Tag Archives: Europe
It needs courage !
Poems of a migratory girl 1) It needs Courage It needs courage to build a school ! It needs courage to touch children’s hearts ! It needs courage to welcome homelessness ! It needs courage to stand with us in one line ! It needs courage to open an educational house ! It needs courage … Continue reading It needs courage ! → Continue reading
DEMONSTRATION
by Parwana Amiri In 2019, 74 000 refugees arrived in Greece, that is 50% more than last year. 59 700 on the islands and 14 900 through the land borders. The reception centers, on the islands, are now dangerously overcrowded with 36 400 on Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos living in spaces that could … Continue reading DEMONSTRATION → Continue reading
Enough is enough!
I am Parwana Amiri and at this moment where I’ m writing to you. I’ m sitting back against the wall located in the middle of nowhere, between factories that produce different gases that cause various breathing problems to children and elder people. Here is Ritsona, the refugee camp, where responsibility is absent, vulnerable s … Continue reading Enough is enough! → Continue reading
Letters from Refugees to the World No:6
Voice of Unaccompanied minors – Letters from Refugees to the World No:6 Evacuate us from [strict] closed camps! Normally, 24 million kilowatts potential energy exists in a person`s body. This amount of energy can supply the electricity of a small town for one week. But I repress, stifle, waste all that energy, because of psychological … Continue reading Letters from Refugees to the World No:6 → Continue reading
What is COVID-19 teaching us?
Corona is teaching spiritual and moral lessons that have long been forgotten. It is teaching equality, that all humans are equal regardless of their life style, culture, religion, wealth, skin color, and geographical location. Corona is teaching … … that … a border can simply be the door of your room, when you are not … Continue reading What is COVID-19 teaching us? → Continue reading
Ritsona Camp under COVID-19 pressure -“The chain has been broken!”
02/04/2020 What we were afraid of has happened. After giving birth in a Hospital in Athens, a women – that escaped from somewhere in Africa – and her newborn where soon released from the hospital and brought to Ritsona Camp. She was then tested positive for the Coronavirus. After being in touch with 63 persons … Continue reading Ritsona Camp under COVID-19 pressure -“The chain has been broken!” → Continue reading
Ritsona Camp under COVID-19 pressure – “Like a closed chain”
29/03/2020 For years, Ritsona Refugee Camp was ment for almost nine hundred refugees. Today, the camp provides accommodation facilities for more than three thousands refugees from the islands, most of them are vulnerable. I am Parwana Amiri, one of these new arrivals, who could find peace, dignity, primary education, health care, entertainment and all that … Continue reading Ritsona Camp under COVID-19 pressure – “Like a closed chain” → Continue reading
Pixi: “The Olive Tree and The Old Woman”
This story is written by Parwana Amiri, a young Afghan woman who has lived with her family in the Olive Grove from the Moria hotspot since September 2019. When Parwana noticed how unbearable the living conditions were, she supported the people with her language skills and started to publicize the stories they had experienced. Her … Continue reading Pixi: “The Olive Tree and The Old Woman” → Continue reading
Letter to the World from Moria (No. 13)
Author: A migratory girl I am the mother of two sick babies Every mother raises up her baby being proud of it from the first day. When she kisses her baby, her baby kisses her back, and this is the absolute happiness for her. When the child grows, she is watching how it plays with … Continue reading Letter to the World from Moria (No. 13) → Continue reading
Letter to the World from Moria (No. 11)
Author: A migratory girl Life of a Transgender I am in Moria Camp. Being a transgender means not to be of female or male sex, neither man nor woman – but of transgender sex. In a society like Afghanistan, being a transgender person is like being an extra-terrestrial, landing on earth from outer space. In … Continue reading Letter to the World from Moria (No. 11) → Continue reading