We talked to a group of Ivorian women composed of 11 individuals; with them 4 children of whom 2 were young twins. “It’s difficult to understand where we are, what is happening, we are still traumatized. We went through a lot in Libya”. We ask them to talk about something. “Where are we? How far… Read more »

Even this week MEDUs’ team was operating at the hotspot of Pozzallo where women and men for days and days are “waiting” to be resettled in other European countries. “I was a happy child before they bombed my city, I milked the cows, I liked it. I called them one by one by name and… Read more »

We meet the eyes of A. 18 years old from Egypt: they are shiny, wet by tears. We explain to him that our team deals with both body and invisible wounds of the mind. A. “It is just as you say”, he confirms with emphasis, “even those of the heart are wounds like those I… Read more »

Najm has a secret. He doesn’t sleep at night, he leaves his plastic house in the refugee camp and he walks sleepily in the desert sand. Najm is six years old and they say he can’t concentrate at school and he is aggressive with classmates. The mother tells us that he loves colors but his… Read more »

From the Medu clinical team operating during the disembarkation in Pozzallo The general conditions of migrants are good, even if two persons have been immediately hospitalized (one for skin burns) At the time of disembarkation, the same persons, identified as the most vulnerable by our psychologist, have been also questioned by the police, inside the… Read more »

At the hotspot at around 16.00 pm, You can breathe a strange air of quietness. Soon, from words heard by the migrants it became an explicit background of widespread fear “The Italian minister did not want to welcome us, he did not want us to get out from the ship.” There are only 50 of… Read more »