Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue 11, 1 May 2019 | Page 24

‘Tapping’ in Greek Refugee Camp
“Do you want to know the secret of how to stay human here in this
camp?” asks Pépé, the Congolese community leader in the Moria
refugee camp, when we meet in the crowd outside the barbed wire
gate.
“Yes, do tell me!” I reply.
He smiles and says, “You have to give love! That is the only way
your soul can survive in this hell. You have to help others.
Otherwise, you get sick.”
Moria Refugee Camp in Lesbos, Greece is an unwanted home for 8500
asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo, Cameroon and
more.
The people here experience frustration from overcrowded tents; open,
stinking sewage; fighting in the food line; hearts racing from stress;
traumatised screaming in the night; dust in the eyes… and months of
waiting for decisions which will determine whether they are able to leave,
and if so, where they will go.