Don't log off - part eight

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Alan Dein connects with people who are experiencing sleepless nights during the coronavirus pandemic. Salina is a Nepalese student stranded in Bangkok after the borders were closed. With no income, she’s kept awake in her stifling, windowless room as her money runs out. Meanwhile, Keenya is a hairdresser in Detroit, anxious about feeding her seven children as Covid-19 spreads through her community. And Mursalina in Afghanistan worries about increasing poverty on the streets of Kabul in the midst of the pandemic.

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0:00.0	The world's borders are closed. The future is uncertain.
0:06.0	We're keeping our distance.
0:09.0	But human beings still need to connect.
0:14.0	Hello? Hello, Alan.
0:16.0	How are you? Hello Mr Allen.
0:17.0	How are you?
0:18.0	I've been reaching out across the globe, to every continent.
0:21.0	I'm living in Wanda City and Sudan. I am in the suburb outside of Detroit. I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan.
0:28.0	Searching for the things that unite us in this time of crisis. I use my power of prayer a little bit more often now than ever.
0:37.0	You are coming and crying that please help us and it really breaks my heart.
0:42.0	Some fortunate thing I have to tell you, Alan, the health care system is about to collapse.
0:49.0	I'm Alan Dean, and this is Don't Log Off on the BBC World Service.
0:57.0	Hello.
1:01.0	Hello, Selina, where are you? So right now I'm in Bangkok. 21 year old Selina is a hospitality
1:08.8	and tourism student from the pool one of many facing severe difficulties in Thailand.
1:15.0	So right now we are having so much stress.
1:20.0	Tell me about the stress what's happening.
1:24.0	All of the new police students were walking in hotel.
1:27.0	Yes.
1:28.0	Some are doing as a waiter, as a safe, as a cook helper, as a housekeeping roommate like that.
1:34.8	It's okay for us. The walk was okay, but right now it's not okay because of the
1:39.9	pandemic. We have lost our job. The students are unable to return to Nepal because
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