MORIA – Ayoub Husseini’s struggle to survive and dream of walking again one day have taken a sudden and cruel turn for the worse.An Afghan asylum-seeker, he is paralyzed from the waist down but made it to the Greek island of Lesbos in February with the help of his younger brother Iesa.
He carries the hope of finding the treatment he needs in Europe. But the pair, both in their 20s, were left homeless after fires last week destroyed Greece’s largest refugee camp.
The site at Moria on the east of the island is infamous for overcrowded and poor living conditions. It housed more than 12,000 people.
Ayoub Husseini spends his days propped up in a makeshift wheelchair against the wall on the terrace of an abandoned building, a winter blanket.