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Lesbos 2016 - Migrants emergency

From Turkey, the first step toward freedom was Lesbos, Greece

19/03/2016


In collaboration with Rainbow-for-Africa, a volunteer association of doctors and nurses, we took a mobile clinic to Lesbos, where it operated for some months in the port of Methylene for the first aid, especially to infants, children and pregnant women.



Our experience is put at the service of solidarity

In January 2016, the flow of hopless people fleeing war, bombings and persecution, who tried to get to Europe in search of a better life, and who previously left from Libya onboard ramshackled boats to flee the raging civil war, this massive flow of people took a more eastern course, from the coasts of Turkey to the Greek islands close by, mainly to Lesbos.

Arriving in Mitilini, Lesbos
Arriving in Mitilini, Lesbos
After driving nearly 2000 km we get to Mitilini
Lesbos, port of Mitilini
Unloading the clinic
Unloading the clinic in Mitilini
Unloading the clinic in Mitilini
Remnants of the landings
Remnants of the landings
Aghast, Roberto finds out that the life jackets sold by the boat drivers would never float!
Lesbos, lifejackets discarded at landing
Refugees rescued and taken to port
Refugees rescued and taken to port
Refugees rescued and taken to port
Refugees rescued and taken to the port
Boats abandoned on the northern shore of the island
Lesbos - Lighthouse on the northern coast
Lesbos, the port of Molyvos
The clinic set up in the port of Mitilini
The clinic set up in the port of Mitilini
Port of Mitilini - Refugees get to safe harbour
A R4A doctor welcomes a newborn baby
A R4A doctor holds a newborn baby
A R4A doctor holds a newly arrived baby
A newborn baby is taken to the clinic to be checked
R4A doctors ckeck a baby just arrived
R4A doctors check the conditions of a newly arrived child
R4A doctors check the conditions of a newly arrived child
R4A doctors check the conditions of a newly arrived child
R4A doctors check the conditions of a newly arrived child
Lesbos - Inside the clinic
Volunteers inside the clinic
Lesbos - Housekeeping
Port of Mitilini - Migrants about to be bused to a refugee camp
Port of Mitilini - Refugees
Port of Mitilini - Refugee
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