NPR | 09.03.2018
Joanna Kakissis
Rasha al-Ahmed imagined Europe would be a clean, generous place — not a makeshift tent in an olive grove where the mud is mixed with human waste and rotting food.
„A safe life with a house and enough food,“ she said, shuddering as she wiped fetid mud from her 1-year-old daughter’s cheeks. „That’s what I hoped for when I crossed the sea from Turkey to Greece.“
Ahmed is 25, tall and no-nonsense, with three young children and a wise-cracking husband, Waleed, who worked as an ironsmith and roofer in Deir Ezzor, the city in eastern Syria where they’re from.