Voices of Resilience in Uganda - Struggle narratives of grassroots women in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Voices of Resilience in Uganda Struggle narratives of grassroots women in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic Voices of Resilience in Uganda Struggle narratives of grassroots women in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic The voices were sampled from some Districts in Uganda where NAPE is currently implementing the Sustainability School and Community Green Radio Programmes. [...] Enter COVID-19 and the floods When everything seemed to be going in the right direction, COVID-19 hit! One day in March 2020, we heard the President of Uganda on the radio imposing a countrywide lockdown. [...] Though we had not registered any case of COVID-19 in our community, we were badly hit by the lockdown and the fear of contracting the virus. [...] Our response to the pandemic As reality sunk in that COVID-19 was not going away any time soon, we decided to devise ways as a group of combating the effects of the pandemic. [...] So during this lockdown, I and my children have made several trips to the forests and collected mushrooms which we have smoked and preserved to be eaten in the months ahead.