Relief at last: A Basch Help volunteer makes deliveries in London
(Picture: ES Composite)“The lowest point of my life was when a cockroach fell onto my baby daughter’s arm while I was feeding her in our flat,” Faiza recalled. “She screamed and I had to smack it off her.”
The 26-year-old single mother was rehoused due to the infestation and put in a hotel in Willesden with just one double bed for herself and her three children — a newborn and two under three. There was only a shower so nowhere to bathe her children and the other rooms in the hotel were filled with single people, many smoking drugs and playing loud music through the night.
