treacherous crossings
© UNHCR/ K. McKinsey 2014
© UNHCR/ A. D’Amato 2014
Doa found herself in the water with some 100 survivors. She grabbed an inflatable ring and looked around for her fiancé. She realized that he must have gone down with the boat. For three days, the survivors floated in the Mediterranean without food or drinking water and gradually they started to die.
People began to ask Doa to take care of their children. A man with his one- year-old granddaughter handed over the child. “Ten a mother came with an 18-month-old baby girl and a six-year-
old boy and asked me to take care of the baby and I kept it too. I watched the grandfather and the mother and her son die.”
Doa said the goal of saving the two babies increased her determination to survive. She was rescued by a Liberian- flagged vessel: “Te one-year-old baby died just as we were about to be picked up” and taken to Crete island. Te other child rallied and recovered.
John Psaropoulos in Athens, Greece contributed to this story.
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