Dripping tents full of sadness

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For the 14 000 refugees in the largest refugee camp, it is painfully. Almost constantly can see them lying Macedonia. But a high iron fence and watching policemen ensure the country for the Syrians and Iraqis is unreachable. Yet new refugees still arrive every day. The camp that was built before 1500 and it can no longer cope.

Forty toilets and two water points are there. More facilities will not realize the Greek authorities because she believes that refugees should go further from the border to other camps.

The only place where newcomers can sleep, the muddy fields at the edges of the camp or the ballast bed of the railway to Skopje. Five days ago was, according to rescuers no tent yet. Now there on the pebbly strip of land with almost no opgooitentje.

Greek volunteers pick up trash with masks for the face. But they can not compete with the power waste. The stench of dirty diapers mixes with the breathtaking smoke from fires. From wet wood to plastic; everything is on fire just to be a little warm and slightly drier.

Homsi Alhapib stands out among those waiting in line for food. In his coat the Syrian hugging a pure white cat. It's all that's left of a family living in Idlib.,, My wife and five children are dead, 'said the Syrian film director who was before the war.,, My house is destroyed. I have on my cat after nothing. That's why I brought her. I'm here now seventeen days. I know that the border is closed, but what am I? I've heard about the ceasefire in Syria. If the war really is over, I want to go back. Even though everything will evoke sad memories home. '

Occasionally there is excitement in the camp. Groups of refugees clump together. The men are almost indistinguishable from one another in their long dark green raincoats. Gotten helping Greeks, like the thin nylon tents that many rainwater actually not able to. For many children there are jackets with Hello Kitty on it, and rubber boots to the little ones racing through the mud. Happy, because you can even play here. The men talk about the possibility of accessing at night through the mountains still Macedonia. Or can it? Nobody really knows it.

Or maybe back to Thessaloniki, Athens or even Turkey and from there construct a new escape route. A growing number of people choose. But whether it is the option that offers the greatest chance for a better future? Many refugees have smartphones with them and it is in this corner of the European Union's 3G coverage. But also a smartphone knows the answer to the big question not. More than food, drinking water and a shower after weeks of waiting, the need for information. The Greek government says distributing flyers stating that the Balkan route has become a chance. But Idomeni one has seen them. The 22nd,, there seems to fall a decision. Perhaps the border is open again. I wait, I think, 'an Iraqi man mumbles while staring at the no man's land behind the fence.

Student and entrepreneur Henry Cook and Ercan Kaya. But when the Dutch saw what is happening in Greece, they forgot that moment. As aid workers on their own account they try to help in the refugee camp of Idomeni.

For example, they do every morning by handing out hundreds of bananas to children for whom there is no breakfast. And then jump to where it is most needed.,, Yesterday there was a mother with an almost lifeless baby with me. I sprinted with child to the emergency room and then it is placed with the utmost urgency to the Red Cross doctor, 'says De Cook.

,, Yes, something like that coming. 'His friend nods. Ercan Kaya has its own motive to put a family and a printing company here on the second plan.,, Just because I am a father, I think I have the kids here to help. It should as soon as possible to find a solution for these people. '