May 2019 | Reception crisis in Northern Greece: three years of emergency solutions I cannot move around alone in the dark, because I am scared. People here are just waiting again to be brought somewhere better. But we feel no hope any more. We are far from life here. I want my children to go to school and learn something nice. We are left alone in nowhere land and no one is allowed to come to us and help. I feel my life has finished. I feel like I died.” In mid-September 2018 - after two weeks in Vaghiochori - the family got transferred to Filippiada camp. There, they felt it was even worse for their children because they never felt safe as there were more fights. Their biggest worry was that their daughter had not had yet an appointment for her operation. Being moved around from one marginalised camp to another made it more difficult for her to receive appropriate treatment. Transport to the hospitals, lack of interpreters and expenses for medicines created further obstacles. After their baby was born, the family was finally transferred to a flat. Alma said: “On the one side we feel safer now in our own flat, as we are protected from bad people and wild animals. At the same time, we feel also unsafe as we are left to survive and start a life without anything in our hands. We don’t know the language, the place and the system of life here”. https://rsaegean.org/en/reception-crisis-in-northern-greece-three-years-of-emergency-solutions 31