REFUGEE CRISIS | Lesbos lifejackets: Message to the EU
1,615 views · Published 29 February 2016 · 1:41 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders · 2016 · News & Politics
In late summer, the beaches of Lesvos were covered in thousands of lifejackets discarded when those fleeing accross the Aegean Sea made it safely to shore. Now, they, along with new ones desposited almost every day, are collected in a rubbish dump near Molyvos in the north of the island, as Lesbos does not have the facilities to recycle or dispose of them. Whilst the rubbish dump serves as a powerful reminder of the more than one million men, women and children who were forced to risk their lives at sea in 2015 and the 70,000 plus who have risked it so far in 2016, it does not include the jackets of those who didn't make it. In 2015 alone 3,771 people drowned trying to reach Europe, we cannot let that happen again. We need #SAFEPASSAGE and we need it now. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/15M9M8v Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/HvzD/
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