Innovative responses to Covid-19 from Homeworker organisations
As we have highlighted in earlier updates, the Covid-19 crisis has hit homeworkers' hard, as factories lose overseas orders and close due to lockdowns, leaving informal homeworkers without work and also denied access to social security. This Update from Traidcraft Exchange who is leading our Hidden Homeworkers project, highlights some of the ways the ways in which our local partners have adapted project activities to respond to the Covid 19 crisis. There's also a great blog published here (https://www.wiego.org/blog/innovation-and-unity-how-home-based-workers-are-adapting-covid-19-world), reviewing some innovative responses to the crisis by homeworker organsiations in other parts of the world.