As Dr Pietro Bartolo, a doctor in Lampedusa, writes: "Saving lives cannot be a crime."
But sometimes we feel powerless in the face of life itself: the absurd life of the refugee camps.
Our doctors, who have worked on projects for refugees for years, sought to build a relationship with the refugee camps on Lesbos, in particular Moria and Kara Tepe. Our support focused on a project based on occupational therapy, education and sport, created by Eric and Philippa Kempson, two British people who have lived on Lesbos for 20 years.
Here is the "report" of one of our envoys, a doctor, from Moria.
"I left for Lesbos with a clear mind: I wanted to see for myself, free of preconceptions, the situation in the camp run with European funds.
You cannot enter Moria without a pass and an official escort, and for me, a street doctor from a small humanitarian organisation, it would have been impossible.
But Eric Kempson, a refugee rights activist on Lesbos, entrusted me to one of his co-workers from South Sudan who, having relatives staying in the camp, managed to get me inside through a hole in the fence.
An overwhelming emotion: children holding my hands and women taking me to their tents, happy to see that I cared about them, even if only with a smile, the only thing I had to give them in a world made of nothing. In Moria a very high percentage of children try to take their own lives, and some, sadly, succeed. This is a nothingness that annihilates.
Here, nothingness has a colour: the grey of the plastic sheets stretched over frames of sticks and worn cloth that are supposed to be the roofs and walls of houses that do not exist; the grey of the faces of children who have not eaten fresh vegetables for months; the grey of the blankets on the pallets that serve as floors; the grey hair of women who are still young.
In the end I notice that, on some stones that should also be grey, a rainbow has been painted. I smile. Beauty still exists, I think.
I worked in Rwanda during the genocide, in Syria, Kosovo and Congo during the wars, in Haiti, Nepal, Amatrice and L'Aquila during the various earthquakes, but… here it is worse. It is absurd, it is immoral.
Why do I say this?
Because the Moria camp, like the camps on the border between Syria and Turkey and like many other similar places, is the product of a Europe that funds nothing.
This, without preconceptions and with a clear mind, is what I experienced on Lesbos. Nothing. On Lesbos.
One of the most beautiful islands I have ever seen.
And, without doubt, the saddest."

Antonella Bertolotti, psychiatrist, Intermed ETS.