Here are six stories from six corners of the world of people who saw their lives upended by the same invisible menace.The 33-year-old mother of five lost her husband two years ago and was left to make ends meet on just $2.50 to $4 a day from washing clothes in Nairobi’s Kibera, one of the world’s biggest slums.Neighbors aren’t going to work because of restrictions on movement, so they can’t afford her services. Even if they could, they don’t want her handling their laundry due to virus concerns.
Now the cart sits idle in the hall, and the home is stacked with textbooks as the couple try to home-school their lone school-age child, a 7-year-old son. “I am the breadwinner of the family. My children are toddlers. So they are the first things I thought about that day,” he said. Santos hasn’t had much time to dwell on his misfortune because he has to think about survival: Food, rent and paying down the debt on his motorcycle.
But his chances for work there are even dimmer. Chronic back pain means he can’t do the manual labor jobs many people work in the provinces. Hassan is one of 2 million who have applied. He’s grateful for that, but what he really needs is work. Otherwise, he fears, “there will be famine.”AMMAN, JORDAN Mohammed said residents usually help each other out in hard times, but borrowing from neighbors isn’t an option today. “The whole camp is without work now,” he said. “Everyone is broke.”
After being idled for weeks, they are now only partially getting back to work as some restrictions on drivers are eased.
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