Norwegian Refugee Council

Palestinian, Syrian refugees in Lebanon camps brace for virus

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in overcrowded and rundown camps in Lebanon are bracing for the novel coronavirus as aid groups mobilize to help.    

Lebanon is home to tens of thousands of Palestinians in camps that over the decades have become bustling neighborhoods and at least 1.5 million Syrians who have fled the war next door.    

The day after for refugee NGOs on Greece's islands

Nikos Tsakos may be 32 years old but he's only known what he wants to do when he grows up - what he's good at, the thing that will give his life meaning - for a few months. He started in the field he studied - information technology - but the firm he worked for in Athens went bankrupt and Nikos was forced to go back home, to the island of Chios.