The images from this exceptional photo-report by Maro Kourí from the island of Lesbos, sent to us by Jai Mexis, say more than a thousand words ever could: entire families arrive every day in improvised boats coming from Turkey and they walk for kilometers, even with children, to reach the refugee reception camps.

October 4,2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Refugees arrive into a small plastic and cheap boat to the coast of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (Maro Kouri)

October 4,2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Refugees arrive into a small plastic and cheap boat to the coast of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (Maro Kouri)

October 4,2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Refugees arrive by a small plastic and cheap boat to the coasts of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (photo by Maro Kouri)

October 4, 2015 -Lesvos, Greece: man and child have just arrived by a plastic boat to the Greek coast, from Turkey, and walk all the way to find a camp near Molyvos city (Maro Kouri)

October 4, 2015 - Lesvos, Greece: Refugees children walk for hours more than 30 km in order to find shelter in a camp. Thousands of refugees arrive to Lesvos coasts in plastic -and not safe- boats from the turkish coasts in order to travel towards north Europe (Maro Kouri)

October 4, 2015 - Lesvos, Greece: Child prays in a temporary shelter of the island, where, every day arrive thousands of refugees from the turkish coasts on plastic, small boats. ( Maro Kouri)

October 4,2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Refugees arrive by a small plastic and cheap boat to the coasts of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (Maro Kouri)

October 4,2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Refugees arrive by a small plastic and cheap boat to the coasts of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (Maro Kouri)

October 4,2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Refugees arrive by a small plastic and cheap boat to the coasts of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (Maro Kouri)

October 5, 2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Man moves his hands holding two life-jackets, in order to attrack the refugees' boats. Refugees arrive to the coast of the Greek island Lesvos, into small plastic and cheap boats from the Turkish land. (Maro Kouri)

October 5, 2015-Lesvos, North-east Aegean sea, Greece: Children refugees arrive into a small plastic and cheap boat to the coast of the Greek island Lesvos from the Turkish land (Maro Kouri)

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