“Five euros left and starting to panic”

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http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1517121-five-euros-left-and-starting-panic

As though they were afraid to sit down in the circle of chairs set out for the group therapy session, the harassed looking participants lean against the walls exchanging meek greetings. Perhaps they are put off by the prospect of admitting that they can no longer cope, that their debts have driven them to despair.

The icy atmosphere warms slightly when the facilitator finally arrives. It is 6 PM at the Ekpizo centre in downtown Athens which offers support to over-indebted consumers who can no longer make ends meet. “I have heard the same story so many times over the last 18 months,” says Lila Linardatou who works for Ekipzo.

A legal graduate, she offers advice to people attempting renegotiate payment schedules with their banks. “Our goal is to avoid the worst,” she says. Driven to the brink by the crisis, more than 6,000 individuals have already sought assistance from Ekipzo, an organisation staffed by lawyers, psychiatrists and psychologists, all of whom are volunteers.

The minutes go by and the participants seem more at ease. As a group, they bring together a wide range of experiences of over-indebtedness. Consumers who use one credit card to fund another, breadwinners who sink “up to their necks” in debt when they run into health problems, people who live in impossible circumstances hoping for a way out that they never find.

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1. Here's the problem right here:

"...which offers support to over-indebted consumers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H people who can no longer make ends meet."

Fixed that for them.