Laura is used to dealing with poverty. She is a primary school teacher in one of France's education priority zones, which are designed to improve educational opportunities for children in some of the country's most disadvantaged areas. Her pupils come from Les Rosiers, a deprived housing estate in the Mediterranean city of Marseille where residents live in old run-down buildings that are, even at the best of times, bad for people's health and safety. But since France's Covid-19 lockdown began on March 17th, the existing social vulnerabilities and inequalities have been exacerbated in such areas. Children are not now just living in poor housing, they are going hungry too.
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