Filming began for the short interviews with the projects and first up are the fabulous Tent Team. These guys work hard every single day constructing tents, shelters and sun shade areas for refugees to find respite under and sleep with their families in the huge family tents. The family tents in camp can often crowd in a massive 12 to 16 person family. I’ve even seen a family of 8 squeeze into a tent that would just about comfortably hold two people wanting a little bit of space tent. So the work the Tent Team do, is very valuable work for the sanity and safety of people needing aid.

I also got to rejoin the fabulous crew at the Hummus Rights Project as well. To catch up with how they are doing and to record their two minute interview. Check out their page on the Idomeni Volunteers website that has all their link and their video too.

After that we went into camp to try to catch up with the Tent Team to record them setting up the tents for their videos but they are so efficient and now expected in camp that refugees line up and get the shelters set up themselves. Creating communal sun shelter spots between a group of tents, these areas quite often have a home made fire / cooking area set up. This is also something that is needed, large cooking pots so that families can get together and feed themselves, instead of relying purely on the food given as hands outs.

Projects that deliver food are desperately needed and will never stop being needed, but the act of being able to take care of ones own family, the bonding that happens when cooking and nourishing your own family cannot be downplayed.

I also got to meet up and say goodbye to my friend Abdulazez and get the links to his portfolios and also contact details. I find myself wondering how he’s doing now that I’m back in the UK. I’ll share more details about our interactions and story together in another post. I’m just glad I got to say goodbye to him, properly face to face.

Also lastly, I wanted to point out in the last photo of the gallery below is a tent that is physically under the train on the train tracks, it looks to be a plain photo and what’s so great about it .. what is a shock to see, is that a person does live in that tent and they feel safer hidden right under the carriage of the train. The ground around the train tracks is pure rock and stone, not in any way shape or form a comfortable spot. Yet they pitched their tent there. My heart was squeezed in pain seeing a mother walking her child back to their tent, their current home. But seeing that tent under the train .. I have no further words for you.