Unite Here! union members circle the US Capitol during a car caravan for racial and economic justice in Washington June 17, 2020. — AFP pic
AFP met people in France, Mexico, Ukraine, Spain, Colombia and the United States, who already are, or fear they soon will be, without work and spoke of their despair, sacrifices, dashed hopes and fears for the future.“I've slipped into a state of insecurity,” says Frenchman Xavier Chergui, 44, who for 10 years has been a temp maitre d', filling in at Paris restaurants when they were short staffed.
Although he's managed to keep up his €250 car loan repayments, the family's holiday in the south west is now off the cards, he said.But his wife is suffering from depression and he is just holding out for September when he hopes business will resume — virus permitting.With dreams of becoming a pilot, 26-year-old Colombian Roger Ordonez had been working as a flight attendant for Avianca since 2017 but studying to get his wings.
“It makes me a bit ashamed to ask for help,” the 52-year-old Honduran, who lives in the Spanish capital, said.As a domestic worker, she earned a monthly €480 until her employers in central Madrid let her go, the day after Spain's lockdown began.The whole family lives on about €600 in unemployment benefit that her daughter Alejandra, 32, receives after losing her job as a cook in a nursery which had to close during confinement.
Now she's living off savings and odd jobs. Last month, the mum of two teens, who also looks after her 73-year-old mother, made €600.“One thing I haven't cut is my psychotherapist,” she said. Since losing her job, she's had trouble sleeping and suffers anxiety.Marie Cedile dreads hearing that she'll be among those to lose their jobs at French shoe company Andre, which filed for bankruptcy on March 21 before going into receivership.
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