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Migrants living at the Ħal Far open centre experience “freezing” temperatures and lack warm clothing, according to NGO Lifeline.
Representatives of the NGO, whose migrant rescue vessel was impounded in Malta pending an investigation into its registration, visited the centre to hand over winter supplies to residents, a spokesman said.
“With the rapid turnover of residents and continued disembarkations, it is important to us that we help improve the conditions of new arrivals who now include women and children in centres not designed to support family units,” he added.
The Times of Malta reported that a number of women were temporarily moved to the Ħal Far centre over the past few weeks due to the lack of space at Dar il-Liedna, in Fgura.
Volunteers found babies and children residing at Ħal Far too, the spokesman said, adding more than 200 blankets were given to the migrants at the centre.
NGOs and other quarters have often called for improved conditions at open centres. More recently, controversy has centred on diplomatic disputes over which country should accept migrants rescued at sea.
The latest case, in which about 30 migrants remain stranded at sea, have pushed the Maltese...