Eight-month-old Syrian twins fought all odds to reach Greece!

About 40 rubber dinghies each carrying 60 to 70 people arrived in the rain on one beach on the island, which was covered in life jackets and rubber tubes.

The island of Lesbos, in the eastern Aegean, is at the epicenter.

Jeanne tells the stories of these refugees and explores how they intersect with the economic struggle of Greeks on Lesbos, where much of the population itself descends from ethnic Greek refugees from Asia Minor after World War I. Some were suffering from hypothermia.

The Rt Rev Graham James, who is playing a role on Norfolk County Council’s refugee taskforce, said: “The refugee crisis in Europe is clearly not going to be short-term”.

“It was hard, we were afraid”, said 18-year-old Ruhin from Afghanistan, whose younger sister collapsed on the shore.

Most arrive on the islands of Lesbos and Kos, just a few miles from Turkey, and soon head to mainland Greece from where they continue their journey to northern European countries.

A record number of at least 430,000 refugees and migrants have taken rickety boats across the Mediterranean to Europe this year, 309,000 via Greece, according to worldwide Organization for Migration figures.