Eldery – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Tue, 12 May 2020 12:45:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Eldery – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Venezuelans come together to provide food for the elderly of Caracas https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelans-come-together-to-provide-food-for-the-elderly-of-caracas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelans-come-together-to-provide-food-for-the-elderly-of-caracas Tue, 12 May 2020 12:45:35 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=3169

Yuraima Mercado, a member of the Program’s logistics, told Global Voices that following the closure of businesses and restaurants, as part of the social isolation measures, some restaurants were left with a significant amount of food that they weren’t able to sell. The Program’s founder, Verónica Gómez, who knows some of the representatives of these restaurants, set up a project that would make it possible to distribute this food to the elderly. By Sabrina Velandia. Full Text -> Global Voices

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Nelina Cardalis, 78, is exhausted from work even though it is only noon. She rests her body on a bag of oranges in front of the stand she runs at the makeshift public market close to where she lives in Patare, one of the biggest and most dangerous slums in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. By Gabriela Mesones Rojo. Full text -> The New Humanitarian

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