In Spain, food aid queues grow as poverty outpaces 2008 crisis | Malay Mail

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MADRID, May 27 — Accepting food handouts for the first time has become reality for thousands in Spain where poverty has soared during the epidemic, echoing the 2008 crisis from which many have barely recovered. Jacqueline Alvarez, 42, is picking up basic foodstuffs in the working-class...

Cristina and Maria Jose, volunteers with the Nazaret Association, carry food rations to be distributed to people in need in Madrid on May 24, 2020. — AFP pic

For many people, it is the first time they’ve had to seek help, like Alvarez who has three children and says neither she nor her husband have had any money coming in for the past two months. In Spain, the lockdown has hammered an economy with one of the highest rates of unemployment in the eurozone, second only to Greece.“This situation has impacted, first and foremost, people who were already vulnerable before the pandemic,” acknowledged Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, “those who had not managed to recover from the effects of the crisis in 2008.”

So far, the organisation has helped more than 1.5 million people since the start of the lockdown in mid-March, “about 68 per cent of whom have never come before”, she says.

 

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