A Springhead woman who set up a charity to support pregnant refugees in Greece is approaching 10 years of running the project.

Sally Hyman set up CRIBS International alongside friend Laurie Davidson a decade ago this October, to support mothers and pregnant women in Greece who have fled conflict and disasters.

Sally, who lives in Springhead, had previously worked as a teacher for students learning English as a second language. She said she worked at "a whole series of schools in Oldham" and had "worked with asylum seekers all my life".

A volunteering trip to the Ritsona camp, about an hour and a quarter's drive from Athens, prompted her to act. She described women with no money sleeping on the ground in large canvas tents, on soil that hardened in the "30 degree sun".

The charity provides housing, health and feeding support, and help in navigating the country's asylum system, the process for deciding who can stay for safety reasons. It currently has six flats for the most vulnerable families who approach them, who can stay until their baby is up to 12-months-old.

Its free shop supports hundreds of families a month with clothes and supplies free of charge.

Last year, more than 48,000 people arrived to claim asylum in Greece, a drop of 12,000 from the year before.

Sally said support for mothers who were bottle feeding in the camps fell short. She said: "There was no supplementation for the women that were bottle feeding. There was some hot milk delivered, but it was just cow's milk."

CRIBS is now approaching its 10-year anniversary and is midway through planning a celebration in early October. The cost to run the charity usually reaches £10,000 a month, funded by donations, fundraising, and personal savings.

Sally said: "The future for CRIBS has always been shaky, and it has been for the past ten years." She added: "But it's work that's worth doing because if we can make the life of one woman good enough for her to be able to create a future for her children and herself that is not dominated by trauma, that is not dominated by poverty, is not dominated by forced sex work, then that's work worth doing, right?"