Mayda from Baghdad/Iraq arrived in Germany in December 2015 and waits for her asylum application to be processed, in Berlin, Germany, on January 06, 2016. She has been on the road for seventeen days in total before she and her four children reached the German border where they got separated and transported on different buses to different cities. Once registered in the state of arrival, refugees are not allowed to leave the city/country as long as their asylum procedure is on. Mayda shares one cabin with other refugees at the Tempelhof Airport and has to use a wheelchair due to various health issues.
The former 'Tempelhof Airport' in Berlin which has been reconstructed by the Nazi government in 1930, serves as Germany's biggest shelter for refugees with currently over 2000 people housing in the four hangars of the building. According to construction plans, the Berlin municipality aims to extend shelter capacities on the 380 hectare airfield to be able to house up to 7000 refugees. Due to continuing differences that the multinational residents have been facing, the hangars are divided by ethnicities to reduce the intercultural conflicts. Photo by Cigdem Ucuncu/NARphotos/ABACAPRESS.COM