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Refugee camps on Greece’s Aegean islands are ”bursting at the canada goose outlet in usa seams”, a British aid organisation haswarned.

Since the Balkan route from Greece to northern Europe was shut down in March after the arrival of a million migrants and refugees, around 57,000 of them have canada goose outlet nyc been left stranded in Greece.

They are living in limbo, accommodated in tents and buildings in former Olympic sites, abandoned military airfields and other bleak locations around the country.

Living conditions are rough, food is often inadequate and thousands of children, many of them Syrians who fled canada goose outlet uk the war, are missing out on their schooling.

Of the 57,000 stuck in Greece, around 10,300 are living in camps on a string of islands close to the coast https://www.amigosdecontreras.es of Turkey where they arrived in recent months after paying smugglers to ferry them across the sea.

The facilities on the islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos are now ”bursting at the seams” and dangerously overcrowded, according to Save cheap canada goose the Children.

Among the 10,000 held on the islands in closed camps, around 3,800 are children. They face ”demoralising and unsafe conditions,” according to the British charity.

Under a deal struck goose outlet canada between the EU and Ankara, people who arrived on the islands after March 20 are meant canada goose outlet toronto factory to be sent back to Turkey, but so far less than 500 have been expelled, and they were people who chose not to lodge asylum applications.

As the Greeks struggle to contain the situation, the number of refugees and migrants arriving from Turkey is picking up. The numbers are nowhere near as large as they once were up to 4,000 arrived on the Aegean islands each cheap canada goose day uk canada goose outlet at the height of the crisis but they are still putting the facilities under strain.

While 560 refugees arrived on the islands in the first two weeks canada goose outlet of July, canada goose uk black friday in the first two weeks of August that number jumped to nearly 1,400.

”We’re nearly back at square one. As the number of arrivals canada goose outlet parka creeps up again, we’re starting to see scenes reminiscent of last summer. Except this time, most asylum seekers are unable to continue their journeys, and are trapped on the islands, in overcrowded facilities, and under the blazing sun,” Canada Goose Parka said Katie Dimmer, Save the Children’s director of operations in Greece.

Under a grand canada goose jacket outlet EU plan announced earlier this year, tens of thousands of genuine refugees are supposed to be given asylum and resettled in other European countries.

But very little progress Canada Goose sale has canada goose canada goose factory sale outlet sale been made and refugees are despairing as they wait months to find out whether their asylum requests will be granted.

”Processing of asylum claims is canada goose outlet uk sale moving at a snail’s pace and most people are not allowed to leave the islands until cheap Canada Goose their claim has been reviewed,” said the charity.

Anger and frustration among migrants and refugees is also boiling over in France. A fight which broke out in a migrant camp near Dunkirk on canada goose uk shop Monday night left two men with gunshot wounds.

The confrontation canada goose outlet online took place canada goose in the Grand Synthe migrant camp, which is on the road between Dunkirk and Calais. It houses about 800 migrants, most of them from the Middle East and North Africa.