May 2019 | Reception crisis in Northern Greece: three years of emergency solutions sometimes. Others hurt themselves. No one cares. The police does not intervene. When we call them for help, they just say they will come, but they never do.” In February 2019, Jonas was notified by camp management, that he had to leave the camp by the end of March along with a dozen other African refugees. “They knocked my door and told me the Ministry had decided people who got asylum before July 2017 should leave the camp… . They said we’d get our Cash-Card for another three months and then it would be cut. If we denied leaving the camp, they’d cut the CashCard immediately and call the police to take us out by force. They gave us the information paper about these decisions. That was all. No advice on integration or other information to help us. Since then people are going crazy. We did not expect that and then one day we are just told to go. We asked them where we should go and what we should do. They said, they don’t know. The Ministry didn’t tell them. Then they gave the usual answers: ‘Wait.’ ‘We will see…’ … I have an AFM and an AMKA, but I could not get any other papers until now. I don’t know how to do that and no one seems to want to help us in that. We don’t know the system. I just understood I could not do things without having a proper address. Some of us left the camp directly after they heard the news and they are trying to find solutions in Athens or Thessaloniki. I want to go to the school because my plan is to study medicine. At the moment I am still in shock. But what should we do? I will not give up. I will keep my head above water!” At the end of March 2019, Jonas had to leave the camp and became homeless. ROMEO S.* (41) AND HIS PARTNER NOELLA S.* (31) 5. Romeo S.* (41) and his partner Noella S.* (31)cxxix are from Congo DRC. They met in Moria and fell in love. Noella got subsidiary protection but Romeo has been rejected and waits on his appeal. During the meeting with RSA, Noella was six months pregnant. Both had experience different forms of violence in their home country and suffer from mental health issues and physical health problems. Romeo told us: “I arrived on Lesvos in October 2016 and my girlfriend two months later. We were both transferred to Nea Kavala in March 2017. Our asylum interviews took place in summer 2017 in Thessaloniki. My answer came a year later. In Moria and Nea Kavala we don’t get medical help or psychological therapy. We were visiting both a psychologist in Nea Kavala at some point, but he left. There is no gynaecologist and my girlfriend needs regular check-ups for the pregnancy. The living conditions here are bad. We asked for a flat three months ago, but they told us to wait. I have to accompany my girlfriend everywhere to protect her. Women don’t feel safe here. They risk being molested or even raped. How can we build a future with our young family when even my stay in Greece is not sure? I am thinking a lot about that. We are both stressed about the day of birth. We cannot communicate with the ambulance. We have to inform the police to call them, but we https://rsaegean.org/en/reception-crisis-in-northern-greece-three-years-of-emergency-solutions 25