LuganoPhotoDays 2016
LuganoPhotoDays
Jan Zychlinski
Another forgotten refugees
During several travels in 2015 I visited a lot of IDP (Internally desplaced persons) Camps all over Ukraine. In Middle Europe only a few people know about this at the moment almost 1.8 billion refugees from the East Ukraine (Donbass) and Crimea. There are only poor state structures for providing humanitarian aid and also the international community do only few things for this people. They live and survive at verry different places such as Container camps, own flats or so called Collectiv houses (former Schools, Dormitories, Sanatories or Kindergardens etc.). At this places one can find a heterogenic mix of people with a brough variety of stories and biographies. Very often they live as a kind of parallel society even there are a huge movement of volunteers trying to make their life easier. With the war in Syria and the hugh refugee movement from Africa and the arabian Countries this people disappeared from our daily news and remains in oblivion.