next camp

Ideas is transferred to another refugee camp, for the fourth time since he is in the Netherlands. In this camp people stay for a longer period of time. The scent of transpiration, exotic food and lysol (archaic cleaning product) is everywhere. In this room, about 25 square meters, Ideas stays with 3 others. For how long? There are people who live here for more than 2 years, waiting foor appropriate housing.

account

The day the Austrian authorities announced 71 people -probably all Syrian- died in the abandoned truck on the highway between the Hungarian border and Vienna, Ideas -for the first time in his life- gets money from an ATM. From his own bank account.

status

Yesterday Ideas got his status. The Ideas team congratulates Ideas and hopes he gets the opportunity to work on his dreams. We will keep you posted on what happens next.

lawyer

Today, Ideas starts his procedure for real. He has his first meeting with his lawyer. Good luck Ideas!

food in refugee camp Gilze Rijen

Ideas gets a message from the AZC in Gilze Rijen. 

The people there get ready made food that's hardly edible instead of a budget to make their own food. Like in a lot of places elsewhere. They asked the mayor to help them. He threathened to withdraw their applications for a refugee status. Meanwhile the food ends up in containers. 

There has to be a simple solution.

Ideas says thanks

shocking

This shocking picture is on the Syrian WhatsApp group: a refugee hung himself in Berlin after his application for his refugee status failed because his fingerprints had been taken along the road to Germany. According to the 2nd treaty of Dublin a refugee has to apply for 

asylum in the first country of entry in the EU (where fingerprints have been taken for the Eurodac database).