“Street vendors are especially suffering”: Several groups in Los Angeles formed the Street Vendor Emergency Fund to help the mostly Latino street vendors amid the coronavirus pandemic. - NBCLatino
Cecilia Jiménez, 85, has been selling jewelry for more than 20 years along the streets of Los Angeles.
But due to the coronavirus pandemic, the street vendor fondly known as Doña Ceci or abuelita has found herself without the means to make a living.in an effort to reduce outside activity to stop the spread of the virus.after a decades long battle to legalize street vending, and it had given the mostly Latino vendors like Jiménez until June to sell on the streets while they figured out the new permits.
Miguel Angel Perez, left, coordinator of the street vendors of Exposition Park, speaks to vendors during a meeting regarding progress in the legalization of their work in Los Angeles on March 24, 2019.The coronavirus, however, changed things, and only the few vendors who already have permits are allowed to operate. While some street sellers without permits say they'll take their chances and stay outside, Jiménez does not want to risk getting sick.
“If we don’t have health,” she asked in Spanish, “how are we going to support ourselves — how are we going to pay the rent, how are we going to pay everything we need? So the health and the economy are equally worrying for us all.”In an effort to provide assistance to this segment of the city’s workforce, local organizations formed the
providing street sellers with $400 preloaded MasterCards to help them pay their rent and supplement their lost income.
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