Report from the Korinthos camp

Hundreds of immigrants stay at the Korinthos camp. Since the suspension of cash card to whomever has asylum and residence permit everyone is in a serious condition of poverty. Baby milk and pampers have become luxury goods that almost none can safely secure. At the same time, during the covid-19 there is no institution that can provide lessons for Greek or English either inside or outside the camp. Even though the whole population of the camp posses legal documents it experiences an almost total exclusion. All migrants have no access to medicine, extremely difficult access to hospitals and they hardly every find accommodation in Athens. From our standpoint, as part of a larger attempt to establish relationships between natives and immigrants and common struggles for accommodation, health care, access to education, financial support and equal labor rights for all, against the anti-immigration war that is waged by the Greek state and the European Union. In that context, we have realized a series of visits and talks with the immigrants in Korinthos and other camps. Simultaneously, as a token of actual solidarity we handed in first aid goods