Mother's day with no joy for Eritreans refugee moms

Asylum seekers moms with babies journey to the North of EU. Looking for a new home.
These asylum seekers survived the Sea and now are forced to survive living in the streets of Italy. Mother's day is no happy day for the moms on the journey seeking asylum with no rights in EU because of Dublin Regulation.

mothers day in the streets of Italy

Today, like every day for months, at Milan train station you can witness regular flow of Eritrean asylum seekers wondering around. Young, many underage. Mom and babies. Hundred and more of them. Sick, hungry, tired, scared. At the mercy of Eritrean vultures and other national that are knows for human trafficking. Nobody can be trusted. The Italian and few Eritrean volunteers receive them and try to avoid the first contact between the needy and the smugglers. After all these vultures in Porta Venezia, Milan or at the train station exist because there is the request: demand and supply. They deal in lives.

150 Eritrean asylum seekers in the Milan train station. no home, no food, no water

I met Bianca (Italian) and Magda (Eritrean) in Milan last week. They are but two of the dozen volunteers of Cambio Passo, good people who decided to not sit and wait for the Milan authorities to act (whom are taking their time). Others helping are also Rete Donna Eritrea Italia a volunteer group of Eritrean women in Italy and single people. Cambio Passo act appeals to the heart of all of us: help with small actions. Give water and food to the refugeesin the streets that every day, by the dozens, come to Milan. They are  mostly Eritrean or Syrian.
They are not here to stay...

Lampedusa: Uncovered attempt at washing away basic human rights

18 Dicember 2013

naked refugees in detention camp in Lampedusa being washed with cold water pump

The well-to-do world is hurrying around to by present. Switch on TV and there goes another reality. Not a Christmas Santa's add. What the hole of Taly watched at 1 pm is the video broadcasted on news time at RAI, Italian TV  channel.
The video shows refugees getting undressed and being washed by water pumps by some men, presumably social workers of some "cooperativa", italian word for "welcoming and acceptance facilities/company", in the middle of the yard of the Center for detention, identification and rejection of refugees in Lampedusa (CIE). the human beings humiliated so, were secretly filmed by another refugee, a Syrian man. Whom, as soon as the keepers of the Center found out  provided to punishing him. No food, water or cigarettes for him for a day. Who knows if the punishment is over him.

At the sight of such images Europe was shocked. the Peace Nobel Europe could not accept such inhumane conditions. Immediately , the High Commissioner's office demanded an investigation regarding the organization,management and standards with in these "prisons at open sky" as we call them here in Italy. I believe it wouldn't be out of order to call these places prisons. Even if as far they are the first form of "accoglienza" italian word for "welcoming and acceptance ".

Link after the jump.