{"id":17199,"date":"2020-04-15T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/15\/will-we-die-of-hunger-how-covid-19-lockdowns-imperil-street-children"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:00:37","slug":"will-we-die-of-hunger-how-covid-19-lockdowns-imperil-street-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17199","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will we die of hunger?\u2019: how Covid-19 lockdowns imperil street children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For millions of young people, coronavirus restrictions have made access to food, water and shelter even more precarious<\/p>\n<p>Timothy, a teenager on the streets of Mombasa, wonders how he will eat. \u201cRich people can stay home \u2026 because they have a store well stocked with food,\u201d he says. \u201cFor a survivor on the street your store is your stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, says another, if the rumours are true and street children are arrested in the city during the Covid-19 crisis, he\u2019d be happy to go to Shimo women\u2019s prison, because there \u201cyou are sure to get free food, shelter and medical services\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/15\/will-we-die-of-hunger-how-covid-19-lockdowns-imperil-street-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For millions of young people, coronavirus restrictions have made access to food, water and shelter even more precariousTimothy, a teenager on the streets of Mombasa, wonders how he will eat. \u201cRich people can stay home \u2026 because they have a store well s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,245,1069,59,895,62,1353,914,1086,958,532,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-children","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-homelessness","category-india","category-inequality-and-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-kenya","category-poverty","category-south-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions\/17200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}