Donations for flood victims lie in the church of St. Nicholas and Rochus in Mayschoss, Germany, July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Andreas Kranz
AHRWEILER, Germany (Reuters) - Syrian volunteers have rushed to towns hit by Germany's most devastating floods in 60 years to clean them up and renovate homes, drawing on their experience with catastrophes in their homeland to help the country that took them in.
Germany, which lost at least 180 lives in the flooding earlier this month, opened its borders in 2015 to more than 1 million migrants, many of them Syrians, fleeing war and poverty.
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