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The Rūdninkai landfill camp is currently the largest migrant accommodation center in Lithuania.
Camp Vierchai does not queue
The Iraqi Muhammad likes to get up early and take a shower. Until there was a queue at them.
And queues can form quickly. The camp has three containers with showers. They have cabins with curtains.
In the morning going to the shower is better and because you will not know the influences of the camp. They not only make fun of those who wait, but they also go to the shower without queuing.
Muhammad says there is not enough warm water. In a day when there are more people, migrants sometimes even get angry about it. A person can bathe for about 10 minutes. After this time, the water begins to cool.
A piece of soap for five migrants
The man has no money to buy shampoo, so he washes his head with hand soap.
The camp staff provided the migrants with the necessary hygiene measures. But over time, they ended. Those who can afford soap, shampoo are bought in a mobile store.
But not everyone has the money. Iraqi Max said that sometimes five poor people share the same soap.
Expensive mobile tent
At approximately 10 am Max will pick up his breakfast. Upon arriving at the food distribution point, camp staff hand out boxes of food to the migrants.
Max received a slice of bar, a piece of cheese, sausage, and instant coffee for breakfast.
At the camp, the migrants receive free meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. For lunch, usually get a stew or meat with potatoes. For dinner, cottage cheese is often baked, porridge or soup with bread.
Muhammad does not complain about food, but there are few such people. Your colleague Max is not satisfied with the quality of the food and the small portions.
In the afternoon, Max goes with his friends to see the store arrive. She does not have a clear work schedule. A bus with essentials arrives at the camp in the afternoon and often leaves at dusk.
Muhammad and other Iraqis said that food was not available to everyone, especially now that migrants were running out of cash.
Bread in the store costs about 2 euros, eggs 1.5 euros, cigarettes from 5 to 7 euros.
Cans are also used instead of pots.
There is no kitchen in the camp. Max and his friends, like most of the camp’s residents, cook over the campfire. The men shop at the grocery store, sometimes using food from the camp for their meals.
Some have flower pots. They were handed over to the migrants by volunteers and camp staff. Max doesn’t have them, so he cooks with friends in cans or foil containers.
The camp has four electric kettles. Sometimes you have to wait half an hour to make tea or coffee.
At the end of the wood the clothes are burned
Max uses toilet paper and tree branches found around the camp to create a bonfire. Some migrants receive firewood from farm workers, but few are enough. The branches quickly snapped and were created from the camp’s trees.
To get to the branches above, the migrants tie a bottle of water to the rope and then throw it away. When the bottle is wrapped tightly around a branch, several of them catch and thus break a part of the tree.
Unable to find out what the camp residents were burning, they threw clothes, plastic utensils and the tent floor into the fire.
Praying in the cleanest place in the tent
Lots of free time in the camp. As a result, Max and his friends are sometimes overwhelmed by bad thoughts. They fled from life in Iraq, dreaming of Europe. But now they spend their days in Rūdninkai walking from one corner of the camp to another.
In his spare time, Max interacts with other migrants, reads books online, and watches movies.
In good weather, migrants play soccer. Several times during the night, men had built large fires, danced, and chanted around her.
Max is a Christian, he and his friends pray in their beds. There are no special places of worship in the camp. Max said Muslims set up places of worship in their tents.
Of the two leaves, the migrants install a small space. She prays alternately. The place of prayer is the cleanest and most orderly place in the store.
Muslim immigrants celebrate important religious holidays in one of the large tents.
Migrants run out of money and are replaced by services
Muhammad spent almost all the cash he had. The man complains that although the family has the money they want to send him, there is no way the money will get to him. Some migrants have bank cards that are only valid in Iraq and cannot be used to pay abroad.
Some migrants with international bank cards allow money to be sent to other camp residents. They charge a fee for this service.
When the money runs out, men trade their good phones for inferior ones with a cigarette accessory. Also chargers and headphones, which are missing in many camps.
Sometimes the residents of the camps also trade their food or cigarettes for their jobs. For example, he cuts hair, produces food, manages tents.
Looking for privacy hanging sheets
Max’s bed at the end of the store. An Iraqi stacks his belongings on an adjoining bed. The man jokes that he was lucky to have a little more space. Migrants often keep their belongings next to or under the bed.
Between 10 and 15 migrants usually live in a tent. People of different nationalities and religions often live together. They sleep in each meter: two folding beds arranged. Their space is often separated by hanging sheets between the beds. The camp staff gave the men sleeping bags, they don’t have pillows.
Each tent has a leader who is responsible for communicating with the officers and the general order of the tent.
There are no rose windows in the tents. Men charge phones and other gadgets in hot water basins or in showers and toilets.
Migrants say that sleeping in tents is already cold.
Max lives with eleven other men. Everyone agrees, everyone fixes his store space. The boys distribute other prep work. Max says that the rich don’t tend to run the tents. They pay the poor to cook with cigarettes or tastier food.
Leaders work for cigarettes
Migrants often interact with their compatriots or people of the same religion.
There are at least some more influential people in different groups and communities than others. Their position in the community is determined primarily by money and physical strength.
Mohhamed has friends in the camp, but sometimes he becomes the target of severe harassment. The man thinks, all because he is silent.
People with more money can buy more than just more products in the store. The richest men can shave at camp and hire others to cook, firewood, and other jobs for a couple of cigarettes.
The camp also employs “buyers.” These are the poorest men in the camp overnight. They watch over the environment and maintain order. The richest migrants often pay for cigarettes.
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