In March 2017, I read David Farley’s article [about volunteering at a refugee camp in Greece].
I had never committed to extensive volunteering during my working years, but the article spoke to
me. So [in February 2018], I spent the month volunteering at the same NGO that Mr. Farley worked
for, A Drop in the Ocean, at their Skaramangas camp. Refugees now have a face to me. I have friends
from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. It was the most humbling experience of my life, and I would not
have been aware of the possibility had I not read the article. —Diana Davis, AFAR reader“Two for the Road”
November/December
2017
An unlikely friendship
blossoms during a road
trip through the American
South in contributing
writer Emma John’s story.
McNair Evans’s accom-
panying photography was
a winner for American
Photography 34.1 0 YEARS
OF INSPIRING READERS
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