Pictured Florian Volz and Timo Schmidt.
By Duke Michael of Mecklenburg.
In June, two students started a long journey, the Refugee Road, at the Peace Palace in The Hague. After two-and-a-half months of cycling they finished successfully in Lesvos in Greece. These two men are Florian Volz and Timo Schmidt. Both are students of the BA International Studies at Leiden University.
The road of people fleeing their homes contains not only the Balkan Route, but leads also through Central and Western Europe to The Hague. It includes about 3500 km, which have now been captured on camera by Florian and Timo in about 80 gigabits of film material. Their aim is to make a road documentary about this journey with all its hardship and difficulties, but also hope, telling the stories of the daily refugee reality. Through this, they hope to bring forth more information into the European Migration Crisis discussion. However, the post-production of this documentary now needs sufficient funding.
Diplomat Magazine sees this project of these two young journalists as a significant vivid contribution to the discussion around the migration crisis, which also is present among Diplomats and international organisations. Furthermore, we express our gratitude towards and thank these two keen young journalists for their dedication.
More information about Refugee Roads can be found at:
https://diplomatmagazine.eu/2016/06/05/cycling-the-refugee-road/ the introductory article
www.refugeeroads.com where you can re-visit every step of their bicycle tour along the Balkan Route
https://cinecrowd.com/nl/refugee-roads where you can watch the teaser and contribute to the realisation of Refugee Roads.
If you are interested, questions and feedback are welcome just as much as highly appreciated -and needed – donations to their crowdfunding campaign.
