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Afghan children play in the Pedion Areos park, an improvised refugee camp in central Athens. Almost 60% of the population are children. Everyday approximately 100 people come and go, and around 400 people live here in 75 tents.

A Syrian child travels with a group of Syrians in the Athens metro from Piraeus port to Omonia Square, the most common place where migrants gather when they first arrive in Athens.

Janeiro Bar, located in Omonia Square in the center of Athens, provides Syrian immigrants menus written in Arabic, free wifi and affordable food.

Syrians who are already established in Athens help migrants catch the bus to Thessaloniki from Omonia Square. Thessaloniki is a city close to the Macedonian border. At that point, smugglers ask for money to guide migrants through an illegal border crossing by foot.

Syrian Children play in Omonia Square in central Athens, while their relatives prepare the bus trip to Thessaloniki.

Greek civilians and non-profit organisations provide tents to those who arrive without a place to sleep when they get into the Pedion Areos Park in Athens.

Survival guides handed out by the Greek Council of Refugees litter the ground in Pedion Areos Park.

Panagiotis Andronikidis is an Athenian who spends hours every day helping Afghans and entertaining children in Pedion Areos Park.

A women tries to cool her son who has fever inside a tent in the improvised refugee camp in Pedion Areos Park.

A young Afghan prays behind the tents in the improvised refugee camp of Pedion Areos Park.

Afghan teenagers plays with water while they wash their body and clothes in the improvised refugee camp inside Pedion Areos Park.

An 18 month-old Afghan baby sleeps on a carpet in Pedion Areos Park in Athens, Greece.

The greek government provides an identification document that allows a 30 days stay for Afghans and six months for Syrians. However, this document doesn't permit migrants to cross borders, so those people remain unrecognized.

An Afghan woman browses on the internet with her smartphone while her baby sleeps in the improvised refugee camp on Pedion Areos Park in Athens.

Members of the Afghan community in Athens leave the Pedion Areos Park after making donations to their countrymen. Many Afghans who lives in Greece help these migrants to reach more prosperous countries in the EU like Germany and France.

An Afghan family checks their bus tickets to Thessaloniki, a 7-hour trip to the city nearest the Macedonian border.

Afghan comrades says goodbye to immigrants who take the bus to Thessaloniki and the beginning of their journey to northern Europe.

This collection features photos of young people in Mauritius: in class at the university and organizing an awareness campaign on campus, and using computers at the inauguration of a community internet access point.

A young person uses a computer at a community internet access point in Mauritius.

A man is helped to use a computer at a community internet access point in Mauritius.

A young person helps community members use a computer at a community internet access point in Mauritius.

A young person uses a computer at a community internet access point in Mauritius.

A young person uses a computer at a community internet access point in Mauritius.

A young person uses a computer at a community internet access point in Mauritius.

University students gather during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign they organised to inform their peers on the virus and prevention.

University students gather during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign they organised to inform their peers on the virus and prevention.

University students gather during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign they organised to inform their peers on the virus and prevention.

University students listen to a lecture.

University students listen to a lecture.

University students listen to a lecture.

As the Land Day action is brought to an abrupt halt in Wadi Fukin, the majority of the 350 olive tree saplings remain unplanted outside a house in the village after activists were forced to escape from clouds of tear gas that was fired by Israeli soldiers.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

A Palestinian child watches from a rooftop in Wadi Fukin as Israeli soldiers fire rounds of tear gas at fleeing activists during a tree planting event to mark Land Day. In the background stands the huge Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit which is built partly on the land of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

Two elderly Palestinian women attempt to make their way down the hill in Wadi Fukin to escape from the tear gas that is being fired by Israeli forces.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

An Israeli security helicopter circles above Wadi Fukin during the olive tree planting event to commemorate Palestinian Land Day on March 30th 2015.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

Israeli soldiers line up on a hill top in Wadi Fukin as Palestinian activists watch from a distance during an olive tree planting event to commemorate Land Day in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

350 olive trees were brought to Wadi Fukin to be planted on the lands threatened by settlement expansion.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine, March 30 2105.

Activists make their way up a hill toward land that is threatened by the expansion of the Sur Haddasah settlement. In the background, the huge Beitar Illit settlement is also built on the land of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine, March 30 2015.

In the West Bank village of Wadi Fukin, an olive tree planting event is underway with local activists and refugees from Bethlehem's refugee camps to commemorate Land Day on March 30th 2015.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

Activists flee as Israeli forces rain tear gas down on them. The tear gas stopped the olive tree planting event being held to commemorate Land Day in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

A Palestinian youth raises a Palestinian flag from the top of settlement construction machinery within the construction site that is expanding the Israeli settlement of Sur Hadassah. Sur Hadassah is located on the land of the West Bank Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin and the land of the pre-Nakba Palestinian village of Ras Abu Ammar.
Wadi Fukin/Ras Abu Ammar, West Bank/Green Line, Palestine. March 30 2015.