Sunday, April 3, 2016


We are not allowed to take any photos inside of Moria. These are images borrowed from Google.


These are the gates we were tasked with guarding throughout the night. No one comes in or out without the proper colored wrist band. This is at the family unit, which is a gated and secured area in the center of the compound where the young families, elderly and single women are placed. There are 3 separate areas in the family unit. Each section is set up to contain about 250 people but because the camp is so crowded, each section is housing about 500. Outside the family units there are approximately another 1500 refugees.


This is one of the boats that has been confiscated by the authorities. You can see that everything has been removed from the boat to allow the smugglers the ability to stuff as many refugees in as possible, no concerns for their safety - only the money they can make on the transport. 


The refugees spend much of their day waiting in line. We watched as they began lining up for breakfast at 7am, breakfast is served at 8:45. The line is several hundred deep by the time the food arrives. Once breakfast is done they wait in line for lunch, for tea, for clothes...lots of waiting.

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