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Students in France wait for food handouts as COVID-19 destroys part-time jobs

Students in France wait for food handouts as COVID-19 destroys part-time jobs

MANUEL AUSLOOS EVERY Tuesday evening, Moroccan student Chaimae Irfaq hands out food parcels to dozens of hard-up students in the foyer of her Paris university residence, and takes one home for herself. Irfaq arrived in France in October to complete her business studies degree and had expected to work part-time jobs to supplement the 700 euros a month her father gives her. But she said the coronavirus crisis meant there were few jobs going, with bars and restaurants closed and businesses feeling the pinch from COVID-19 restrictions. "If I had work I wouldn't need the (handouts)," she said as she…
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