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Writer Madeleine Bunting continues her series looking at the emotional fallout of not having a place to call home – a predicament faced by around 70 million people worldwide.

In the third part of her series, the writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting explores what it means to have no place to call home. An estimated 70 million people around the world are believed to be homeless – and millions more live in such poor accommodation that in practical terms, they too fall into that category. Madeleine recalls her own experience of homelessness as a child and how her mother, trying to make a home for her children in someone else’s basement, was given new hope by a passing traveller woman.

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  • Wed 11 Mar 2020 22:45
  • Wed 23 Jun 2021 22:45

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