The BBC recently broadcast a documentary called ‘Poor Kids’. This clip from the film graphically illustrates the link between damp and inadequate living conditions and poor health.
Paige from the BBC documentary, Poor Kids, © True Vision Productions
Ten year old Paige is popular and forthright, but she doesn’t like any of her friends to see where she lives. For most of her life it’s been in a damp infested flat in one of Glasgow’s tower blocks in the Gorbals.