Heavy rain is pounding against the plastic roof of the white tent. The tarpaulin that replaces the door opens and a thin man in shabby clothes comes out. He continues walking across the sodden lawn before disappearing into another tent. A woman stands in the mud nearby, nervously rocking a child in her arms.
The baby stopped crying a little while ago. He was interrupted by a helicopter taking off nearby. The noise of its engine, together with the fence behind which the scenery takes place, completes the heaviness of the place.
Welcome to Vajnory, a city district on the outskirts of Bratislava, currently the largest refugee camp in Slovakia.
“I’m on my way over the moon. Sometimes on foot, sometimes by car,” says Ahmad. With a group of other runners, he is standing by the foosball table, which for some reason is standing on the pavement.
Ahmada Syrian refugee in the Bratislava camp
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