8 hours agoCoronavirus affects Switzerland, long line of people waiting for free food in Geneva
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Over 1,000 people have joined in waiting for free food packages on Saturday to one of the richest countries in the world. This represents the impact of the coronary epidemic on poor workers and migrants living without currency documents in rich Switzerland. People's turn is over [...]
People's turn is over a mile [1 km] long outside an ice sports hall, where volunteers have distributed over 1,500 packages to people who began to line up from five o'clock in the morning.
We have empty pockets at the end of the month. We need to pay bills, insurance, all of it”, said Ingrid Berala, resident of Geneva who came from Nicaragua and works part-time. This is great because there's food for a week, it's a relief for a week... I don't know what the next week is going to be”, Berala told Reuters.
In the country of about 8.6 million people, in 2018 there were 660,000 poor people, according to Caritas, especially the self-friendly parents and those who have a low educational level that cannot be found at work, deliver time.
Over 1.1 million people are endangered by poverty, which means they have 60 percent less than average income - 6,538 Swiss francs for full - time workers in 2018.
