No one organized them. No one paid them. But when thousands of migrants crossed the border from Morocco and were left without shelter or food on the streets of Ceuta, Spain, residents did not wait for instructions from anyone.
They took out what they had at home. Bottled water, bread, fruit, whatever they could manage. They loaded everything into their own cars and went out to look for those sleeping outdoors, while the city’s reception center was overwhelmed and could not keep up with so many people arriving at the same time.
There was no need for signs or campaigns. Just a neighbor, a bag of food, and the decision not to look the other way. Amid the chaos, that was the scene repeated street after street. Ordinary people, holding up with their own hands what institutions had not yet managed to cover.