"Mom does not have the money for the funeral of his child from one month to the morgue"

"They told me at the funeral they wanted 750 euro, but I replied that I had not got them." And 'the story of Maryam desperate, Moroccan 29 years of Cologne (Brescia), which does not have enough money to bury her child, died 15 months after birth. And so the little one, who was born prematurely as a result of a car accident suffered by the woman, is a month in the hospital morgue Pope John XXIII in Bergamo.

"Since March I lost my job in a cleaning company and I live on the dole, that does not come to 600 Euros. My partner has an odd job and struggling to get by himself, my brother does not work," said the young mom. Maryam had initially given to social workers of the hospital, who were interested in each other.

Later he asked the City of Cologne, the town where she lives since he was a teenager, you can proceed with a "funeral of poverty": from Bergamo was in fact sent a reminder to the Brescia town hall. Maryam was convened December 1 Shared with the tax return of the family: "They told me that I had an income and a house, and that more than 250 euro could not give me."

"But I - continued - with unemployment can not even make ends meet and the house where I live was foreclosed and auctioned after five years ago I stopped paying the mortgage. I felt humiliated: ask help to bury my son, not to change the car. in eight years, the City of Cologne I never asked for subsidies. Rather I hungry, but my son does not leave him in a cell refrigerator. They are also willing to bury him in Bergamo , so we save on the cost of transportation. "

For its part, the City of Cologne has confirmed that the contribution is given by income Isee and that, in this case, the office found no grounds to proceed with a "funeral of poverty." "I can assure you that we act with the utmost transparency," is the comment of Mayor Carlo Chiari.

Please help us to raise the necessary funds for burial, we'll be grateful.

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