(44) ‘No Food, No Water, No Masks and No Gloves’: Migrant Farm Workers in Spain at Crisis Point.
Migrant workers on Spanish farms that provide fruit and vegetables for UK supermarkets are trapped in dire conditions under lockdown, living in cardboard and plastic shelters without food or running water. Thousands of workers, many of them undocumented, live in settlements between huge greenhouses on farms in the southern Spanish provinces of Huelva and Almeria, […]
(43) Mobile Camel Library Keeps Ethiopian Children From Forced Labor.
In a remote part of Ethiopia, one charity has come up with a novel way of protecting children that are out of school because of the coronavirus pandemic from forced labor – camels bearing books. Ethiopia closed its schools in mid-March and sent more than 26 million children home, where experts say they are at […]
(42) Rohingya Refugee Camp Hit By Covid-19 Outbreak.
Some 15,000 Rohingya refugees are now under Covid-19 coronavirus quarantine in Bangladesh’s vast camps, officials said on Monday, as the number of confirmed infections rose. Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped settlements, housing almost a million Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar, and officials had restricted movement to […]
(41) In Poor Countries, The Lockdown Cure Could be Worse than Disease.
To state the obvious, it is harder to impose a lockdown in a poor country than in a rich one. In huge cities such as South Africa, Lagos, Mumbai or Manila, instructing people to stay at home is to confine millions to cramped housing. In the slums where up to half the population may live, […]
(40) ‘We Will Starve Here’: India’s Poor Flee Cities in Mass Exodus.
Tired, hungry day-wage laborers march to villages on foot and the migration risks spreading virus across India during lockdown. In small groups and large crowds, through inner-city lanes and down interstate highways, hundreds of thousands of India’s poorest are slowly making a desperate journey on foot back to their villages in a mass exodus unseen […]
(39) This Man Feeds 1200 Orphans Every Month Through His Viral Food Channel.
Khwaja Moinuddin is a former journalist, who has worked with a prestigious Telugu channel and is now following his passion for making others happy with his culinary skills. From delicious curries to mouth-watering cakes, he makes everything in large quantities with a motive. Their motive behind large quantities is to feed as many kids as […]
(38) More Than 4 Million People in Canada Struggle to Get Enough to Eat.
Canadians who cannot afford regular meals are more likely to die early, according to a study released on Monday, showing that people are dying from hunger even in wealthy countries. The study of more than half a million Canadian adults found that hunger was linked to raised mortality from all causes of death except cancer. […]
(37) Is Your Phone Tainted by the Misery of the 35,000 Children in Congo’s Mines?
The field research shows that children as young as six are among those risking their lives amid toxic dust to mine cobalt for the world’s big electronics firms. This cobalt is found in every lithium-ion rechargeable battery on the planet – from smartphones to tablets to laptops to electric vehicles. It is also used to […]
(36) 1.4 million Venezuelans had Crossed into Colombia on Foot to Escape Poverty
The Venezuela humanitarian crisis is projected to become the largest refugee crisis in the world by 2020. As Venezeula’s neighbor, Colombia has become home to more Venezuelan migrants than any other country in Latin America. The most vulnerable of these Venezuelan migrants are arriving in Colombia on foot; thousands cross the border into Colombia every […]
(35) Demand for Cheap Labour Driving Human Trafficking Tragedy of 39 Deaths Driven by Debt.
The grim discovery of 39 Chinese nationals, who died as they were being smuggled in the back of a truck into the UK, has put the spotlight on human trafficking and slavery, and experts say the demand for cheap labour around the world means it’s unlikely to dent this deadly trade. The victims suffocated when […]