Social assistance work with people with disabilities and their families: Right to food and COVID-19

Abstract

This Photo Essay registers the socio-assistance alternatives adopted in a Service of Coexistence and Strengthening of Links, focusing on the right to food, in an attempt to minimize the adverse effects of social isolation on the disabled person and his family, as a strategy for maintaining the actions of social protection during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The ethnographically inspired research sought to capture several daily aspects of the practice, during the services developed in this period, besides analyzing and understanding through images, the contexts, the meanings, and the barriers and facilitators of the offer and provision of the service.