We are now getting over 2500 a day, and the stations there are literally trampled into the mud. We have nothing left. We need everything. I worked with students in the dormitories at the University in Tirana. The occupied dorms, for example, are missing much of the window glass and plumbing.
Lights fade in and out through the evening, since electricity blackouts are routine.
Hungry students have even been known to steal produce and steal and kill local fowl in nearby neighborhoods for food. Now refugees by the thousands are piled into the city, and other smaller even poorer towns receive throngs on top of the residents. Thus, even in this horrible state of need, there is a layer of resentment to work through. The much richer Kosovars, as the Albanians see it, didn't help THEM any when they were under a Maoist dictator. And their own Albanian cupboards are so bare that emigration to Italy and the west was a primary national ambition.