{"id":12315,"date":"2016-07-08T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2016-07-08T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:35:05","slug":"greek-syrian-mayor-and-refugees-bring-tourist-village-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/greek-syrian-mayor-and-refugees-bring-tourist-village-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Syrian mayor and refugees bring tourist village back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12317 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unhcr.jpg\" alt=\"unhcr\" width=\"966\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unhcr.jpg 966w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unhcr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unhcr-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>round\u00a0320 refugees, mostly from Syria, now live in an\u00a0LM Village summer resort that closed over\u00a0five years ago as a result of Greece\u2019s financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The idea to reopen the resort as a refugee reception centre came from\u00a0local mayor, Nabil-Iosif Morad, a Syrian doctor from Homs who has lived in Greece for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>He offered the resort after the Greek Government asked local mayors for help in taking in the 57,460 refugees still in Greece,<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article first published by <em>the UNHCR<\/em>. 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