But many thousands more arrive. Sanitation is becoming a major problem. Health workers fear dysentery, diarrhea and other diseases. Refugees are using a river that runs through the area to wash themselves and their clothes. Crisp spring winds blow through the camps.
People go into nearby woods to try to find wood to build campfires.
To make matters worse, as if to taunt the refugees, two dozen empty buses sit more than a mile down the road, but only two with refugees leave each hour. Many have empty seats. Sometimes, Macedonian military forces push back refugees who struggle to climb aboard. Most of us assume it means that places for the refugees to go are running out. Patience certainly is.