A Syrian refugee sits in front of a climbing wall at an abandoned school in Greece. Volunteers have been using this old school to house refugee families for the last three months.
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The abandoned facility is now a place to live, learn, and play for 250 refugees.
In the stories about refugees who have fled to Greece, one word comes up often—stuck. Fleeing conflict in Syria, Afghanistan, and other countries, the asylum-seekers have hit roadblocks and closed borders.
While the flow of refugees has slowed since last year, it hasn’t stopped. More than 1,300 refugees arrived in Greece in June, adding to a total of about 57,000. Many camps are full, and it’s increasingly difficult for refugees to find lodging as they wait to continue their journeys beyond the Grecian borders.
But now, one group of refugees has found a new temporary home in an unused school in Athens.
The campus in Athens was abandoned in 2013, but rediscovered this spring by a group of volunteers, who converted it
