“This was breakfast today,” writes camp resident from Syria in temporary camp #Mavrovouni on #Lesvos.
“If a family has children, milk is added. For elderlies, this is all they get.”
- “What can you put on the bread?”
- “Nothing. I rely on people f. outside the camp to help.” /1

Background: As an approved or denied refugee you get cut off financial help & further legal help, while some have to remain in camp (e.g. in case of appeal). This means for 1000s of people inside the Greek camps to be dependent on exactly the amount of water & food received. /2

The situation can become even worse once outside the camps and deprived from any safety net: As the EU-funded Filoxenia Programme, sheltering vulnerable refugees has ended in December 2020, an increasing number of people has, yet again, be forced to sleep rough in public. /3

There are limited to no possibilities for people to access employment or social welfare schemes, while stranded in e.g. Athens or Thessaloniki for the first time, many don’t even have access (& don’t get enough assistance) to create a bank account, get a tax number etc. /4

In the past three weeks (with the governments efforts to decongest the island) over 1.100 refugees have left #Lesvos on the ferry to the port of Piraeus. Many of those report, to remain in peril conditions on the mainland, where yet, another fight for survival is starting. /5