IRAQ: Hundreds forced to scavenge for food in garbage bins
BAGHDAD, 17 October 2007 (IRIN) - Barira Mihran, a 36-year-old mother of three, scavenges every day in other people’s dustbins in Baghdad for leftovers on which to feed her children.
Widowed and displaced by sectarian violence, the unemployed mother said she had no other way of providing for her children.
“In the beginning it was […]
