Sources from Greece have stated that the UN estimates 57,000 migrants are now trapped in Greece in 47 camps are unable to continue their journeys because Europe has closed its borders and they have met migrants living in a disused toilet roll factory called Softex has told them of their increasing desperation at being stuck.
Softex is home to around 1,500 migrants and it is notorious amongst aid workers as being the worst of the camps and the first thing that strikes as you walk into the old warehouse is just how dark it is with tents as far as the eye can see.
Abed Jasem shows them inside his tent and there are four camp beds for his family of six, for his wife Amina el Aresh and their four children aged five to 16, where they have fled the bombardments and horror of civil war in the Syrian city of Aleppo, but likens his life now to his life there.
Meanwhile another migrant has said the only option is to turn to criminals for help is showing them how easy it is to dial a people smuggler who offers a passage to Serbia for 1,200 euros and there are volunteers and there is help from aid agencies but it's the overriding sense of hopelessness that only international will can change for them presently.
