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The impact of Covid on the work of The Women's Circle

10 March 2021 | The Women's Circle ALE under Covid-19

Vanessa Reynolds, co-ordinator of the TWC says: Everyone says Covid has made everyone equal. It is not true. It has deepened inequality on the ground.

The Women’s Circle (TWC) saw the need to mobilise and support local working-class communities that were hardest hit by the virus. People lost jobs, food insecurity grew and gender-based violence spiked under lockdown conditions.

Hear what Vanessa and the other TWC women have to say.