Story of Sam Story of Machona Sam is a migrant in Greece living on the streets. His living conditions as a home‑ less person are rough, and during the pan‑ demic he has experienced additional hardship and stigmatization. Sam exemplifies this hardship through his struggles to access lavatories and washing facilities during the pandemic: “Corona has been a nightmare for the homeless as essential services shutdown, and I was not able to access toi‑ lets anywhere. I ended up with a urinary tract infec‑ tion and at the hospital due to the extreme pain. Overall, many people were kind and gave me food or money when they saw me alone on the street; oth‑ ers were very hostile when I wanted to access their toilet in cafes.” Machona, a male teacher and refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Uganda, provided an account of how ref‑ ugees are often blamed for spreading COVID–19. “Discrimination was there before COVID, but it has worsened. Let me give you an example from a set‑ tlement that holds almost one hundred and twenty-seven thousand refugees. There are twenty cases confirmed positive. So when people hear that you are a refugee, they think ‘so these are the peo‑ ple that are bringing COVID–19 in the host commu‑ nities’. We are facing such challenges.”