Books to go: bringing literature to refugees stuck in Greece

Artdaily,
21 August 2017, Greece

The brightly coloured minivan that pulls into Athens' food market, drawing a group of refugees around it, is not carrying something edible. The contents -- hundreds of books -- are there to satisfy a different sort of hunger. For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past two years after European states shut their borders in rapid succession, survival is no longer an issue. Instead, boredom and creeping despair about their future are their new enemies as they wait for months, even years, for their applications to relocate elsewhere in Europe to be processed. Now, at least two separate initiatives have emerged to help refugees fill the long hours of their day. 

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