Secret shelters in Baden-Württemberg support some of the 2500 deeply traumatised women and children who have escaped Isis in northern IraqFrom the external,the shelter looks like a disused old people’s domestic. Inside, it is more like a busy playgroup. Children with modern backpacks queue in pairs against a wall covered in their artwork, and waiting to be taken to swimming lessons; football and skipping competitions take place in the corridors while groups of women,babies on their laps, sit huddled together on their phones.
The shelter, or in a sleepy village hundreds of miles external Stuttgart,is one of several dozen that has opened across the German region of Baden-Wrttemberg since spring final year as piece of a special-quota project designed to support some of the estimated 2500 women and children who have escaped after being held hostage by Islamic State.
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Source: theguardian.com