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In this photo taken on Thursday, April 27, 2017, a car drives near an iron roadside shrine near the village of Avrami, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Saturday, April 29, 2017, two roadside shrines stand in an oak forest of Foloi near the village of Panopoulo, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Saturday, April 29, 2017, a candle is lit in front of holy icons in a roadside shrine at the village of Roupakia, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Saturday, April 29, 2017, a candle is lit in a roadside shrine near the at the village of Agia Kiriaki, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Thursday, April 27, 2017, a roadside shrine is decorated with plastic flowers in front of a field of watermelons near the village of Roupaki in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, a roadside shrine stands near the village of Paleovarvasena, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed on Friday, April 28, 2017, a car passes a roadside shrine near the village of Efyra, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. The shrine marks the spot where at dusk on Oct. 18, 2009, 19-year-old Nikos Staikopoulos lost control of his speeding car, crashed and died. Tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Friday, April 28, 2017, an iron shrine stands near the road in a field of olive trees in the village of Efyra, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, an iron roadside shrine stands in a field near the village of Antroni, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this photo taken on Saturday, April 29, 2017, a candle is lit in a roadside shrine as the sun sets across a nearby lake of Pineia in the village of Souli, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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In this Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 photo, Parvaine Haideri, 30 and 5 months pregnant, an Afghan refugee from Kandahar, holds her 17-month old daughter Nazanin, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter at the refugee camp of Oinofyta, Greece. "I have been waiting in Greece for the last 9 months after arriving from Kandahar, I hope they allow me to go to Denmark to be united with my family, I am a mother of three and the fourth is on the way", Haideri said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Monday, Jan. 2, 2017 photo, Naita As'adi, 22 and 9 months pregnant, an Afghan refugee from Kabul, stands with her 5-year-old daughter Aida, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her room at the refugee camp of Oinofyta, Greece. "It is a big problem to be pregnant while being stranded in Greece, we can't go back to Afghanistan, and I am so scared", As'adi said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 photo, Sa'da Bahjat, 20 and 9 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, holds her daughter Yamoor, 11 months, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "Our situation in Greece is very bad, no one is paying us attention, we are abandoned here, I wish someone would turn to us with help", Bahjat said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 photo, Suzan Ahmad, 15 and 5 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, poses for a picture outside her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "We fled our home looking for a new safe home, I hope any European country will embrace us and not remain in this camp", Rashid said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 photo, Maha Batt, 39 and 6 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, hugs her son Mohammed, 10, while posing for a picture near their shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "I suffer from blood pressure and I am a diabetic, all I want is to have a healthy born child in Germany surrounded by my family", Batt said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 photo, Mizgin Rashid, 23 and 5 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, poses for a picture outside her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "I feel tired all the time, it is not easy to live under these circumstances, I just wish before I deliver I am settled down in a country and a home and not deliver in this camp.", Rashid said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 photo, Zubaida al-Rakad, 35 and 7 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Deir el-Zour, holds her son Osama, 18 months, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, during snowfall at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "Nothing was left for us in Deir el-Zour, we remained until the end and had no option but to leave and remain safe or stay and die, I wish they just let us move out of here to any country that welcomes us", al-Rakad said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 photo, Rania Askar, 31, a Syrian refugee from from Deir el-Zour, who lost her child in her 6th month of pregnancy, poses for a picture while holding her daughter Maya, 4, outside her shelter at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "I didn't know that there was something wrong with my pregnancy until the day I woke up bleeding, I am so sad my heart is broken, this wouldn't happen if I was surrounded by my sisters in Germany." Askar said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 photo, Khanem Haji Murad, 20 and 9 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Kobani, poses for a picture outside her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "All I want is to leave this camp and go to Germany and live around my sisters, it is so cold and I can't imagine having my first child in such environment.", Haji Murad said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 photo, Shireen Daoud, 25 and 3 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, holds her son Herman, 2, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, during snowfall at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "When we left Syria after our home was destroyed we were hoping to find a new safe place, but our dreams had been buried here in Greece as we are stuck, I want to go to Germany to have a better life for my family.", Daoud said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
