Everybody with access to the internet knows that the world is facing a humanitarian refugee crisis. To drive home the point, Johnnie Walker released a short story about the island of Lesvos in Greece where people helped thousands of refugees to safety.
Skala Sikamineas is a small locality on the Greek island of Lesvos which saw 3,00,000 refugees come in just this year and the magnanimity of its people got Greece a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The short film shows a haunting image of mounds of life-jackets that were worn by refugees while they were trying to get to safer shores. At least 3,000 refugees have died this year alone trying to reach Europe.
The residents of Skala Sikamineas said they saw it as their duty to help those people and that if they were ever in that situation, they would want people to rescue them as well.
We were fishing for people instead of fish.
Refugees would leave their wet clothes at the doorsteps of residents who would wash and iron them for the refugees.
The short film shows that helping the distressed is not something that should seem “greek” to anyone but should be done with open arms.
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