Chris and I spent the day with Osman Mohammed (in above picture), Abdula Joseph, Osman Ali Adam, Abdifatah Rashiid, Kamil Ahmed, Ali Hussen and Dayib Adulgadir. Refugees originally from Somalia. Their journey to Athens took 2 years; working and migrating through Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Turkey before seeking asylum in the EU. Since Greece was their country of entry their chances of being able to live anywhere else in Europe is slim. Chris asked Dayib (who learnt English washing cars and spoke with great proficiency) what he would do with unlimited financial resources, his only answer was “to not be here” in Greece where the culture in general displayed an immense hostility towards them, especially the police.

It was quite an amazing juxtaposition for me to work with these courageous men in the cradle of western civilization and to then hear news of unregulated free market capitalism debauchery and a $700,000,000,000 corporate bailout.