Description
Added on the 22/05/2020 02:00:40 - Copyright : AFP EN
Unreported Europe travels to Amsterdam to meet the sex workers struggling to survive under lockdown.
"I don't go back to work with a smile on my face but I have no choice," one sex worker told Euronews.
San Salvador, Jun 12 (EFE).- (Camera: Vladimir Chicas) "Us sex workers won't die of COVID-19, but of hunger", with this phrase as a mantra, Alma Ramos is bringing food to her colleagues in San Salvador, as the pandemic leaves the 45,500 women sex workers in the country without a proper income.FOOTAGE OF ALMA RAMOS IN HER HOUSE AND GIVING FOOR TO COLLEAGUES.SOUNDBITES OF RAMOS.Translation:"I'm only helping those I can, the ones I can reach.""Discrimination and stigma are always there.""I lost my shyness because if I ask for something for myself I get embarrassed, but I don't for my colleagues.""My colleagues were worried, they had nothing to eat.""My colleagues don't have food.""Now I go to houses, I don't work in a business or a corner."
Lima, Jun 2 (EFE).- Either dodge stay-at-home orders and seek out customers on the street or go without the money needed for food, medicine and rent. That is the crossroads faced by sex workers in Peru's capital, who have been compelled to ask for handouts and prepare communal pots of food to evade hunger.(CAMERA: Fernando Gimeno y Miguel Angel).
Despite being illegal, undeclared work is common in Italy, with over three million people trapped in this form of precarious employment.
"C'est une grosse surprise et une très belle reconnaissance. Je voulais montrer qu'on peut faire une cuisine différente, qui a du goût, qui a du sens" : à 41 ans, la cheffe Claire Vallée décroche la première étoile Michelin accordée à un restaurant vegan, pour son établissement ONA (Origine Non Animale) à Arès, en Gironde. Une consécration pour ce restaurant qu'elle a monté en 2016 grâce à une campagne de financement participatif, sans prêts bancaires classiques.