Published on 07/11/2024 23:03
Updated on 08/11/2024 10:36
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Poverty: when families and their infants find themselves on the street
In France, at least 2,000 children are estimated to be living on the streets. They are more and more numerous and younger and younger. Emergency accommodation is overcrowded and it is not uncommon to see women sleeping in the street with their newborns.
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In France, at least 2,000 children, including infants, are believed to be living on the streets. They are more and more numerous and younger and younger. Emergency accommodation is saturated and it is not uncommon to see women sleeping outside with their newborns.
Night has fallen on Grenoble at the start of autumn. It's only 13°C. In a downtown square, a Nigerian couple and their four children. The youngest is carried under a blanket by his father. This is a newborn who is only 10 days old. The mother left the maternity ward the day before, her family has been living on the street for several weeks. The parents are homeless. The hospital knew their situation and kept the mother as long as possible. But after 10 days, due to lack of accommodation, the young woman had to return to the street with her newborn and her children.
In Lyon too, newborns live on the streets. Emergency accommodation is saturated and camps are multiplying. More and more families, sometimes with very young children, are outside due to lack of available places. According to a Unicef report, at least 2,000 children live on the streets in France. Among them, more than 450 are under 3 years old and some are barely a few days old.
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