They were supposed to arrive on the train at 3:35 pm.

It was an unusually sunny and warm day for February 1st, back in 2016.

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For many years now, from time to time, I have been helping out at a women’s shelter not far from where I live.

These are places not known to many people. A few social workers, police, a doctor, and very few volunteers, all of them female.

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(This story is based on a memory shared with me by a woman I met while volunteering in a homeless shelter)

"If you wanted to survive, there was one rule more important than any other: Don't trust anybody but yourself.

Each of us had their own history, and we never asked or related a lot, because too much familiarity meant you would not be able ( Read more... )

To our meeting of the volunteers assisting the refugees in our village, Tina arrives with a face, that talks of outrage and barely contained anger ( Read more... )