May 2019 | Reception crisis in Northern Greece: three years of emergency solutions We had a Cash-Card from Lesbos of 90 Euro per adult, but we haven’t received money yet since we moved. And there is no catering here. My husband needs to get an operation for his eyes. We escaped from hell in Syria and now we are in nowhere. I don’t trust life here. But we have no choice... .” ARWA R.* (27) 7. Arwa R.* (27) lives in Koutsochero with her 6-year-old boy. The Kurdish Syrian has applied to reunify with her husband in Germany. She arrived in Greece in February 2018. “When we arrived in Greece we got arrested. They brought us to a closed camp [Fylakio] where we stayed for 15 days. We were released with a white paper for six months but we said we wanted to apply for asylum. I registered my asylum then in Thessaloniki, in March 2018. In Koutsochero, I live in the old side of the camp … (where) the containers have all just one room. In the new side they have two rooms, but there are also containers that two families have to share. 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.” By the end of February 2019, Arwa was desperate. She told us that her family reunification has not yet been sent to the German authorities. She still suffers from the camp’s conditions: “Sometimes it is very calm, sometimes there are screams and noises. Then I just lock the door and wait. Nothing changed. My son is still ill. …. 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.” FILIPPIADA BAHA R.* (40) AND AMIR K.* (50) 8. Baha R.* (40) and her husband Amir K.* (50)cxxxi escaped from Iran with their son aged 16 and daughter aged 11. Amir is reportedly a victim of torture. He suffers from mental health issues and other health problems. Both children also have health problems. The family arrived from the land border with Serbia and got sent first from Diavata to Vaghiochori and from there to Filippiada camp. They had been in Greece for a month when they spoke to RSA at the end of last August. https://rsaegean.org/en/reception-crisis-in-northern-greece-three-years-of-emergency-solutions 27