May 2019 | Reception crisis in Northern Greece: three years of emergency solutions The Greek Army is responsible for site management and DRC provides site lxxxvi management support. DRC is also providing legal information sessions, individual legal lxxxvii counselling and representation . Furthermore, the organisation is involved in the provision of non-formal education for school aged children, youth and adults. At the time of RSA’s research in August 2018, EODY was tasked with providing primary health care to the camp’s residents as well as the identification of those vulnerable. However, there was only one army doctor seeing residents during weekday mornings. According to the protection monitoring tool of UNHCR in September 2018, people with special needs were not being identified in a timely manner and referred to services and there were no lxxxviii special services for victims of torture. During the period of RSA’s research, services provided in the camp were limited (i.e. legal aid and language lessons). As of September lxxxix 2018, less than 60 % of the children living in the camp attended formal education. Protests started in Koutsochero shortly after the arrival of the first groups of residents in 2016. They demanded to be transferred in better places and denounced the bad living xc conditions. In the past three years, protests continued over specific problems such as delays xci xcii in loading Cash-Cards and the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl . The substandard xciii living conditions also remained a major source of anger. Interviewees spoke about their concerns about security in the camp including fights between residents and reported criminality and drug / alcohol abuse. ”As a lone mother I feel afraid when the men are getting drunk and when they fight. Once they burnt some containers down. This is not a life here. I feel that at any time a stranger could enter my container. Every moment I feel fear. Fear of the other next door, who I don’t know. Fear from all these single men living around us. I feel afraid for the health of my son who is ill and we are far from the hospitals. I feel afraid to get stuck here. … I tell you what I feel every night before I sleep. My feeling is being scared, being alone, hugging my son with my blanket in one room where there is no security, no people to solve problems, and I am missing my husband.” xciv Arwa R.* (27) Kurdish from Syria, Koutsochero camp The single mother lives with her ill 6-year-old boy in Koutsochero. She has applied for family reunification with her husband in Germany. “In Koutsochero … we are all in a very bad situation. … The new ones all have their interviews in 2020 and 2021. The old ones who are recognized have to be out soon. Also, a lot of people are rejected … A lot of people [transferred from the islands] are ill. The mental health of people here is worse. First of all because they were already psychological sick, because of their problems and also because the fights and problems between refugees.” Basr G.* (29) xcv from Iraq, recognized refugee and victim of torture, Koutsochero camp https://rsaegean.org/en/reception-crisis-in-northern-greece-three-years-of-emergency-solutions 16