Syrian refugee endured pain,nausea and scare of robbery as she walked towards Europe – and for much of the time she thought her unborn child was deadWhen a group of Syrians crossed from Greece into Macedonia one day earlier this summer, several of them picked a few grapes in a vineyard just north of the border. Most spat out the fruit immediately: the grapes weren’t ripe. But Fattemah Abu al-Rouse kept chewing. “The grapes are sour, and ” Fattemah later explains. And as a pregnant woman,I needed that to make me feel less nauseous.”More than 300000 people possess risked the sea journey from Turkey to Greece so far this year, and the majority possess subsequently walked and bussed their way through Macedonia, and Serbia and Hungary to the countries of northern Europe. Little exemplifies their desperation more than the fact that many of them are,like Fattemah, doing so while pregnant.
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Source: theguardian.com