In the dark alleys of central Athens, young women prostitute daily for five euros, their only way to obtain their daily fix. A new drug named ''sisha’’ ( also called the ‘’ drug of the poor’’), that costs 3-5 euros per dose and is consisted by barbiturates and other ingredients like alcohol, chlorine or even battery fluids, is now an easy and cheap solution for calming their addiction. Many of them are forced to have sex without any precautions, being vulnerable to all kind of venereal disease. Incidents of violence are also quiet often during their meetings with all kind of men, very often leading to rape.
''Just for five euros, just for five euros'' she whispered. During the past 3 years, everyone in Greece searches around what has changed during crisis. But no one can see what remained the same or simply they cannot see it. For many months I was walking in central Athens without taking any pictures, just watching the changes, which in fact are invisible but so important to me, The center of Athens changes, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, but some things remain the same and scare me. In the dark alleys of central Athens, young women prostitute daily for five euros, their only way to obtain their daily fix. A new drug named ‘’sisha’’ ( also called the ‘’ drug of the poor’’), that costs 3-5 euros per dose and is consisted by barbiturates and other ingredients like alcohol, chlorine or even battery fluids, is now an easy and cheap solution for calming their addiction. Many of them are forced to have sex without any precautions, being vulnerable to all kind of venereal disease. Incidents of violence are also quiet often during their meetings with all kind of men, very often leading to rape. As sweep operations remain the only plan of the government, the problem will keep on existing. Everything has changed and will change again but these women of the city center won't. They will just remain scared and imperishable in time.