“Some days I feel very uncomfortable [in the camp], but some days I just make it work. I’ve been here for 10 months so it’s a lot. [My husband and I] were told that we would receive cash assistance after we were registered, but we didn’t receive any. Only my daughters receive cash assistance, but this is not enough for the whole family to live on. Before we received our decision we used to receive food from the camp, but now we get it from an NGO. We don’t even receive water from the camp. Since I arrived here, I’ve been struggling with psychological issues, but I haven’t been able to access any services. We don’t have access to legal support or to translators who speak our language. When we travel to Thessaloniki, we have to cover the costs. Sometimes the camp provides transport but it hasn’t been consistent - the ones before us did receive some assistance from the camp to go [to cities], but we did not, it differs from person to person. Before we were sharing our container with nine people, we weren’t comfortable at all. We had beds but they weren’t clean. The kitchen facilities were not working, we had to buy our own burners. We went a few times to the administration to complain about things not working, like the kitchen not working or the bathrooms. We were demeaned and spoken down to a lot by the administration.” Sabine, Kavala camp Sabine (not real name) is a 37 year old woman from Cameroon living in Kavala camp. She is waiting for a decision on her first asylum application and has a medical vulnerability. She has been living in the camp for almost three months, after being transferred from Samos CCAC where she lived for almost half a year. “When I arrived in the camp, I had a document from the doctor in Samos about my medical vulnerability. I gave it to the doctor in Kavala camp but they didn’t really take it seriously. I waited around one month and then I got quite angry, and I decided to ask for the person in charge. Eventually they took it seriously. The doctors on Samos told me to avoid salt in my meals, so I have to pay for every meal because I can’t eat the meals from the camp. I’m skipping most meals from the camp. In Samos they took me to the hospital every day, but here I need to go [by myself]. I have to pay for transport to the hospital in Kavala. When they prescribe something, I have to go and buy it. When I arrived, I was in a container which was really noisy, it wasn’t possible for me, it was causing headaches. We were seven in one room. I asked the camp manager to change and he did it. Now we are three. For privacy it’s okay because it’s only women, but there’s a baby and the mother takes two beds, I just have a small corner.” 43