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The plight of pregnant women living on the streets, relying on sex work and eating from bins as asylum seekers in Greece has been highlighted by Manchester-based volunteers, including former Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh.
CRIBS International is the brainchild of mum Sally Hyman, a language teacher from Saddleworth. Sally launched the charity in 2016 after helping at a camp on the Greek island of Euboea.
They support 22 women and families with seven flats in Athens for single mums and families from Cameroon, Afghanistan, Syria, the Congo, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. The lifeline charity health workshops, organise food distributions and runs a Free Shop where people can get clothes, sanitary products, nappies and toys.
Sally, 63, said: “We aim to provide housing and social support to women in need, and help for women in childbirth. Otherwise these women would be on the streets, relying on sex work and eating out of bins.
"Just next door to us we have British tourists enjoying so-called idyllic Greece with no idea of what the government is putting these people through.” Rachel Summerscales, from Mossley, Tameside, is a prolific volunteer for CRIBS and joined both Sally and Julie on an emotional trip to Lesbos this week.
Rachel told the Manchester Evening News that the charity operates on a shoestring. She said: "We have one month's rent in the bank at any one time, with increasing bills."
She says the situation for these women is dire. "They are forgotten about and that is in Europe I don't know how it has got to such an inhumane situation. From a humanitarian position we can just help a few people.
"The women we help need to be in last trimester or have a baby and we house women until their baby is 12
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