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Austrian housing project keeps refugees’ hopes alive

Topic
Immigration Civil liberties Refugees
Country/Region
Austria

04 January 2017

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"Is she religious? Does she have a philosophy? She shakes her head. It is simple humanity that has motivated her over a long career of caring for the less fortunate. “If someone comes, needing help, I do not tell them to go and see the Pope first.”

Frau Bock, who never married, lives modestly to the point of being ascetic. She has never had a holiday; indeed she doesn’t even have a passport. She thinks fashion is a waste of time and her only luxury is to go to the hairdressers."

See: Austrian housing project keeps refugees’ hopes alive (UNHCR, link)

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