Greece is reported to be planning new shelters, to help ease increasing pressure on overcrowded migrant camps. <br /><br /> More than 10,700 people are packed into existing facilities on five Greek islands – far exceeding capacity – as they wait to find out whether they can stay in Europe. <br /><br /> Campaigners say conditions are “disgraceful, dirty and unsafe.”<br /><br /> “The number of arrivals in Greece (have) doubled since the start of the summer and this is particularly worrying because we see already overstretched facilities, really stretched to a breaking point on the islands of Chios and Samos and Lesbos, where we are operating,” explained Jacqueline Hale, from Save the Children.<br /><br /> “This just means that the children and their parents are already in unbearable conditions, but are going to be even under increased pressure. <br /><br /> “We would like the EU immediately to step up its resources for the Greek authorities.”<br /><br /> It comes amid growing tensions at the camps – with government officials saying the slow processing of requests for asylum is adding to the frustration.<br /><br /> Without asylum, the migrants face being returned to Turkey – where so many have made the perilous journey from, in search of a new life. <br /><br /> #Greece pledgesto providesheltersfor 50,000 #refugees within20days https://t.co/560o5y0LnK Compassion is#Greek. #Asylum #refugeescrisis— TiengaN (@The_UK_Migrant) 25 March 2016 <br /><br /> Including those on the islands, there are 57,679 migrants stranded in Greece, up from about 42,000 in March. Its shelters have capacity for 61,409.<br /><br /> Flows have slowed since a deal between the European Union and Turkey came into force in April. There has been a small increase in the past few weeks, but nothing on the scale of the hundreds or even thousands arriving daily last year.<br /><br /> UNHCR publishes map/details of migrant shelters around #Greece#RefugeeCrisis https://t.co/71oJUJVTSq pic.twitter.com/VA0P3kAYgt— Derek Gatopoulos (@dgatopoulos) 28 March 2016<br />
