HOPES AND FEARS IN ESPOO | outineuvonen

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"Please help me,

I'm near crazy"

-nameless afghan

All the pictures has been taken in

a reception center in Espoo, Finland,

during the years of 2016 and 2017

Six hundred asylum seekers are sharing their lives in the largest reception center in Finland

Shisha is a small pleasure in days that are full of emptiness and anxiety

Sello library says welcome. Does Finland also?

Abrar, Eritrea: I had to live under the dictatory for fifteen years.

The refugees are settled on six floors in the old office building

Daffer from Iraq learns how to read cyrillic alphabets.

Smoking is one of the time killers.

Rosa, a security stuff

Habib Rahmani. The center has a prayer room.

Fawzaldin came from Iraq, and has already two negative asylums. He has appealed the decisions to court.

The phone is the most important thing to keep residents in sane.

What do you need from the future?

Nights are even longer than days, most of the residents suffers from serious insomnia.

A second cycle. Daffer gives a hug for a friend because he got so happy after first snow.

Security checks are held many times a day.

Mbarek from Iraq. There is no guarantee of a safe future.

Nazim Al-Hamdani

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