This archive report was first published on 11 July 2020.
Published on July 11, 2020, a mother in Bogotá, Colombia, watched as her daughter dropped off her son with his father at a house down the road, a common sight during the pandemic.
Her mother, 54, had been evicted twice amid the pandemic and was now living with a friend, both families crammed together in a small space.
'There's no work now,' she said, breaking down in tears. 'This is not a life.'
Her daughter, Karol, an aspiring nurse, was trying to keep up with classes, but without internet access, she had to rely on a friend to download assignments and text them to her. She then completed them by hand and sent them back as pictures.
As the quarantine loosened, the mother finally returned to her job cleaning a bakery, but her housekeeping clients never asked her back, and she was earning about half as much as she did before.
'This has been hard on my mom,' Karol said. 'As soon as this is over, I hope she gets new work and we can go back to our old lives.'
