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A Journey of Hope - part 4 of 1 2 3 4

by Darrin Zammit-Lupi Published 01/07/2016

At Slavonski Brod, Croatia's sixth largest city, a large industrial zone has been converted into a transit camp. Several times a day, trains carrying around a thousand migrants stop in the camp, and once again, everyone disembarks. Men and women of all ages, as well as children, queue through a complex of tents to be registered. The wind and rain pick up. Before long, an intense gale is ripping through the camp, knocking down tents and flipping over a couple of containers. Under a large marquee tent in which NGOs distribute clothing, food and hot drinks to the migrants, people desperately try to hold down the parts of the canvas that are flapping insanely in the wind. They know that if this marquee - packed with several hundred people - collapses, there will be a lot of injuries. Luckily that doesn't happen. Once the storm abates, Croatian soldiers immediately move into action to repair the damage and re-erect the smaller tents that bore the brunt of the wind's fury.

The migrants are only in the camp long enough to register, pass through the NGO tent to try get whatever supplies they may need and then return to the train, which will take them onwards on their journey into central Europe.

This report was written before the EU-Turkey agreement on the return of migrants to Turkey came into effect.

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