The IRC is delivering clean water and working to improve living conditions for hundreds of refugees crowded into the Kara Tepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Close to 100,000 refugees from countries ravaged by war and violence have fled to Greece in the past six months — all of them seeking the safety of Europe. Two thirds of them have landed on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos.
The International Rescue Committee’s Tyler Jump shares photos from Kara Tepe, a “transit” camp built just outside the island’s capital Mytilene, where the exhausted refugees are stopping before continuing their journey to mainland Greece and other countries to the north.