Volunteers for aid groups have created a huge peace sign on a Greek island out of thousands of life jackets to spread a new year's message of hope.
Volunteers for aid groups supporting Syrian refugees in Greece have come together to create a message of peace out of the life jackets the refugees left behind.
Florian Schulz/Greenpeace
The volunteers are working on Lesbos, a Greek island where more than 500,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have landed after crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
These refugees have left behind thousands of life jackets, which have grown into a huge rubbish dump on the island.
"The dump site stands as a statue, a silent reminder of the risks and that so many more still hold out hope of a safe crossing," Greenpeace said. "It also includes the life jackets of those who never made it, of those who lost their lives at sea and can never return home or continue their journey north."
Romain Toublant/Greenpeace
The more than 100 people combed through the dump site on the first day of the new year, and plucked out more than 3,000 life jackets to make the peace sign.
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