Syrian refugee Asmaa holds her 6-month old baby Osman while her 5-year-old boy Abdul-Rahman sits beside her. Asmaa and her husband Omar fled their home near Damascus over one and half months ago, travelling through Lebanon then onto Turkey before crossing the Aegean to Greece. The boat they were travelling was heavily overloaded and when the engine cut out they began to take water on-board. In a bid to stay afloat everyone decided to throw their luggage overboard. Omar and Asmaa lost everything including their passports and the little amount of money they had in cash. In recent weeks huge numbers of refugees, many of them hailing from Syria and Afghanistan have been crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey to Greece. The Island of Lesbos is the main landing point and thousands of people are now clogging the Islands’ main cities and ports as they look for ways to continue their journey onto the mainland and towards the Balkans. The crossings are fraught we danger as boats are overloaded and usually captain-less.