A report from local lady Jacky Malatoux

Can you remember at the beginning of last summer we got an email from Jacky Malatoux who lives locally asking for medicines. She and her practising Doctor husband were visiting her sister who lives in Greece. Her sister had alerted her to the growing crisis along the mediterrean shores. From the visit Jacky came back and set up numerous projects to buy ponchos and shoes and back packs for the ever increasing flow of families to the Greek shores. She has made numerous visits back to help and sends back reports. The one below I find so sad and touching. Without people like you many  more of these families may have died and suffered more... thank you Jacky.

Have been helping where I can for the survivors during the last six months, yesterday i felt I wanted to pay my respects for those who did not make it but drowned in the short passage from Turkey to Greece.  So I decided to go and look for the graveyard that a Lesvos man created in his olive grove.  The thousand year old olive trees give a peace to area that is quite remarkable and the many coloured wild anemones a beauty to the stark area of the graves. Each little mound of earth is marked by a simple white marble slab with the name when know which is not so often. The grave where two unknown baby girls who drowned when just three months old was heartbreaking.
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