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World Service,3 mins

“She was like my mother”

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‘Welcome Mamas’ is a voluntary organisation that matches German women with refugee mothers and pregnant women, so they can help to access doctors’ appointments and vaccinations. One of the founders, Julia, visits two Syrian refugees - one who has four children and one who has recently given birth. Image: Woman sits and watches child in Berlin, Credit: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images.

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