UK-based Organisation Highlights Impact of COVID-19 on Women

ANYISO, a charity platform for women, has given nuggets on helping women access support, tackle abuse, and how Scotland and the world can be free of violence against women.

The event, which was held at the Whiteinch centre in Glasgow on October 30 this year, tabled the impact of COVID-19 where policy makers, government agencies, organisations and members of the public.

In the words of the founder, Shulamite Ezechi, “COVID-19 has affected women both in frontline and at home while exposing structural inequalities across every area – from health to the economy, from security to social protection and increase in domestic abuse.”

With all these happening in times of crisis when resources are strained and institutional capacity is limited, Ezechi hinted that women and girls face so many far-reaching consequences.

“I felt that responding to the pandemic is not just about rectifying long-standing inequalities, but also about building a resilient world in the interest of everyone with women at the centre of recovery.

“At the conference we discussed these issues, approaches, made suggestions, and looked for ways we could work together in tackling issues that affect us as women,” she emphasised.

The founder also harped on the importance of organisations and agencies working together. “They tend to make huge differences in people’s lives irrespective of their ethnicities and cultural differences.”

Following its mission to reach women and children, ANYISO clinched the Charity of the Year award at the Prestige Awards recently held in the UK.

ANYISO is a registered charity in the UK that runs multiple projects, seminars, workshops, conferences, provides support and services for women, young people, refugees, and asylum seekers.