TO GO WITH AFP STORY " In Madrid, shame and frustration in the 'hunger lines' "BY EMMANUELLE MICHEL
Amanda Gomez, 53, (R) pushes her son Guillermo's buggy as she walks to the hospital with her daughter Alejandra for an operation on his son's eyes in Madrid on February 18, 2021. - A year after the pandemic hit Spain, the need for food handouts has soared in the country, especially by workers in the sectors hit hardest by the economic crisis that followed. The Spanish branch of Catholic charity Caritas says helped half a million people who had never before sought food aid last year. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)