Lesbos - KaraTepe - Moria2 - Help on the spot

Last Friday I landed back in Lesvos after a 3 day break. It was wonderful at home, my daughter's birthday, meeting my wonderful children, enjoying music by Mulham and Estas Tonne, working at Forum Stadtpark. Every moment in itself a source of strength. Thank you!

You desperately need them when you are here on the ground and face a reality that is actually inconceivable. A reality that shows the ugliest face of the political games. Where people are "starved" to be forced to another place. People without showers for weeks, with one meal a day delivered frozen and only thawed with daytime temperatures but never warmed. Where 4000 children and about 1200 people with disabilities live without having the minimum of their basic needs met.

A reality in which many NGOs enrich themselves on the misery of the people, in which it seems normal for police officers to attack families with tear gas, in which human rights violations seem to be the order of the day, because the chaos in this cruel game is so great that all this becomes normality. Some EU citizens are outraged or gloat, depending on their human condition, some go to the scene to help, politicians mercilessly use the crammed crowd to continue spreading their visionless, nationalist ideas and stoking the fear of "the foreigners" taking over our continent.

We, who are here for "help on the ground", try to remain "unagitated" next to all this knowledge, in order to be able to meet the people who so urgently need acute help in some way.

And many things succeed.

Thanks to you who provide great financial support. Heartfelt thanks! In our case, also thanks to a local NGO "Home for All", whose initiators have been helping people directly every day for six years. Cooking between 500 and 1500 meals has become part of everyday life for Nikos and Katharina, the daily encounter with people on the run is just as normal as finding a place to stay for people with asylum who are thrown out onto the streets in Greece with no money. I am incredibly grateful to both of them for taking us into their community, showing us the hotspots in the Jungles where people still live hidden under the most adverse circumstances, and showing us how to meet people in need here without getting into trouble with the authorities.

This way, we go out on the streets with them every day and can efficiently and very humanely practice the much praised and also mocked #HilfeVorOrt.

This means providing hot food for all those who, for whatever reason, are still "living" in the "jungles" around the burnt-down camp. Giving out baby food, pampers, bottles, popo cream, wet wipes, water, fruit, shoes, jackets, toys for the children, and much more.

For this we drive the streets with a car, in the meantime I have found a place where people, extremely many families are already waiting for us. When we arrive, they greet us with a smile as if we were celebrating a festival together, stand quietly in the queue (how I detest that) and thank us profusely for 5 pieces of Pampers.

But the moment you are confronted with people who already know us and already know that they don't have to thank you 1000 times for a sh... apple, for a baby bottle, what ever, but they smile warmly at you and say "cu soon my sister", then I know that I am exactly where I want and need to be, that your support is best placed and that even in the greatest misery humanity and love bring light.

I demand immediate assistance from our Federal Chancellor in evacuating the camp! Together with many other Austrians who are speaking out against this madness in Europe in countless petitions, emails, meetings, vigils and other activities. Who in no way for one day longer, who in their humanity are aware that what is happening here, what is being done to people here, must not give any room to play political power, to mercilessly lead society step by step to brutalisation and to trample our own dignity underfoot. Didn't we all, and especially the federal government, say #NeverMoreAgain?

With these thoughts I now go to my daily shopping, then to Home for All to pack the already cooked food together with others and then to confront myself again with all the pain, the suffering that is produced here every day and ignorantly acknowledged by highly paid, irresponsible politicians.

In the time I have been here, we have already contributed over 10,000 Euros to the daily food (Home for All), ordered 5,000 masks to distribute, given out 1,000 Pampers, left a voucher at the butcher's so that Home for All can pick up goods there, bought and distributed shoes for 1700€. Rain ponchos, urgently needed, ordered. Today "baby day". Pampers, milk powder, bottles,

David Pichler/professional photographer and dear friend from Graz, himself here on location, gave me a day of photo work. I am very grateful to him, because it is very important to me that you all see what happens with your money, that it ends up directly with the people, what #HilfeVorOrt means for us, what basic needs are missing here. Thank you very much, dear David. For all those who want to continue supporting, I'm flying home on Sunday for 3 weeks and will then come back here.

Doro Blancke AT93 3842 0000 0002 7516 Subject: Lesbos

As always, I emphasise that this must not remain a permanent state of affairs. Together with many other people and NGOs, I call on the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Government, as well as all other EU member states, to put an end to this cruel political game as soon as possible and to evacuate people from here, to take them into our country. #Courage #144Life . Let's not give up, the courage and the power of love can change the situation, our courage, our power!

Many thanks to all of you, in solidarity and love,

Doro

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