Tucked away on a side street behind London's Marylebone Station is a small church centre, which is home to a Barnardo's-run outreach service for parents and children affected by poverty. Over the past 10 years, the voluntary-funded Families in Temporary Accommodation Project has provided support, welfare-rights advice and play provision to more than 7,000 children and 3,000 homeless families living in some of the worst housing in the capital.
However, while the families live in similar types of accommodation, their histories are unique. Take lone parent Etelvina Leitao, 37, who has a seven-month-old baby girl called Vinnia.
Leitao came to the UK from Portugal in 2001 after her grandmother died.
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