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Don't log off - part seven

Don't log off - part seven

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic.

The Documentary Podcast · BBC World Service

May 23, 202024m 12s

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Show Notes

In Mumbai, Chinu has been has been providing food to the city’s migrant and daily labourers who have been unable to work since the country’s lockdown. Getting up at 4.30am each day, he has served over 415,000 hot meals so far. In Nigeria, optometry student Ismail has been sleeping in a mosque since his college closed its doors three and a half months ago, but is holding on to his dreams of working for the WHO or UN. And deep in the Amazon rainforest, Tatiana, a state politician and academic forecasts trouble ahead.