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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Coronavirus is spreading and deaths are mounting - but what most worries the leaders of Brazil’s isolated and vulnerable communities is how on earth to feed people now government has pulled their main emergency aid.
Ivone Rocha is co-founder of Semeando Amor, a non-profit that distributes basic staples to some of the very poorest people in Rio das Pedras, one of Rio de Janeiro’s many favelas.
For most of last year, they had received a decent government stipend to survive the pandemic, but that all ended with 2020, unleashing a frenzy of favela requests for food.