The Brazilian Neymar, front of Paris Saint-Germain, has joined a donation campaign to help with basic food baskets and hygiene products for families living in the favelas of Sao Paulo, one of the most vulnerable areas against the coronavirus pandemic.
“Solidarity must be more contagious than the virus”, stated number 10 of the Brazilian team on their social networks.
Various civil society associations have organized to create the initiative “UniaoSP” with the aim of preventing “a humanitarian crisis” in the most vulnerable communities in the state of Sao Paulo as a consequence of the expansion of the coronavirus.
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Sao Paulo is the most hit region of Brazil, with 68 of the 92 deaths in the country from COVID-19 and 1,223 of the almost 3,500 positives registered in just one month, according to the balance of the Ministry of Health released this Friday.
The project is also sponsored by the surfer Gabriel Medina, two-time world champion, and Luciano Huck, a well-known television presenter and businessman, among other personalities of the South American country.
“That people think more of their neighbor in a moment of such anguish, uncertainty and suffering. We are not raising resources, we are donating our own resources and mobilizing friends and family,” he said in Instagram the presenter Huck, who has political ambitions and is even considered as a possible presidential candidate.
Brazilian favelas have become one of the most vulnerable areas against coronavirus due to the high population density and the lack of infrastructure in these communities, some of which do not even have running water.
In addition, a significant part of its population works in the informal market and has been seriously affected by the quarantines decreed in some Brazilian states, such as the one in Sao Paulo, to try to contain the spread of coronavirus.
All shops of Sao Paulo, except the basic necessities, are closed from Tuesday for a period of 15 days, extendable.
He Government of brazil It has approved a subsidy for informal workers of 600 reais per month ($ 120) with the intention of helping this group, which represents 40% of the employed population, equivalent to about 40 million people across the country.