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17-09-2021, 19:55

PHOTOS: They Could Put Food On The Table — Until The Pandemic Struck

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Gloria Hernandez, 82, stands outside her home in Aliaga, a village in the Philippines, where she lives with her daughter and grandsons. During the pandemic, she has been struggling to afford fresh meat and fish.

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Yroné Camelia Araujo Barreto, a 50-year-old Venezuelan migrant living in Quito, Ecuador, at the dining room table. She is eating a traditional Venezuelan dish of cachapa, round dough made from corn, filled with pork. She typically eats two meals a day if she’s lucky enough to afford it.

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Barreto, left, dances with her granddaughter in the kitchen. She lives with her son, daughter-in-law and their two kids. Even though the family is having a tough time, Barreto says she tries to look for ways to be happy. «When I cook cachapas, I turn on my Venezuelan music and start cooking, dancing and remembering my country.

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Barreto and her family receive weekly donations of vegetables and grains from charity groups. Before the pandemic, the family had a balanced diet, she says they could buy meat and fish on a daily basis. Now that’s a once-a-week treat.

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Femi Oyekan Moses, left, and his wife Mary share a dish of boiled beans and corn at their home in Oyo, Nigeria. Before the pandemic, he says, «I used to give my wife enough to get bags of rice, garri [cassava flour], pepper, fish and meat.

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Left: Mary prepares a dish of beans and corn. The couple relies on food donations and vegetables from their garden, including corn and yams, for meals. Right: Mary seasons the dish with pepper.

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Femi and Mary sit together at home. Femi says he remains optimistic the family will return to the life they had before the pandemic. For now, he says, the support of friends, family and church helps them cope.

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Hernandez, left, outside her home in the evening. Some nights, she says, she goes to bed hungry.

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Hernandez eats rice with a little coffee poured on top for her meal. She calls it «survival food.

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Lloyd Abshier, 70, stands outside his car waiting for a drive-through food distribution event to begin in Columbia, Tenn. Abshier arrived over two hours early to get food for his wife and two kids.

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Volunteers with the nonprofit groups One Generation Away and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee load up cars with shopping carts full of donated food.

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Abshier and his family have not changed their eating habits too much over the past few months, he says. But they’ve definitely been eating a lot more ramen noodles because the prices of food at his usual grocery stores have become «outrageous, he adds – especially the price of meat.

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Abshier stands outside his car after receiving groceries from the food bank. The items include milk, yogurt, cherry tomatoes, bread, eggs, bok choy, cabbages, grapes and mini cherry pies.

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Kiali Onzhe Ngssakhes, right, buys vegetables and spices at Talangai Market in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. The 45-year-old single mother, who is HIV positive, had to stop selling grilled meat due to the pandemic — and now can’t buy as much food as she used to.

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Left: Ngssakhes prepares a fire to cook lunch. Right: She cuts snook fish into pieces. She’ll boil them, then fry them with vegetables and spices.

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Ngssakhes, right, and her 12-year-old daughter, left, eat boiled plantains and fried fish outside their home.

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Hosna Ali, 6, eats rice with dried fish at home in Seleyang, Malaysia. Her dad, Mohd Ali, says the family has not been getting enough nutrients during the pandemic.

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Mohd, 32, prepares a dish his mother taught him: a mix of rice, lentils, curry, chopped long beans and chili powder. «Let my wife rest today. I will cook and show you! he says.

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Mohd, right, eats with his wife, Tawhirah, center, and their daughter Hosna, left. Tawhirah is in her first trimester of pregnancy.

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SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
Beans, biscuits and noodles to stave off hunger — with an occasional serving of chicken for their 6-year-old

When the pandemic hit, the national army put a barbed wire fence around Mohd Ali’s neighborhood. The idea was to restrict movement and prevent COVID-19 transmission. For Ali, the fence made it impossible to get to his job as a restaurant dishwasher.

Then after a cycle of lockdowns, the restaurant closed earlier this year.

The job was a good one. Ali, 32, earned $10-12 a day and could support his family. He’s been trying to find a new gig, but it’s been difficult, he says. The job market is saturated. And he lives in the country without legal permission, making it even harder for him to find work. He and his family came to Malaysia in 2012 to escape the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.

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The refrigerator is mostly empty. Mohd lost his job as a restaurant dishwasher at the start of the crisis and can no longer afford the meat, fruit, bread and eggs he used to buy for his family.

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Ali eats a typical Malaysian dish of long beans and rice.

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Anna Ottens, 41, walks her bike near the Archipelago Community Center in Amsterdam. The single mom of three relies on the center’s food bank to supplement the groceries she buys with government aid.

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A bag of groceries that Ottens got on her weekly pickup. «I’d love to see more fruit and vegetables, she says.

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Antonio Carlos «Carlinhos da Silva Costa, 49, eats spaghetti, beans and chicken at a food stall in Bahia, Brazil. Vendor Mariangela Pereira says she normally charges about $3 for the dish but gives Costa a half-off discount because «I learned I need to give food to the people.

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Costa says his diet is significantly less healthy than it was before the pandemic. He used to eat fruit — he’s fond of mangoes especially. And he really misses pirão — a type of thick fish stew.

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Costa, left, talks to a passerby while eating his meal. Since his wife died a few months ago, he has been living on the streets. Without her income, he can no longer afford their apartment.

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Aviwe Maphini, 30, eats pasta with canned sardines in front of her home in Cape Town, South Africa. The mom of two was working as a lawyer before the pandemic hit.

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A plate of sardines in the kitchen. Maphini and her family have been relying on cheap proteins to supplement their meals.

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Kukhanyile Maphini, 6, eats a margarine and peanut butter sandwich while watching TV at home. His dad, a police officer, rests on the couch.

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Salman Khan Rashid, 24, right, and his mother, Sana Rashid, at home. Salman lost his job as a golf coach at a Mumbai sports club during the pandemic. The household, which includes Salman’s three sisters, is now surviving on savings.

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Salman’s typical lunch: one piece of Indian bread and one curried potato.

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The Rashid family home is a garage converted into an apartment. A curtain separates the kitchen from the living area.

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The Rashid family home is a garage converted into an apartment. A curtain separates the kitchen from the living area.

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Despite Rashid’s increasingly dire situation, he recognizes his family is lucky. «Even with the little I have, I believe in giving to people who have nothing and are destitute, he says. And when he is able, he gives a little food or a bit of money to people in need.

Photos and reporting by Viraj Nayar

Additional credits

Many of the photographers are part of the Everyday Projects community, contributing to Instagram accounts from countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America, North America and Europe. Visuals edited by Ben de la Cruz, Ian Morton and Nicole Werbeck. Text by Suzette Lohmeyer. Text edited by Malaka Gharib and Marc Silver. Special thanks to Caroline Drees, senior director for field safety and security at NPR.

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