Bouncing Back and Developing Elasticity During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring Intergenerational Partnerships and Interventions among Grassroots Women’s Organisations to Address COVID-19-Related Challenges in Rural Western Cape, South Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified pre-existing inequalities and social challenges that have existed for many decades. Poor communities, rural women, farm dwellers, the elderly, and youth are some of the sectors most acutely impacted by the pandemic. The pandemic has had an acute impact on women and fractured the relationship between adult and younger women. The prediction is that, in a crisis situation, the social cohesion between generations will weaken as the different interests of the two groups come to the fore. The assumption that young and adult women are automatically at loggerheads and that their interests are irreconcilable in such contexts has been refuted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper outlines interventions by two organisations and highlights how young and older women have worked together to build platforms for resilience for high risk communities during the pandemic. RETRIEVED FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE.
Author(s): Vainola Makan, Wendy Pekeur
Date Published: 03/2022

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