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Refugees from Afghanistan and the Middle East wait to register for a 72 hour travel permit in a migrant and refugee centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 5 , 2015.

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Ribash and Ahmed, refugees from Syria, warm themselves by a small fire after registering at a centre for migrants and refugees centre in Preševo, southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015..

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Families from Syria walk through a field to cross the border from Serbia to Croatia on October 2, 2015.

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4-month-old Narghez, from Deir Ez Zour in Syria, waits with her family inside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. Her family fled Syria after Isis took over their village. They entered Europe by boat. The 7 meter long inflatable had 35 people in and took 6 hours to reach Greece, during which the mother fell unconscious.
Their father said" If you don't join Isis they'll kill you. Everyday you see someone being hung."

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Refugees from Afghanistan and the Middle East wait to register for a 72 hour travel permit in a migrant and refugee centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 5, 2015.

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Saddam, from Deir Azzour in Syria carries his three-year old boys Basili and Ghazan across the border with his children to Croatia, outside Šit in Serbia, on October 2, 2015. He fled his home in Syria with his four children after his wife died.

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Refugees from the Middle East and Afghanistan wait inside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015.

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Hamoud, 1, and his 4-month-old sister, Zara, from Deir Ez Zour in Syria, wait with their family inside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. Their family fled Syria after Isis took over their village. They entered Europe by boat. The 7 meter long inflatable had 35 people in and took 6 hours to reach Greece, during which the mother fell unconscious.
Their father said" If you don't join Isis they'll kill you. Everyday you see someone being hung."
Real Name Jonas,1, Narghez, 4 months

Oxfam will be distributing materials to help those who have reached Serbia to cope with the coming winter. It will focus in Šid, near the border with Croatia, Dimitrovgrad near the border with Bulgaria and in Preševo/Miratovac, near the Macedonia border. Oxfam will provide toilets, showers and water points and is looking to raise €1m for this program.

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Yasser Hussein, from Homs in Syria, cand his son walk towards a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. The father of 5 and his group had already travelled for 20 kilometres that day.

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Ahmad, a refugee from Syria, and his daughter Nour, walk towards a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. He and the group he's walking with had already travelled for 20 kilometres that day.

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Refugees from Syria walk towards a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. The families from Deir Ez Zour, Aleppo and Homs, had walked for 20km that day to reach the centre.


Oxfam will be distributing materials to help those who have reached Serbia to cope with the coming winter. It will focus in Šid, near the border with Croatia, Dimitrovgrad near the border with Bulgaria and in Preševo/Miratovac, near the Macedonia border. Oxfam will provide toilets, showers and water points and is looking to raise €1m for this program.

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Refugees from Syria walk towards a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. The families from Deir Ez Zour, Aleppo and Homs, had walked for 20km that day to reach the centre.

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Refugees from Syria walk towards a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia. The families from Deir Ez Zour, Aleppo and Homs, had walked for 20km that day to reach the centre.

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Refugees wait to enter at a registration centre for migrants and refugees centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 4, 2015.

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Refugees from Afghanistan and the Middle East wait to register for a 72 hour travel permit in a migrant and refugee centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 5, 2015.

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Hassan Hussein, a refugee from Syria, pleads with police to allow his family into a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia.

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Refugees wait to enter at a registration centre for migrants and refugees centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 4, 2015.

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Suleiman Abdullah Ghanam, a father of 6, waits to board a bus after registering for a 72 hour travel permit in a migrant and refugee centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 4 , 2015.
His family paid $5,000 for a boat from Turkey and now say they've run out of money for food. They had to sleep in the street in the rain overnight before they could register this morning.

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Mariam Bazr Bashi, 29, from Damascus in Syria waits to board a bus after registering for a 72 hour travel permit in a migrant and refugee centre in Preševo, Serbia, on October 4 , 2015.
Mariam had been travelling for 7 days from Turkey via Macedonia with her two sons Abbas, 7 and Hamza, 4. Abbas suffers from muscular dystrophy and can't walk. Mariam carried him as far as Serbia before she was given a wheelchair. She intends to go to Germany to get treatment for her son. Her husband is still in Syria.

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Rosa, 20, and her baby daughter, from Kobane in Syria wait to leave Serbia near to the Croatian border on October 7, 2015. Her family are headed to Norway to meet up with three of her brothers who are already there.

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Rosa, 3 from Kobane in Syria wears winter clothes she has just received at a distribution set up by Oxfam near the Croatian border in northern Serbia on October 7, 2015.

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Yassine, a refugee from Syria, puts on boots that have just been given to him at a border crossing point between Serbia and Croatia, on October 7, 2015. Yassine speaks spanish so is hoping to find a way to reach Spain. "It's been very cold since Macedonia," he said. "I didn't care about shoe before - just walking".

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Mohammad Hassan, 2, from Qamishli in Syria waits to cross the border from Serbia to Croatia after taking seven hour bus journey from Preševo in southern Serbia on October, 5, 2015.

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Refugees from Syria disembark from a coach near the Croatian border in northern Serbia after a 7 hour bus ride from Preševo in the south, on October 7, 2015.

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Refugees gather in a park near the central Bu Station in Belgrade, Serbia, from where they will eventually continue their journey northwards into Europe, on October 6, 2015.
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Refugees wait outside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015.

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Refugees from Afghanistan wait outside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. Some people here said they waited for days to get a permit tor travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia.

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Murtaza, 12, from Kabul, Afghanistan, waits with his siblings outside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, in southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015.
His family and been waiting for two days to register for a 72 hours transit visa through Serbia.
Mohammad said "Our life in Kabul was very good but my father brought us her to make my future." He added, "There was a lot of war in Kabul, if there wasn't any war we wouldn't have left."

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Children from Aleppo sit on the street outside a registration centre for migrants and refugees in Preševo, southern Serbia, on October 5, 2015. After registering, the refugees here are given a 72-hour permit to travel onwards through Serbia to Croatia.
On their journey from Syria they endured a night rough sleeping in a forest, were squeezed into the back of a small van with 42 adults and 7 children. Their father, Khaled, said that while people in Serbia had been "very kind" to them, they were struggling due to a severe lack of infromation. Khaled said they had left Syria because there was no hope. "You can get used to war, but when you lose your hope you have to leave. It's not important if have you fear in your heart. When you lose hope you lose everything." He added. "Syrians are bleeding, they're dying. We pray to god that you can do something to help for our human rights. "

Leena, 3
Rose, 3
Ghaith, 5,
Akhmad, 4
Hanin, 11
Father Khaled

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