Food for the City’s Poor
Activists established soup kitchens to provide food for those impacted by Covid-19. The food solidarity movement is meant to assist the urban poor.
May 19, 2020
IN a kitchen half the size of a badminton court, Linda sat with four of her colleagues while listening to dangdut folk music. These sex workers in Yogyakarta’s Bong Suwung area were grinding spices, and cooking rice, tempeh, as well as sardines. Once the food was ready, they wrapped it and distributed the food to the elderly, widows and the homeless, who live along a railway near the red district area. They provide 200 packages of rice ever
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