If I sit back and do nothing, my family won’t survive

I invested all my savings in a tourist shop and café that was due to open in April. Now I deliver desserts to feed my family. #HumansofCOVID19

By Tuong Vi Nguyen

/ 30 Apr 2020

If I sit back and do nothing, my family won’t survive

I’m more afraid of Albania’s police than the virus

I collect trash to survive but the curfew makes it hard to go out. They demolished our market, and I’m afraid my house is next. #HumansofCOVID19

By Nexhmie Qerimi

/ 28 Apr 2020

I’m more afraid of Albania’s police than the virus

Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work

I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has stopped with lockdown. #HumansofCOVID19

By Selam Abebe*

/ 23 Apr 2020

Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work

I am lonely and miss talks with neighbours

How can I be afraid of the pandemic? I’m living without any means and I’m still alive! I don’t even die. #HumansofCOVID19

By Tatev Hovhannisyan and Galina Amirkhanyan

/ 16 Apr 2020

I am lonely and miss talks with neighbours

Pandemic poverty: "I can't afford to live on £94 a week"

Four women in the UK explain how the British government's coronavirus support scheme has let them slip through the safety net. #HumansofCOVID19

By Adam Ramsay

/ 15 Apr 2020

Pandemic poverty: "I can't afford to live on £94 a week"

We are cheap labour to fight COVID-19

I was put on the frontline against the coronavirus. I’m a medical resident. We have no tests, protection or ventilators. And I think I’m infected. #HumansofCOVID19 Español

By Kaeliz Garcia

/ 14 Apr 2020

Isolated in a toxic relationship

I am in lockdown with my husband who drinks and shouts and breaks things. We live on social grants. My kids are trying to do homework on my phone. #HumansofCOVID19

By Karineh Matevosyan

/ 9 Apr 2020

Family offers no solace when it's the source of pain

How can LGBTIQ people find solace in family or religion when these are the sources of our pain? #HumansofCOVID19

By Marylize Biubwa

/ 7 Apr 2020

Family offers no solace when it's the source of pain

Humans of COVID-19