“Here we survive, we rig-up, we try to move on, in every way we can. It’s already difficult for us to make it to the end of the day, can you imagine what it’s like after three months with no income?” asks Salvatore, 50, as he takes long puffs from a cigarette, filling the air of his living-room with thick smoke. A father of five, he has worked all possible jobs, all of them in the informal sector, since he left school aged 7. Without a formal contract or social security, his name is nowhere to be found in the employment databases. He has done everything to make ends meet: plumber, carpenter, tailor, electrician, mechanic. Before the lockdown, his daily-wage work as a bricklayer was barely enough to put bread on the table. When the lockdown was imposed following the COVID-19 outbreak, his life-line got interrupted and, with no savings…

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