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World Service,23 May 2020,23 mins

SeriesDon't Log Off

Don't log off - part seven

The Documentary

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Alan Dein connects with individuals around the globe who are working to make a difference despite the pandemic. 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. Plus stories of self-isolation in St Petersburg and an Olympics dream put on hold.

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