Seeking Security

Every day, for the past two weeks, Paulina Bownik has driven a 45-mile round trip from her home in Białystok, in northeastern Poland, to the border with Belarus. Bownik, a general practitioner, carries boxes of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories that she hopes to give to 32 Afghans stranded at the border.The group has been there for almost a month, unable to move, as soldiers and border police from both countries stand guard. The camp is located at the edge of a forest near the Polish village of Usnarz Gorny, but Poland says it’s on Belarusian territory. Belarus, on the other hand, says the migrants are on Polish soil.Related: EU's top migration official calls for global response to help Afghans in order to avoid migrant crisis in EuropeOfficials from both countries have told the migrants they should apply for asylum in the opposite nation.On the first day Bownik drove to the camp, Polish border guards stopped her.“I asked the soldiers if I could give them the medicines and they told me that this is not poss