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World’s second-largest asset manager estimates reduction will save investors $3.5mn a year

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Real Estate   来源:Life  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:Ethnic and religious minorities, human rights advocates, and journalists also face heightened dangers upon return.

Ethnic and religious minorities, human rights advocates, and journalists also face heightened dangers upon return.

The then 25-year-old Spanish volunteer arranged housing for refugees in abandoned facilities like schools and libraries, and set up community kitchens, language classes and art activities.“It was kind of a massive cascade of people,” Garcia recalls.

World’s second-largest asset manager estimates reduction will save investors $3.5mn a year

“My own memory of that time is oddly patchy,” he admits. Though there was one encounter that stood out.In one of those schools in Athens’ Exarcheia neighbourhood, where refugees painted the external wall to illustrate their memories of their journeys, Garcia met a Syrian woman in her late 70s.“I’m not afraid of being a refugee. I have lived all my life. I’m happy with what I have lived,” he recalls her telling him. “I’m afraid that my grandkids will be refugees for all their life.”

World’s second-largest asset manager estimates reduction will save investors $3.5mn a year

When he tried to reassure her that they would find a place to start anew, she protested: “No, no, I’m worried, because when my grandkids grow [up] and they ask themselves, ‘Where do I come from?’ they won’t be able to answer that question.”The woman told him how, during the family’s journey to Greece, all but one of their photo albums were lost.

World’s second-largest asset manager estimates reduction will save investors $3.5mn a year

Now, she said, all the memories of their lives in Syria existed only in her and her husband’s minds, unrecorded and unrecoverable for the next generation.

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