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Added on the 10/12/2019 12:04:49 - Copyright : BANG Showbiz
Khloe Kardashian has been paying for elderly people's food shopping amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Barcelona, Sep 9 (EFE) .- (Camera: EFE) The footballer of the Barcelona Football Club, Pedri, has changed his football clothing this morning for a volunteer suit to help distribute 80,000 kilograms of Canarian bananas to the Food Banks, a figure that corresponds to the kilometers traveled by the Spanish Soccer Team in the last European Championship.FOOTAGE OF PEDRI HELPING TO DISTRIBUTE THE BANANAS IN BARCELONA
Madrid, Jun 27 (EFE), (Camera: Manuel Única) .- While thousands of Madrid residents prepare their suitcases for a summer getaway after more than a year of restrictions due to the pandemic, another part of the population is still seriously affected by the economic crisis, so neighborhood associations, foundations and solidarity organizations ask for more donations to fill their pantries since they know that "hunger does not go on vacation."FOOTAGE OF FOOD BANKS IN MADRID
"The Last Dance" is the 2020 documentary about Michael Jordan's time with the Chicago Bulls. CNN reports that Jordan is donating some of the proceeds of the documentary to feed that nation's hungry. Feeding America is the nation's largest hunger-relief outfit. Jordan gave the charity $2 million, which comes as the pandemic is pushing an inordinate number of Americans experiencing hunger. "In these challenging times and in a year of unimaginable difficulty due to Covid-19, it's more important than ever to pause and give thanks."
Lisbon, Sep 18 (EFE), (Camera: Paula Fernández).- The pandemic has not only caused infections and deaths in Portugal but it has also lead to poverty. Thousands of workers with stable jobs who overnight they stopped earning money and now have to turn to charity to survive.According to data from the Portuguese Institute for Employment and Vocational Training, in July there were 407,000 people registered in the unemployment centres, 37% more than a year ago, although the figure is highly questioned by economists, unions and politicians who point out that the real unemployment rate is even higher.FOOTAGE OF FOOD BANK IN LISBON AND FAMOES PARISH IN ODIVELAS. SOUNDBITES OF:-ISABEL JONET, PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE FEDERATION OF FOOD BANKS: "In two months we received more than 60,000 people asking for help. It is a huge increase, incredibly huge. It happened overnight. We started to receive requests and more requests. There were days when we received 2,000 help requests. It was very distressing because we did not see that entities were able to respond to all these people.""They are people who had never experienced poverty and suddenly, from one moment to another, they were left with nothing. They had no money, not even a euro because they had nowhere to work. Their workplaces were closed. For example, we are talking about hairdressers, personal trainers, physical therapists, dentists, beauticians, domestic workers, street vendors, taxi drivers, Uber drivers ... "."A fifth of the population lives in a situation of poverty. This kind of poverty was traditionally more linked to age, people with low retirement pensions. A set of measures was implemented, such as the solidarity supplement for the elderly or the increase in lower pensions, but we still have people with pensions below 180 euros a month."-SOFIA MARTINS, COORDINATOR OF THE FOOD BANK AT THE FAMOES PARISH COMMUNITY CENTRE:"Before the pandemic, until March, the food bank helped 48 families from Pontinha and Famões. Nowadays, in August, they are about 140 families. There was a fairly significant increase due to the pandemic."-PAULO PINHEIRO, DIRECTOR OF THE FAMOES PARISH COMMUNITY CENTRE:"Poverty is not only visible, but it is always a kind of iceberg. There is a type of poverty outside, visible, and people take the initiative and turn to help. But there is also a group of families to whom it is very difficult to help because it is ashamed poverty, they are not used to it or they do not want to say publicly that they are overcoming (financial) difficulties."-ANA PAULA, NEIGHBOUR WHO HAS TURNED TO THE FOOD BANK:"My husband and my baby tested positive and I had to stay at home to take care of them. I was laid-off at work and during the pandemic, I could not leave home since I had to self-isolate after tested positive. I sought help by calling the City Council and the community centre."
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