The refugees in Samos are housed in tents.
no time, No medical
a Few hundred refugees, especially families, have been brought from Samos to the mainland. But again boats from Turkey, come up with new migrants. As a mother from the Congo with their two sons. Since the beginning of December, it is on Samos, in urgent need of medicine and a doctor for one of the sons: “When it rains here heavily, we can’t sleep. We are afraid that the Wind will sweep away us the tent. And then we all sleep in the center in a bed.” Medical help not have given it to you yet, just briefly, you’ve seen a doctor. Also in the clinic in the village you have not had time and no medication for you. “You only gave me something to Wear for my son – I should come the next day again.”
4000 to 5000 refugees living in the town of Samos – about the same size, the number of Locals. To see the times frustrated, at times indifferent, if Africans in flip-flops, with your 90 euros monthly pocket money go shopping.
Maria, a teacher, has a lot of sympathy for the protesters at the port: “should be here to protest on a daily basis – because, as you have to live, is really inhuman. You should urgently be places where you can live. And there are enough of them on earth. Places that are not crowded, and where there is work for you – but the organized one.”
