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Refugees in Athens { 11 images } Created 23 May 2012

Atene - Mary Pini a professional journalist six days a week at 2:30 PM organizes to feed thousand of people in the central district of Athens called Omonia. Collaborating with Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Athens, the Anglican Church and the Nigerian community, she started in 2009 feeding immigrants, homeless and drug addicts. Now more and more Greeks are going to eat there due to the financial crisis.
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  • An Afghan woman waiting in the line with her children. Immigrants are served after 2:30 went the service reserved for Greek only finishes.
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  • An Afghan immigrant cover his face with some documents from the ONG 'Medecins du Monde' that gives medicines and free medical assistance to people in need
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  • A lot of small children are in the lines to wait the food.
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  • The Nigerian community is part of the Mary Pini's organization. A priest watching the line before the distribution of food.
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  • An immigrant fron Iran show his injuries after he stepped on a mine in his country. He the decided to move to Greece
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  • Greek and Nigerian volunteers distributing bread
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  • Women and children follows a separated line. Crowd and tension caused by the fear of not find some food left can get the situation tense and violent
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  • An immigrant show some war wounds
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  • Mary Pini (right) with a volunteer control the line before starting to serve food. She does this six times a week since 2009
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  • Afghan woman and children arrived late to the food distribution and are hoping to find some food left. Every day there is no enough food to feed all the people that comes at Mary Pini's place
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  • The line is delimited with wood pieces to try to control the confusion of hundreds of hungry people afraid to lost their only chance to eat for the day
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