March 30, 2016.766 people reached the islands of Lesbos, Samos, Chios and Kos in the last 24 hours.Darko Vojinovic/Press Association. All rights reserved.The boats are still coming.
The numbers may seem modest compared to the thousands of daily arrivals on Greek shores just a few months ago, before the rest of Europe decided to turn Greece into a holding pen for close to 60,000 refugees. But the more than 3,000 individuals seeking international protection who have made the perilous journey from Turkey since the start of August, are enough to overwhelm the already over-crowded, under-resourced camps on islands scattered across the Aegean Sea.
One of these islands is Chios. With an official capacity providing for 1,100 refugees, some 3,300 people, mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghanis, are now languishing in sordid conditions in the island’s three camps - Vial, Souda and Dipethe.
