In the past weeks, I have got a lot of news where were quite disturbing and distressing – as there are millions of people who are suffering.
Europe has been hit by a wave of refugees – one could say. One could also say that the situation in several countries has been so horribly bad for such a long time, that millions of people have lost their homes and had to flee. And now they are entering Europe after often very dangerous journeys and nearly all countries are overwhelmed with the sheer numbers. That’s how refugee homes, mobile camps, gymnasiums, town halls, old warehouses and similar places are crowded with people sleeping on camp beds. Governments are struggling to get the administration to work fast enough and get bureaucratic tasks done quickly.
Seeing the reports, reading their stories and getting to know what these people have been through, makes you feel horrible that this kind of things are possible in today’s time, in today’s world. There are families that started their way together, as a group, but have been torn apart on the way. Parents are searching their children, husbands are searching their wives. Others know already that they don’t need to search: their family members are dead.
They have walked hundreds, even thousands of miles. A lot of them have been in those horrible ships and boats trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Boats, too many of which have already sunk in the waters which means a certain death to thousands of people. Fathers have seen their daughters and sons drown, thrown overboard by the inhumane monsters that have taken horrendous sums of money to promise these people safe passage.
Facilitators, criminals exploit the last rest out of people who have already been torn apart by war and dictators in their country, by prosecution due to their religion or origin. In their hope of finding a peaceful, safe place to live, just somewhere, anywhere, they accept exploitation, beatings and finally the danger to die on the way, suffocated in the back of a truck on a European highway.
They climb over and under barbed wire fences to cross borders. They get onto trains without tickets. They try to illegally enter a tunnel to walk a distance of 50 kilometers under the sea. They are already illegal, they are already at the end of their strengths, they have already lost everything but their lives and, only sometimes, each other. How much worse can it get?
Oh it can! Unfortunately that has been proven as well: they reach a place where they are told to be, just to stay until the paper work is done, until they can maybe get asylum, a visa, the permission to work – and then there are people protesting in front of their temporary homes! There are those who put the houses on fire which they wanted to move in! There are those who walk through the streets, protesting against them just being there.
Seeing all of this, although from far away, makes me incredibly sad. Sad even that it has come this far! So many people’s lives have not only changed drastically, so many people’s lives have just been finished, ended! So many people suffering in a world where so many have so much more than enough!
And still there are those who write and shout insults. It is incredible to me!
At the end, however, there is still this hope, the light, a shine of positivity as well: there are others! There are people who help and do it differently! And about them, I will write tomorrow.
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Yes, it is all true. It has been happening for years, but suddenly became world news. Our media NGO in Malta was set up to give some help and support, alongside other more established NGOs and Government agencies in our small island country, front line to the problems.https://www.facebook.com/africanmediamalta?fref=ts