Lesbos - KaraTepe

  1. Day at camp

Anyone who speaks from afar "everything is better already", I'm sorry, I can't agree with that in any way.
I understand what the representatives of the big, paid NGOs mean:
There are now some "showers", if you can call them that:
Small plastic houses with cold (!) water.
Sewage stands in front of them in deeply dug holes.
When I asked what is better now: "you have to start from the way it was".

My thoughts on this:

We live in a civilised country. For me, and I think for most people in Austria, better means that one can assume that it at least halfway meets human rights standards by human standards.

It is irritating when people say it like that, because NOTHING has improved in this sense, on the contrary.

These "showers" where no one can change, if you take your clothes in they get wet and as mentioned above, the water is cold!

The sewage runs into a hole that the residents dig themselves.
It stays there, it hardly drains away. Any doctor can confirm that this is a hotbed of bacteria.

People have dug deep gullies everywhere between the tents out of great fear of the next rain.
It is hardly possible to move normally between them.
The cords at the top, the gutters at the bottom, the tents so close together that there is no freedom of movement.

Today Helga and I first went to the #HomeForAll kitchen.
There, as every day, 100s of meals were cooked, packed and then distributed to the people in need. The work that Home for All does here is more than impressive! Many thanks to Katarina, Nikos and their team.

We went shopping for #HomeForAll, lots of spices, tomato sauce, kitchen rolls, salt, everything in huge quantities.

My dear friend Mohammad from Afghanistan, who was already with us every day last time and translated people's concerns and needs for us, is currently making an accurate list of each tent, family members, age, etc.
Tomorrow it will be ready.

We will then be able to prepare the mother and baby care packages in addition to the food from Home for All and start distributing them.
The people are in unbelievable need!

No one who has even a spark of decency, of humanity in him must accept this in silence!

Even though some people who are economically involved or who promise themselves political advantages assure us that things are better now in Kathy Pe, Helga and I can in no way confirm this after our first day in Camp K has Pepe. On the contrary:
The pictures we see here shock us to the core, we can hardly believe that people are treated in this way here in Europe.
And again and again we repeat our demand to evacuate the camp on Lesbos/Karatepe immediately. If we do not do this, we will have dead people to mourn in the winter. In many conversations we try to make it clear to the people and the political leaders that this must not happen under any circumstances. We are all saddled with a debt that can never be repaid.

Helga Longin and I will be spending the next few weeks here on Lesvos and we urge you to continue to support our work here, helping directly to the people.

Doro Blancke
AT93 3842 0000 0002 7516
Subject: Lesbos

or:
Helga Longin
Our Bruck helps
AT30 2021 6216 9756 3700
Subject: Lesbos

Furthermore, we ask you from the bottom of our hearts not to tire of writing to the political leaders, to hold talks with them about the urgent need to change this situation as quickly as possible. We demand that the Austrian federal government accept people fleeing from the Karatepe/Lesbos camp.

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