Cardboard city slum – news bulletin

Cardboard city slum

An international aid agency is seeking health care for vulnerable immigrant workers in Southern Italy who are living in make-shift cardboard homes.

Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF), who assist the vulnerable migrants with distribution of sleeping bags and hygienic kits, say the living conditions in the settlements are very poor.

Neena Dhaun reports.


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  1. Where are these homes located?
  2. What are they getting respite from?
  3. What are the conditions like?
  4. How are they being treated by their employers?
  5. How much are they paid?
  6. How long has the speaker wanted to come to Italy?
  7. What made him decide to come?
  8. What is this city called?
  9. What sort of work do these Africa workers seek?
  10. Where in Italy is this region?