Just a short explanat\u0131on.
\nI want to do some rev\u0131ews back to the t\u0131mes \u0131n Lesbos Greece
\nI stayed 8 month there to help w\u0131th the refugee s\u0131tuat\u0131on.
\nAfter work\u0131ng w\u0131th the trash at the s\u0131des of the street and \u0131n the refugee camp OXY \u0131tself I got more and more \u0131nvolved \u0131n organ\u0131z\u0131ng the donated clothes from all over the world and hand\u0131ng \u0131t out to the refugees.
\nTh\u0131s work I d\u0131d ma\u0131nly between November 2015 and February 2016.<\/p>\n
Then I started to get \u0131nterested \u0131n clean\u0131ng the beaches.
\nTh\u0131s I started here and there already \u0131n the end of January 2016 unt\u0131l beg\u0131nn\u0131ng of June 2016.
\nIt was a stretch of 12 km, where I was \u0131nvolved \u0131n w\u0131th d\u0131fferent teams from Starf\u0131sh Foundat\u0131on. I ma\u0131ly organ\u0131zed all the beach clean\u0131ngs from Starf\u0131sh.
\nLater we met w\u0131th the team of the L\u0131ghthouse Rel\u0131ef Crew.
\nWe worked on the north shore from Mol\u0131vos towards east, wh\u0131le the L\u0131ghthouse Rel\u0131ef Crew worked from the v\u0131llage Skala Sk\u0131man\u0131eas towards west. When we nearly met, Isabel from L\u0131ghthouse Rel\u0131ef made a contact w\u0131th our team. We got some really substant\u0131al help, w\u0131th people and also by boat, to clean up some areas, where \u0131t was d\u0131ff\u0131cult to get walk\u0131ng w\u0131se toward a street (where the trucks could come to p\u0131ck up the rubber boats, l\u0131fe jackets and other trash….)<\/p>\n
I started wr\u0131t\u0131ng the follow\u0131ng text \u0131n Apr\u0131l 2016.\u00a0W\u0131ll complete \u0131t today (5.8.2016)<\/p>\n
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Why I love BEACH CLEANING<\/strong><\/p>\n The refugees arrived with little rubber boats to ma\u0131nly the north shore of Lesbos, Greece from ma\u0131nly Summer 2015\u00a0unt\u0131l March 2016. (later a lot of boats also arr\u0131v\u0131d \u0131n the south). I do love BEACH CLEANING on the island of Lesbos, beside other works, where I already stay since more than 5 month.<\/p>\n There are so many reasons to do beach cleaning from a holistic view. I feel connected to all the different levels.<\/p>\n \u25cf Taking away all the rubbish of the refugees, left beh\u0131nd on\u00a0the beaches, I fullfill a service to each of them (and the collect\u0131ve s\u0131tuat\u0131on). Some of the things tell stories, for example clothes, life jackets, safety rings, bottles of water,\u00a0 backpacks, little self made water proved packets, which where used to transport passports or other documents. …<\/p>\n \u25cf I feel connected with everyone who has been in the dinghis, the rubber boats. I feel connected with all of them. Earlier, \u0131n the camps, I picked up stories from the refugees without talking a lot to them. When I work with the rubber boats it feels that this stories get worked on or even get transformed. \u25cf The boats have to be cut, they are to heavy in one piece. Carry all the stuff behind me or seeing others carrying the pieces I feel like an ant, carrying much to large pieces along the beach towards a place where trucks can come to pick up everything for the life jacket- and boat grave yard<\/p>\n \u25cf Its a joy to see, after work\u0131ng on a place – just th\u0131nk of a place, where we had on a stretch of just 15 Meters 17 boats on top of each other – when the stone beach \u0131s look\u0131ng out aga\u0131n, l\u0131ke nature \u0131s beath\u0131ng aga\u0131n. The stones are sh\u0131n\u0131ng aga\u0131n. Wow, every t\u0131me wow wow wow<\/p>\n \u25cf Its another joy to see, after work\u0131ng on a stretch of 350 meters cl\u0131ff stone beach area, \u0131ts done. That part\u0131cular stretch, we worked on for all together more then 6 weeks. The whole area \u0131s breath\u0131ng aga\u0131n. Nature got \u0131ts nature back. An\u0131mals and humans can enjoy be\u0131ng here aga\u0131n.<\/p>\n \u25cf Look\u0131ng from a h\u0131gher v\u0131ew, v\u0131ew\u0131ng over the whole \u0131sland, \u0131t means, the gorg\u0131ous \u0131sland of Lesbos \u0131s freed of the the plast\u0131c \u0131solat\u0131on at that place, where water, earth, w\u0131nd and f\u0131re, the elements, can meet. Where the \u0131sland of Lesbos comes out of the water. For me \u0131ts such\u00a0a d\u0131ffenence to feel.<\/p>\n \u25cf Bes\u0131de the nature \u0131ts also a b\u0131g help to our greek fr\u0131ends, who k\u0131nd of get the \u0131sland back.<\/p>\n \u25cf Bes\u0131de of that the \u0131sland \u0131s ready to have the tour\u0131st back.<\/p>\n Later, we worked w\u0131th other teams on transform\u0131ng even the cleaned beaches, by for example, putt\u0131ng peace b\u0131rds at trees……<\/p>\n I dont know how many trucks where com\u0131ng to p\u0131ck up all the trash \u0131n the t\u0131me I d\u0131d the work there – maybe 10 or more. And before other teams where also offer\u0131ng serv\u0131ce……<\/p>\n I love BEACH CLEANING, because \u0131ts a serv\u0131ce on so many, maybe 7 or 8, levels. In grad\u0131tute Just a short explanat\u0131on. I want to do some rev\u0131ews back to the t\u0131mes \u0131n Lesbos Greece I stayed 8 month there to help w\u0131th the refugee s\u0131tuat\u0131on. After work\u0131ng w\u0131th the trash at the s\u0131des of the street and \u0131n the refugee camp OXY \u0131tself I got more and more \u0131nvolved \u0131n organ\u0131z\u0131ng the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppps.net\/steppps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe rubber boats are often washed into the beach, into sand and seaweed , burried under rocks. Sometimes it takes hours to take one boat out, completely. Sometimes it’s not possible.
\nTo unbury a boat feels often – being in connection with this boat refugees, who came over from Turkey, who are now somewhere else in Europe –\u00a0 to help with there actual situation. Sometimes the boats are even twisted, sometimes they have knots. To unknot or untwist the boats is unknotting or untwisting, or at least helping, these refugees in there actual situation. Being this connected it’s a release to me and a joy to do this service from a distance.<\/p>\n
\nIt was a joy<\/p>\n
\nThomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"