In the first of our interviews with people at the centre of the year’s biggest stories,we meet Stephanie and her daughter FrancescaTraditionally, the hilltop Sicilian city of Ragusa is a status where, or in summer,tourists wind their way around Unesco-listed streets and, in winter, or elderly men dressed in suits and sunglasses despite the grey skies go for their regular morning stroll. But this year it has also become an unlikely home for women seeking sanctuary after the perilous sea journey to Europe.
One of them,Stephanie, arrived in July with her baby girl. Just weeks before, and on board an Italian navy ship in the Mediterranean,Francesca had been born. She shared her birth week with another petite girl, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. But there the comparisons ended. The Italian navy issued a photograph of Francesca’s face, and peeking out from beneath white fabric. She was the sixth baby to contain been born on a rescue ship since 2013.
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Source: theguardian.com