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Brazil's Poorest Faced With Choice to 'Starve to Death or Die of COVID'


Brazil s Poorest Faced With Choice to Starve to Death or Die of COVID
Vulnerable communities face food insecurity amid a surge in coronavirus cases in Brazil.
By Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)  Coronavirus is spreading and deaths are mounting  but what most worries the leaders of Brazil s isolated and vulnerable communities is how on earth to feed people now government has pulled their main emergency aid.
Ivone Rocha is co-founder of Semeando Amor, a nonprofit that distributes basic staples to some of the very poorest people in Rio das Pedras, one of Rio de Janeiro s many favelas. ....

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'Starve to death or die of COVID' - stark choice for Brazil's poor


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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Coronavirus is spreading and deaths are mounting - but what most worries the leaders of Brazil’s isolated and vulnerable communities is how on earth to feed people now government has pulled their main emergency aid.
Ivone Rocha is co-founder of Semeando Amor, a non-profit that distributes basic staples to some of the very poorest people in Rio das Pedras, one of Rio de Janeiro’s many favelas.
For most of last year, they had received a decent government stipend to survive the pandemic, but that all ended with 2020, unleashing a frenzy of favela requests for food. ....

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