Yet when spoken, they convey a heartbreaking urgency. We need everything. He is speaking to a delegation of North American Jewish leaders who have traveled to Albania to deliver relief supplies and gain a greater understanding of how Jewish dollars are being spent in the field. Unlike most camps, Piscina has sanitation. Still, residents shower only once a week after standing in long lines, sharing about 25 showers.
Toilets consist of a row of wooden outhouses with holes in the floor.
Those facilities, along with other amenities, had to be added quickly to accommodate the vast numbers of people crowding into the relatively small space. So are rest and recreation. The Dynamo Sport Complex is now a land of confusion, exhaustion. At midday, residents roam the camp grounds, sitting in tents talking, resting or playing games provided by humanitarian organizations. In this strange culture of displacement, one day rolls into the next.