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London 2012 Olympics: Ten to a room and one shower for 75 people: Inside the ‘slum’ camp for Olympic cleaners

They sleep in portable cabins, some of which have been leaking in the rain, at the campsite in East London
The bad weather has left the site flooded with stagnant water, forcing the cleaners to use abandoned crates as makeshift ‘stepping stones’

‘It is like a slum inside,’ says one worker from Hungary

Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound.

The campsite in East London, hidden [...]