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Alma Ramos, bringing food to sex workers in El Salvador amid pandemic

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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."

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