header banner
My City, Lifestyle

Selling flowers out of her VW Beetle helps Rio woman survive COVID-19

You can’t miss the green 1969 Volkswagen Beetle parked at the corner, orchids and ferns crowding its open bonnet, sunflowers sticking out of windows, potted plants on the roof. Turning her car into a flower shop was Valcineia Machado’s survival plan after her business collapsed in the COVID-19 pandemic, and she is has become a hit in Rio’s Copacabana beach district.
By Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO 


You can’t miss the green 1969 Volkswagen Beetle parked at the corner, orchids and ferns crowding its open bonnet, sunflowers sticking out of windows, potted plants on the roof.


Related story

Jewelry shops survive on smuggled gold


Turning her car into a flower shop was Valcineia Machado’s survival plan after her business collapsed in the COVID-19 pandemic, and she is has become a hit in Rio’s Copacabana beach district.


At 51, she has reinvented herself, moving from real estate to selling roses and other flower on a busy corner.


“I had no money at all to pay the rent, so I began to think what I could do to survive,” she said, placing a sunflower pot on the sidewalk.


And it’s going well. In the first three days she made enough to cover one-third of the cost of buying the Beetle, and she says she has become the talk of the neighborhood.

See more on: Volkswagen_Beetle
Related Stories
SOCIETY

KMC cracks down on street flower vendors ahead of...

OPINION

Love:  Mystery and Miracle

SOCIETY

Govt warns of taking action against those selling...

My City

Dev Patel helped stop a violent altercation involv...

My City

Anand Mahindra fulfils his promise, gifts ‘Idli Am...

Top Videos

Bold Preety willing to fight for her musical career

Awareness among people on heart diseases has improved in Nepal’

Print still remains the numbers of one platform

Bringing home a gold medal is on my bucket

What is Nepal's roadmap to sage child rights