I am scared all the time. I go inside, I close the door. I can’t say I lock the door because there are no locks on the doors. I am so scared when I want to wash my hair or something, I am terrified. We have one room for the four of us, it’s a bedroom, it's a living room, it’s where the children’s school clothes are, it’s where the plates and utensils are. One room for everything. I haven’t been able to speak to or see the [camp] manager in months; the air-conditioning isn’t working and we are suffocating here. My children are suffocating. They need a good sleep. This is like a very bad prison. All these holes, lots of insects come in from here. The conditions are terrible. [The authorities] claim that they have put in a huge amount of funds to improve the property, to fix these rooms or buildings, but they haven’t.” Asha, Ritsona camp Asha is a young Somalian woman in Ritsona camp. She has received a rejection on her asylum claim and is currently submitting a subsequent application. She has been living in the camp since September 2023, after being transferred from Lesvos where she lived for one month. “Since I was transferred to Ritsona in September last year I haven't had access to cash or food in the camp, because my asylum claim was rejected. The family I’m sharing my container with share their food with me, that’s how I am able to eat. Sometimes my only option is to go to the rubbish and get the food from there. Everyone is mixed in Ritsona. We are about seven people sharing a container, we share a kitchen and bathroom. The other people are all old, there is one woman with mobility issues. It’s crowded, it’s noisy. I live with old women who are unwell, who need medical treatment. I feel like it’s better to place all the old people in one place and all the other young adults or minors in another place, so that there won’t be any conflicts. If it’s too hot during summer, I’m not able to turn on the air conditioning because of living with old women. They are always telling me to turn it off because they feel very cold. So I have no choice but to respect them and turn it off.” When we arrived at Ritsona, it was very cold. For the first night we didn’t have clothes, we didn’t have mattresses, blankets, bedsheets, nothing. Other Somalis who lived in the camp provided us with those things.” 45