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COVID-19 pandemic sees international students unable to return home, surviving on free food
Life in Melbourne was going well for Tiyon Novaidin and his wife.
Key points:
- International students and casual workers have become vulnerable to food insecurity
- Many lost their jobs in the hospitality and cleaning services industries
- Some survived by receiving free groceries from not-for-profit organisations
They both had steady jobs and he was completing his masters in accounting.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and upended their lives.
Mr Novaidin’s wife lost her full-time cleaning job because of the restrictions in Victoria, and Mr Novaidin was struggling to pay rent and put food on the table with just his part-time cleaning job.
“Everything happened so suddenly,” he said.
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