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Arrival successful!   Got here a week ago, Sunday the 29th after a long old journey. Settling in to working with Lifting Hands (the NGO I’m volunteering with) and slowly getting a grasp of the situation here in Greece - in the mainland it seems as if a lot of the camps are switching from crisis mode into more long term management. Yazidis continue to arrive at the camp, news of the dire situations at camps on the Greek islands has spread (many of these islands have now become detention centres within themselves with access to the mainland being granted to refugees) and as a result people are starting to make the journey to central Greece overland - a group recently arrived having walked from Turkey.   Due to Lifting Hands not being granted access to inside the walls of the camp, it’s headquarters have been set up 100m from the camp’s entrance. It’s a bizarre situation - I’ve been using my van to deliver food and hygiene goods to the camp; I reach the entrance and whats