Highlights
To date, IOM Turkey has provided ten prefabricated cabins that are installed at reception points in Küçükkuyu, Dikili, Çeşme, Alaçatı, Kuşadası, Mordoğan. The cabins are used as changing rooms for female migrants and refugees, as well as children, rescued at sea. The cabins also provide storage space for NFIs, including hygiene kits, which are then distributed to those who have been rescued at sea.
In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, IOM has procured and donated medical equipment to the regional hospital in Gevgelija, which treats approximately 100,000 people from the area as well as migrants and refugees who are transiting or staying in the nearby centre and are in need of medical assistance.
On 31 March, the IOM Council Chair Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe of Belgium inaugurated a new IOM orientation and information centre for migrants in Agadez. The new centre was created to further support and coordinate with the current IOM transit centre in Agadez. The orientation centre will allow migrants to access information on all aspects of migration, advice on their rights, and all services available including shelter and medical assistance. Community mobilisers who work at the centre are also trained in counter-trafficking awareness and on 1 April, the first victim of trafficking was identified and referred to IOM’s protection unit for further assistance.
To meet the immediate needs of newly arrived migrants and refugees in Greece, IOM has begun distributing basic non-food items (NFIs) to those staying in recently established camps in the northern part of the country. On 4 April, IOM undertook the distribution of 2,500 NFI kits to all migrants and refugees currently being accommodated in Schisto Camp, close to Piraeus port in Athens.
In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, IOM has procured and donated medical equipment to the regional hospital in Gevgelija, which treats approximately 100,000 people from the area as well as migrants and refugees who are transiting or staying in the nearby centre and are in need of medical assistance.