The 8th of March world over is celebrated as International Women’s Day (IWD); celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness about women’s equality, lobbying for accelerated gender parity and fundraising for female-focused charities (IWD). Each year is celebrated with a unique theme and this year’s theme is Choose to Challenge.
During and post Covid, we’ve all been tested at a higher level and have risen above. Challenging as the past year has been, we continue to rise. The call to choose to challenge is most fitting now as the past year highlighted many of the social and economic inequalities faced by different people. Lockdown for some meant fighting for a livelihood every day. Women in abusive relationships were confined to the home space with their abuser and families dependent on a single mom’s daily wage had to find new ways to survive. To say we’ve had to be resilient is an understatement and with this fight hopefully behind us, the task of rebuilding lays ahead. We talk building trust (p.7), unle
