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Living as Neighbours, Episode 2
Originally from Wales, Philippa moved to Greece with her husband and young daughter in search of a quiet life by the sea. But in 2014, on the way to school, she stopped to help a distressed woman and child who had just crossed from Turkey on a boat. She says “it is impossible to drive past people in need and do nothing.”
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Living as Neighbours, Episode 3
A Greek citizen, Thanasis was driving in his car in 2014 when he first heard of some children who survived a shipwreck, being pushed back into the sea by coastguards. He felt "a calling" and signed up as a volunteer to do sea rescue work in Lesbos. Nearly a decade on, he says "it is dangerous work, but we have to do what is right."
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Living as Neighbours, Episode 4
Sanela was a teacher in 2018 when police in her northern Bosnian town of Cljuč began stopping buses to turn back migrants seeking to cross the border into Croatia. With her father, a policeman, she began providing food, water, blankets, shelter to help those stranded on the road in freezing temperatures. Now, together with some of those refugees and migrants, she runs a social integration center in the city of Sarajevo.
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