How to Build an EMT – What we learned on Lesbos
Published on 18. January 2021
from CADUS-PR
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Shortly before Christmas, our mission in Camp Kara Tepe on Lesbos officially came to an end. Corinna and Sebastian take the opportunity to give a résumé at rc3. They report on what we have learned in the last two months as the Emergency Medical Team on Lesbos.
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Arrived in Kobanê
The odds were against us! “If you want to go to Rojava” so they told us “you can only cross the border from Iraq or illegaly”. One day of waiting in Suruç and countless times of presenting our passports, however finally succeeded in us walking over the turkish-syrian border legally, right on time as the sun went down.
About failure
At some point it seems, it had to hit us as well. For quite a time now representatives of other aid organisations active in North Syria kept asking us how we managed to get over the border of Turkey and Syria so easily.
Support at Slovenian-Croatian border
For the time being, state institutions, as well as the Slovenian Red Cross disallowed any support of the refugees arriving at the border. At this moment we, as CADUS, mainly try to concentrate on our work in the regions of North Syria. Nevertheless, as two weeks ago we were asked to support structures at the …
