Senegal Launches Huge Aid Scheme Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Food is stored in the courtyard of the community hotel in Yenn on April 28, 2020. – Senegal on April 28, 2020, kicked off a massive food distribution operation to help nearly half of its population cope with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is slowing down the economy of this West African country. Seyllou / AFP.
But 40 percent of the country’s roughly 16 million people live in poverty, often working in precarious informal jobs, and the restrictions have hit them hard. Some 60 people were at the pickup point on Tuesday out of about 3,200 people covered under the scheme in Guinaw-Rails, which lies beside a disused railway track some 20 kilometres from the centre.An official from the community development ministry on the scene said that the aid was being carefully handed out to 30 households each time in order to maintain social distancing.
“I can no longer leave because of this disease,” she said, noting that she had eight children and a jobless polygamous husband. “This is a very large operation, of great complexity,” he said, while urging people to maintain social-distancing measures.Senegal has recorded 823 coronavirus cases to date, with 9 fatalities — a low number relative to the outbreaks in Europe and the United States.
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