Art, sport steer young refugees to new lives

ATHENS - Jawad Ahmadi, an 18-year-old Afghan, reached the island of Lesbos a year ago with his older brother and cousin, believing Greece would be just a temporary stop on his way to Germany.

But just as he arrived, Europe's borders were shut, leaving him stuck in Greece and curtailing his European dream.

"For eight months, every day, I woke up without knowing what I was going to do that day," Ahmadi says. "I was going crazy."