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Caracas, Venezuela Sep 10 (EFE), (Camera: Jackdwin Sáez).- Blanca, Ángel and Alí can't wait for Monday. They are elderly people who live alone in Caracas, hard hot by the pandemic and the crisis but, at the beginning of the week, they receive meals for the next five days from the Good Neighbour, a solidarity initiative that helps 1,000 people per month.FOOTAGE OF "GOOD NEIGHBOUR" VOLUNTEERS DELIVERING FOOD AND MASK PRODUCTION:SOUNDBITES OF:-BLANCA DÍAZ:"We receive a pension of some 400,000 bolivars, which is equivalent to 1.30 dollars per month. What can a person do with 1,30 dollars per month?-VERÓNICA GÓMEZ, JOURNALIST AND VOLUNTEER OF GOOD NEIGHBOUR:"No, I don't want to go to nursing homes. I want to go to the houses of those old people who don't have their children here because they had to leave the country.""Little by little, we have grown and that 50 meals now have turned into 1,000 meals per week. Today we deliver food to 200 people every week. They alternate so those who receive their meals this week won't get them next week but in 15 days so this way we can deliver meals to 1,000 people during a month.""Most of them are retired, their children live abroad and they're over 60. In our database, most of them are between 60 and 70 years old...They are alone at home and the neighbours are who register them and, on some occasions, the neighbours were the ones helping them so when they knew about the Good Neighbour they saw it as economic relief for themselves. They now know that, apart from the community, they have other people who can help them.""In a recent interview with a friend, he asked me 'do you see these old people worse now?' And I said "A lot." Some of them, 5 months ago, looked impeccable, shaved, with their (clean) clothes...the clothes are now too big, they don't shave, they don't tuck in their shirts...They are alone, they don't speak with anyone. I always say that the best part of the Good Neighbour is not the food but the company. They even have our personal numbers."-ANGELO RANGEL, LEADER OF MASK INITIATIVE IN CARACAS:"A month ago we wanted to start the production of masks. The initiative was born due to the need because there aren't masks. It is uncomfortable because we are showing a reality that shouldn't exist, I mean, it should be a state that guarantees all this."
New York, May 26 (EFE) .- Humans Right Watch (HRW) and the Centers of Public Health and Human Rights of Johns Hopkins University have presented a report on Tuesday demanding the community international urgent humanitarian aid so that Venezuela can face the COVID-19 pandemic.FOOTAGE FROM THE SOCIAL MEDIA OF HRW
Jaguar and Land Rover have deployed more than 160 vehicles globally to support emergency response organisations during the coronavirus crisis. A total of 57 vehicles including 27 New Defenders have been issued to the British Red Cross to deliver medicine and food vulnerable people across the UK who now need additional support due to social distancing rules.Jaguar and Land Rover teams in Spain, France, South Africa and Australia have loaned vehicles to their Red Cross societies and more markets are offering help to their local teams. This service is being provided with fleets of vehicles now available due to the postponement of launch events.
Panama, Sep 29 (EFE), (CAMERA: Carlos Lemos) .- The president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, participated in a tribute for nurses who have worked during the Covid-19 crisis.
New York City, Sep 24 (EFE).- Several former Latin American presidents highlighted Friday during the second day of the Global Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean the lack of unity among the leaders of the region and advocated for unity and independence to face the problems that Covid-19 has left them. (Camera: EFE).B-ROLL OF THE GLOBAL FORUM ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN IN NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, US.
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