What happens when the lights go out?

Very occasionally, we have a power cut in the UK

People hunt around for candles and matches; children are excited by the novelty, and play with torches, while Dad digs out an old transistor radio and hunts for the right size of batteries. It's a lot of fun.  The wireless landline phones won't work, so friends and neighbours are contacted on mobiles in attempts to find out the extent of the disruption.

But after an hour or so, the lights flicker back on, and a cheer rings out from the homes up and down the street. 

Not so in Syria  .  . . .

No British television channel reveals the full scale of the horrific situation on the other side of the channel whether it's the mudbath of Calais and Dunkirk, the prison-style camps across the Balkans, or the drowned children of the Eastern Aegean. This is Europe's biggest humanitarian crisis in our lifetime. They are all refugees, whether they are fleeing from persecution, war, poverty - or all of these. It is insulting and irresponsible to refer to them, sneeringly, as a swarm of migrants.
Most of the refugees have lost every aspect of their home life; the others never had much in the way of "home life." They have lost the buildings, the infrastructure and the community. It is like the East End of London in WW2 - on a scale almost as total as what RAF Bomber Command did to Dresden. 

King George and Queen Elizabeth in the East End in 1941 at the height of the Blitz

Aleppo, Syria; 2016

I fly to Greece on April 6th, and was scheduled to help run Jocasta's Kitchen on the island of Samos, preparing a thousand meals a day for refugees, with plans to double the output over the coming weeks. 
Now the rules have changed. Boats are ferrying refugees to and fro between the islands and Turkey, or from the islands to Piraeus, the port of Athens.
We might decide to pack up Jocasta's Kitchen and relocate it on the mainland, possibly at Idomeni.

Thousands are stranded at Idomeni at the border with Macedonia

If you want to be part of the answer, money would help through the scheme I have set up below - but there is something far more important.....

...Evil triumphs when ignorance flourishes, so spread the word about the reality of the situation; be prepared to welcome refugees to our country, and help them settle in. The biggest impediment to improving the situation is the intransigence of our own government, who know that there are no votes to be won by increasing immigration, and carefully ignore and avoid their humanitarian obligation. 

How can we call ourselves a "Christian Country!" Clearly the PM has a different version of the Bible from the one we had at home.

So . . . how would you feel if you were on the run from poverty and persecution?

https://www.gofundme.com/Samos-Refugees