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And when you think, you’ve seen and heard everything possible and impossible in Greece of austerity and crisis… there comes this incredible human story: a family of five lives in carton boxes. In the city of Patras in western Greece. The family ended up on the streets after a labor …

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Squeezed between steering wheel, handbrake, door and dashboard, Katerina reads in her history book, takes notes for school. Next to her, on the driver’s seat, cat Eddy stares right in the camera lens. It may look like a cute snapshot on a sunny day, if it wasn’t for a sad …

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 Blue-eyed Angelina had the misfortune of being born in Greece in 2010, just as the country became engulfed by an economic crisis that has deprived her parents, like so many Greeks, of their jobs and livelihood, AFP reports. Today, Angelina’s family lives in the run-down district of Palia Kokkinia, near …

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A Greek-Bulgarian family has been living at the Munich airport in Germany for the last six months. Almost like in film The Terminal with Tom Hanks. Unlike Tom Hanks, the three-member family is allowed to leave the airport, only it has nowhere to go. Neither in Munich, nor in Thessaloniki, …

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