
Since our last update, a lot of change has happened in Nea Kavala.
A few weeks ago, we heard that there were going to be many new arrivals brought to the camp from the overcrowded arrival islands. That they wouldn’t be put in containers but instead tents. Watching these individual tents, like those of 2016, go up in preparation was surreal. We had about a week’s notice before the new arrivals came – approximately 500 people, over a couple of days -from many different countries, including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon. Single men and women, and many families with young children We were able to learn from the experience of having a mass influx last summer and be better prepared this time around, with some general information about our services and activities in some of the different languages – Farsi, Arabic, French, Kurdish.
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