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-When something like this
happens, people say, well,

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where is God?

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The answer is that God
is with the refugee.

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God is in the boat
with those people.

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God always stands on the
side of the oppressed,

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the poor, the victimised.

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So that means for me that I've
got to be on the same side.

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-Yeah.

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-...we move from kitchen
between distribution.

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-Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We move kitchen, distribution,
kitchen, distribution.

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-So you know what I think I'm
going to do is leave-- sorry,

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I'm just talking to myself.

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-5 or 6 buses expected in
the next 2 hours, so maybe

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make sure you only hand out
shoes to really wet people

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and maybe prepare some
emergency blankets?

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-Last summer when the
news of the Syrian crisis

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was really hitting the
media, and the kid who

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was washed up on
the beach, there

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was an outpouring of support.

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And then everything
turned 180 degrees

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after the Paris attacks.

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In fact, the governor
of Texas said

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that he wasn't going to
allow any Syrian refugees

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in his state because
they might be terrorists.

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-Welcome, everybody.

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I'm sure you are hungry.

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If you want to eat,
there's the kitchen.

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If you guys need new clothes,
over there where the light is,

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you can get dry clothes.

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-This is people who
don't understand

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what the situation
on the ground is,

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so I wanted to come
and see it for myself,

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and be able to tell
the story back home.

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-This guy is really shivery.

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-Thousands of
people, every week,

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are making the
dangerous boat journey.

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And there's not much
of a system in place

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to care for them
once they get here

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and help them see their
way onto the next step.

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-Men, please, over here.

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Women and babies on this side.

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OK?

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This is the gate of not
such great memories.

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On this side, they
put the single men.

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And there were
like, rows of them.

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And they were pressed
up against the gate.

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I don't know how
they ate and slept

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for sometimes up to five days,
because if you leave your spot,

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you would lose it.

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People were screaming, fighting,
just because people were so

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frustrated trying to get in.

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That's when the police
started using tear gas.

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I saw some awful things.

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-It's kind of introduced
me to the whole complexity

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of the situation, that you
can't just summarise it

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in a single sentence.

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Our people are crossing,
they're landing.

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We saw them shivering.

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We saw the children crying.

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What I don't understand
is how anybody could not

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be moved by that.

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-Part of the problem is
that nations work out

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of a self-preservation,
while they are all

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meant to be concerned about
only their self-defence

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and protection.

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It's the job of citizens,
ordinary citizens,

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to keep pushing
back against that.

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That's part of... part
of the fight is to keep

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the governments from causing
us to forget our humanitarian

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principles.

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