by Vainola Makan and Wendy Pekeur
“With the emergence of collaborative efforts between younger and older
communities in online spaces, we see the power of intergenerational
cooperation. When we coalesce to discuss solutions and mobilise
together, there are new and reimagined opportunities to wield our
collective knowledge and resources to tackle COVID-19 and other
systemic injustices of social exclusion and power.” (Sato, 2020)
Introduction
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.
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