Refugee crisis: 'What happened to that four-year-old girl who wore those shoes?'

Refugee crisis: 'What happened to that four-year-old girl who wore those shoes?'

'We’ll never begin to understand what they have gone through and what they’ve lost,' says Amy Boyden of the migrants who arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, many of them having crossed the Aegean sea from Turkey on board fragile dinghies. Picture: Michael Varaklas/AP/File

As Amy Boyden clambered over a mountain of orange foam lifejackets on the Greek island of Lesbos, the nauseating scale of the humanitarian crisis knocking on Europe’s door hit her hard.

“It felt like I was at a funeral," she said. "There were thousands and thousands and thousands of lifejackets." 

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