If they have to film refugees, instead of shouting at them from boats, why don’t reporters talk to them on the beaches, when they land, treating them like humans?

“What‘s your name? Which country are you from? What was the situation there? What was your profession there? Etc.”

What’s your name?

“Ahmad Al-Rashid @ahmadalrashid99”

Where are you from?

“Originally, Syria, then Iraq”

What was the situation there?

“Hell, then more hell”

What was your profession?

“I studied English at uni. Taught English in Syrian refugee camps, before joining UNICEF”

Please watch @ahmadalrashid99’s talk, in which he describes life in Syria, fleeing to Iraq, the arrival of ISIS, escaping to Turkey, getting bombed in Turkey, fleeing to Greece, then France, before being smuggled to the UK.

Humbling.