Children refuse to lose hope
«When we first heard that fire had broken out in Kaiafa, we thought it wouldn’t reach our village, but in the end it did. It went through Zacharo, Neohori, Tholo, Taxiarches, Lepraioi, Faskomilia, and it almost went through our village. They managed to stop the fire just outside the village. When the fire got to Faskomilia, we all started filling up water bottles to fill the tanks so people could put out the fires. «When the fire was outside our village, we were a bit scared that our fathers might get burnt, but they didn’t. They tried to stop our property from burning, to stop the moments that we lived in this place from burning. We depend on the olive trees, because we get some money from them. We had animals that we loved, but some of them got burnt. «But we won’t lose hope that this beautiful forest will grow back. We believe that with school starting we’ll forget. We’ll replant with our teachers and everything will be like it was before.» By Athena Doufa and Iota Biniori, two students at the Nea Fiagaliea primary school.
