Now it’s 2020 and the current figures have gone up to 11,000 at the Moria refugee camp. Years later and the news in Moria is still heartbreaking. A fire raged through the camp on September 19th, has left children sleeping on the street with their families. More than 4,000 children, including over 400 unaccompanied children had been living in the camp at the time. Their previous camping arrangement with tents was not very good. This huge prison-like refugee camp holds an internal jail and is divided into sections. At Moria camp, you have to share many bathrooms with thousands of other refugees. Makeshift camps have been spreading outside the camp and rain and storms have caused people to die of hypothermia and illnesses. We are living in a world where a pandemic has spread and affected the whole world, but who decides what happens to the children within this refugee camp in Greece? Jumping rope with frayed wires is one of the few normalcies they have left, and now even that is threatened.
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