Coronavirus brings new levels of misery to impoverished California trailer park
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Daisey follows 13-year-old Carlos Castelano to a bus stop near Oasis Mobile Home Park, where difficult conditions are compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. In Mecca, the nonprofit Galilee Center has long provided food, clothing and basic needs for families, including farmworkers. In the last month, the center has seen a tremendous increase in demand.
Maria Corrales had to stop working to stay home after the daycare facility that looked after her kids closed due to the pandemic. Of Corrales’ five siblings living in the area, only one is still working, although with only a couple of construction jobs per week. Canales has watched as other farmworkers in the shelter returned to Mexico, either tired of waiting or scared off by the virus. Those who stayed hadn’t worked in at least a month, passing the time playing cards, listening to music and swapping stories, their voices muffled by masks.
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