Life on Kos

Rachael Swancott writes about the migrant situation

by Rachael Swancott 18th December 2015

In November I travelled to Kos to volunteer for the local refugee aid charity Kos Solidarity, and was supported in this by individuals and Meetings. From saying I would ‘quite like to go’ to arriving in Kos was about four weeks. I’m a ‘doer’ as a rule. I like action and movement and ideas. I stop and think about why I may have been led a certain way after following, rarely before. I must admit, however, that when I found myself wandering alone in Kos completely lost, at six in the morning, I thought: What on earth did I think I was doing – I’m just one woman and I can’t even find my hotel?