Life in Moria camp

1) What's happening in the Moria camp?

2) what is the Moria camp?

3) Where is the Lesbos camp?

4) What are the children's problems who live in Moria camp?

5) What's the camp healthy service like?

6) How many children live in the Moria camp?

7) What conditions do children live in?

8) Where are they from?

9) How is the therapy organized? 

10) What do the drawing tell us? Who were they made from?

11)  What are the only moments of normalcy for Moria's children?

  

Life in Moria camp is a continue battle for survival. Everything alter in brawls, even for something as simple as a meal. The moria camp is a refugee camp for many asylum seekers. It's localized in Lesbos Island, in Greece. Many children who live there suffer of depression and most of then attempted suicide or serious self-harm. The sewage system is so strained that raw sewage has been known to reach the mattresses where children. In the camp live 9000 migrants, 3000 of then are children. The conditions in refugee camp are inhumane,  in fact people who live there stay into tents or metal containers, more share a single shower and other share a single toilet. They come from war-torn city like Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and they arrive in Moria camp by dinghies. People who work there have organized a therapy with children to 6 from 12 years old and their initiative includes a storytelling activity in wich children create a story with drawings. Children's drawins tell about war scenes or shipwrecks. For example one of then is made by a child who attempted suicide between February and June 2018, and it tells of plane dropping bombs on to homes and on to people, eyes that cry blood, stormy seas with lifeless body too, probably because he had seen it during the trip before arriving at the camp. However children in the Moria camp have moments of normalcy. They can play football in a small play area or watch cartoon on a large screen. Its the only place where they can be kids.

F:Balsamo 3H

In the Isle of Lesbos

In the Moria camp, that's in the Isle of Lesbos (In Greece), there is a horrible situation: the people live in overcrowded dirty tends or metal containers, surrounded by rubbish. The migrants come from some war disrupted countries in the middle east like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, passing through Turkey. The everyday life is transformed into a sort of daily battle for survival and a simple altercation can degenerate in fights or brawls. In addition, many people suffer from depression and the sewage system is so strained that the raw sewage reaches the places where children sleep. The drawings of the children are evidence of the trauma... They are full of lifeless bodies, planes dropping bombs, terrified faces; furthermore, between February and June of this year, 18 kids attempted to commit suicide. There are at least 3.000 minors (9000 asylum seekers in total) in this camp, but it was built and organized for only one-third of this number. Near the camp, there is a clinic of Médicins Sans Frontières, but the health service doesn't work so good because the wounded or the people who have a psychological damage refuse to go to it for shame or fear. It is during one phase of the therapy proposed by this clinic that the children draw the war scenes, the fleeing from their country and shipwrecks. The transfers of the asylum seekers to Athens have already begun but new migratory flows are expected for the winter and they'll bring the population of the camp up to 10.000.

A small playground, built by Salam Aldeen, is the only place where, for a few hours, the children can be real kids, and can live carefree moments of normalcy... without fights, violence, problems, rubbish... G.Licata 3H

In the Moria camp, a refugee camp situated in Lesbos, there is a tragic situation: people stay around the rubbish, they are spread everywhere. 

The children who live there are traumatized after having fled from conflict in their home countries. They are about 3000, they are from Siria, Iraq and they arrive in dinghies from Turkish towns. 

They attempted to hang themselves from a pole or suicide. So the healthy service calls it a giant open-air mental asylum with dire sanitary conditions. We can understand this situation looking at a drawing, made by a child who attempted suicide, where eyes weep blood and the children’s body is floating among the waves.

The only moments of normalcy for Moria’s children get come when they play in an area founded by a Team Humanity, when they play at a small football pitch and when they can watch cartoons.

G.Varvarotto 3H

“The Moria refugee camp”

The Moria refugee camp, in Lesbos, Greece, is located near the capital town of Mytilene. It is home to 9.000 asylum seekers living in desperate sanitary conditions. Migrants live in groups up to 30 people, crammed into tents or metal containers and a lot of children and adolescent have attempted suicide or serious self-harm, since they came to this place. Approximately 3.000 minors live in the Moria camp, place of terrible healthy conditions with a lot of rubbish, scattered everywhere, that makes the air unbreathable and causes many health problems to people who live there. Migrants come from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, but the refusal on the part of European countries to take in asylum seekers arriving in Greece, makes people imprisoned on the island, with no way out.

Moreover, physicians and psychologists say that minors are targeted in the sexual violence and suffer from depression. MSF organized a therapy session with children aged between 6 and 12, who had attempted suicide or were suffering from depression or self-harming. One phase of the therapy involved a storytelling activity in which kids tried to create a story with drawings and words: the children began drawing war scenes or shipwrecks. One of these drawings tell of trauma: stormy seas dotted with terrified faces and lifeless bodies of children floating among the waves. The only moments of normalcy Moria’s children get come to a small play area 200 m from the camp, built by Salam Aldeen, where they can play with inflatable castles or watch a cartoon on a large screen. It is the only place where they can be just kids, without bombs, violence or rapes.

                                                                                                                  Irene Treccarichi, III H

1) What's happening in the Moria camp?

2)What is the Moria camp?

3)Where is the Lesbos camp?

4)What are the children's problems who live in the Moria camp?

5)What's the camp healthy service like?

6)How many children live in the Moria Camp?

7)What conditions do children live in?

8) Where are they from?

9)What di their drawing tell us? Who were they made from?

10)What are the only moments of normalcy foto Moira's children?

11)How is therapy organised?

The article by L.Tondo taken from The Guardian, 3rd October 2018, talks about Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece. 

9.000 asylum seekers live there, but it's a centre designed to keep one third of that number; so their living conditions are really bad. Furthermore migrants who arrive in Moria, coming from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are already traumatized and the conditions in the camp have increased their traum. In fact, they live in groups of 30 people, crammed into tents or metal containers, and there is rubbish scattered everywhere.

There live also 3.000 children, who have serious psychological problems; in fact, most of them attempt suicide and they hurt themselves. Those minors are also targeted in the sexual violence. 

The trauma for them is so strong, so it's not easy for the parents living in Moria to come to terms with the psychological damage of their children, and in a short time they begin to suffer the same depression as their children.

So, the MSF, a particular clinic that's located just outside Moria, organised a therapy session to help those children who have attempted suicide or had depression problems. One phase of the therapy involved a storytelling activity in wich kids tried to create a story with drawings and words. So, their drawings talk about war, shipwrecks and bloody scenes.

The only moments of normalcy Moria's children get come at a small play area 200m from the Camp: here they can feel at ease with the world and not a abandon themselves. M.Salomome 3H

“We have found hell”: trauma runs deep for  children at dire Lesbos camp

In the Moria camp there are more than 9,000 people who came from war-torn countries. They came there searching for help but they only find violence and other problems.

Moria camp is in Lesbos, Greece, and it’s like a prison for all the asylum seekers, forced to live in a place that was designed to hold the third of the number of the actually people there.

The biggest problem of the camp is the mental health condition of all the children there. Most of them suffer from depression, self harming and psychological problems which lead them to suicide.
Approximately 3,000 minors live in the Moria Camp and they come from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. They arrive in dinghies from Turkish towns of Ayvalik or Canakkale.

The drawings made by Sirian and Afghan children show us war scenes, shipwrecks and eyes that dripped blood. They are the proof of all the trauma and terrifying things that those children have passed during their lives.

The only moments of normalcy for Moria’s children are at the small play area situated 200m from the camp. There are some inflatable castles and a small football pitch where kids can play and have fun, at least for a few hours.

MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) organised a therapy session for a dozen of children who attempted suicide or were suffering from depression or self-harming. The therapy was divided into  more phases, one of them consisted in a storytelling activity in which kids tried to create a story with no words, only drawing.

Maria Dragomir 3H

Moria refugee camp.

Moria's camp is a refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, where live 9000 asylum seekers, of which one third are minors.

Most of them come from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Those who arrive in Moria are traumatised and the situation worsens their trauma.

Life in Moria is a daily battle for survival, physicians and psychologists say that minors are also targeted in the sexual violence.

To defend herself, Fatima, sleeps with a knife under her pillow, but rape isn't the only threat this Iraqi girl faces: the other is depression.

The drawing in the photo tells of trauma, the pencil scrawls were drawn by children who are part of a growing phenomenon in this camp.

The parents in Moria are afraid that their children have suffered from psychological damage, in fact so many children attempt suicide and the MSF organised a therapy session with these kids who had attempted suicide

The only moment of normalcy for Moria's children is at a small 

play area 200m from the camp; thanks to a private donation they have  inflatable castles and a small football pitch.

E. Di Carlo 3H

The Moria Camp in Lesbos

Every day, in the Moria camp, approximately 9,000 migrants, coming from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, struggle for survival, beacuse of the violent and unsanitary conditions which persist in the refugee camp, located in Lesbos, Greece. Here it is "home" for these people, although the Medicines Sans Frontieres calls it a giant open-air "mental asylum", because of the overcrowding and desperate sanitary conditions. One third of the migrants living in the camp are children, who are afflicted by trauma due to abuse and violence. In the camp, a shower is shared by 84 people and a toilet by 72 people while they sleep in groups of up to 30 people into tents or metal containers. The children live in terrible conditions: often targeted in the sexual violence, of which one girl, for self-defence sleeps  with a knife under the pillow; sometimes they stop speaking, inflict wounds on themselves or even they attempt suicide. In the drawing, a minor, who attempted suicide, tells of trauma: in a stormy seas there are lifeless bodies of children floating among the waves and planes dropping bombs, down on to homes and on to people. MSF organised a therapy for children aged between 6 and 12 years old who are suffering from depression or self-harming: a phase of it involved a storytelling activity in which kids tried to craste a story with drawings and words. Luckily in their life there is a normalicy moment: thanks to Salam Aldeen, who built a small play area 200m from the camp, children can play in inflatable castles and in a small football pitch. At 4pm, they can also watch cartoon on a large screen.

Sara Renda 3H L.S.B.Croce Palermo