GENEVA, May 9 — In one of the world’s most expensive cities, thousands of people lined up today for free food, as the Covid-19 crisis casts a spotlight on Geneva’s usually invisible poor. In the Swiss city famous for its private banks, luxury watchmakers and fancy boutiques, people began...
People queue to receive bags with food and essential products received from donations at Vernets ice rink in Geneva, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , Geneva May 9, 2020. — Reuters pic
By the time the distribution at Geneva’s Vernet hockey stadium began four hours later, the queue of people, most wearing masks and standing two metres apart, stretched and wound for about 1.5 kilometres. “We need food,” Silvia Mango, a 64-year-old from the Philippines, said after waiting for three hours under a hot spring sun.
According to Switzerland’s Federal Statistics Office, around eight percent of the Swiss population, or some 660,000 people, are considered to live in poverty, out of around one million living in a precarious situation. In addition, a large pile of reserves tower in one corner next to mountains of empty bags, ready to be filled if needed.
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