This striking video, created by Doctors without borders in collaboration with the Lebanese studio Kawakeb, shows the content of an anonymous letter, attributed to an emigrant drowned in the Mediterranean, while he tried to fled war and reach the European coasts.
The video crudely shows the despair that leads to escape from their countries, such as war, poverty, repression and ethnic or political persecution… as well as the obstacles and difficulties they have to overcome in order to run away. Illegal routes, mafias, frontiers and administrations, prejudices, are factors they should not have to face and to which we contribute explicit or implicitly. As Doctors without borders state: “How far would you go for a safe, dignified life for you and your family? What reception would you expect?”
More than 2,000 people were assisted by Doctors without borders in 2016. That same year, more than 5,000 people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, that is, an average of 14 people a day. Sadly, this trend continues and so far this year, 2017, more than 1,300 have found death in this same sea.