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counsel . I was sent to another office , and the girl there re-sent me to the Ministry of Domestic Trade ( MINCIN , in its Spanish acronym ). I posed my problem and produced the letter sent to the Vice-President of the People ' s Council . The official who attended me told me to wait for a response within 30-60 days . Twenty days later , they called me to get the ration card ." In 2015 , Kirenia had two daughters . Although she was separated from the father , the lack of housing forced her to crash in his place with the girls . Forced coexistence made the relationship difficult to define . Kirenia became pregnant again . A baby boy was born in September 2015 . " They detected a cerebral palsy caused by bacteria . My oldest daughter is asthmatic and allergic , and the other one has a heart murmur ," Kirenia specifies . The place of the father had a single room with a bed where she slept with the girls ; the male child slept in a crib and the father , on the sofa . He was building to enlarge the habitable space , but Kirenia knew that it was not hers . She must leave the shelter and have her own place . For that , she must have stayed at least ten years in a shelter . Santa explained that " even if a house
falls down , its occupants couldn ’ t be directly relocated in another house ; they must firstly spend the legal term at a shelter ." A neighboring family was eligible for housing in 2015 . Alina had been 21 years in the shelter and shared her cubicle ( only one bed ) with her son , who is asthmatic and suffers from two heart diseases . In another cubicle , one of her daughters lives with her child and in another one , another daughter with her husband . In December 2014 , a three-bedroom house was offered to all of them . Alina would still sleep with her son or one of the two must sleep in the living room , but her married daughter wants to have her space and Alina understands it .
To stop sleeping on a sofa for sleeping on my own bed The story of Vivian , a 61-year-old lady also interviewed by me in 2015 , is even more touching . She must have been sheltered since 1998 , when partial collapses occurred in the building where she lived , but there was no room for her in the shelters . He stayed in that uninhabitable dwelling for several years .
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