maybe we can share a little bit about
how our organizations are dealing with
the corona crisis how you are dealing
with it in Liberia what are we doing in
Germany and what is medical mondial
doing to support our partner
organizations around the world so I
don't know maybe you can start because I
know you're already in the preventive mood.
I think as a country Liberia was quite
proactive in the sense that even before
we had any outbreak of the virus the
airport screening had already started
and I think this comes from the learning
from the Ebola epidemic.
So as an organization that is providing
support to women and girls we
felt that it was important to be able to
respond. One of the first thing that we
were able to do was to provide sanitary
kits through the community that was
firstly attack or firstly recorded and then we provided a
bit of training to the community leader
of the clinic.
Carol do you remember? When I was thinking about the Ebola Crisis
that one day when you were calling me almost crying. We were crying together because
there was a woman who was giving birth at the street.
Women's health did not matter anymore.
- Yes that is that is a case that will ever be on my mind
I remember that very vividly. There was a
woman who like you said, there was two
possible means all standing together
near the Health Ministry building. And I was very curious,
I'm like what are they doing? Something
must be happening. So we went there
and we found a woman, who was in labor. In fact she was giving birth.
She had been turned down from a health facility, because she did not have the money.
In a way when we have a conflict or a crisis, the women
issues becoming invisible. Even in normal
circumstances we're always fighting to
be on the table, we are always fighting
to be seen, we are fighting to be heard,
we are always fighting! So during crisis
time we we fight more. We put a lot of
more energy into making sure that we are
represented, that our input is on the agenda.
It makes a difference, it makes a
difference for the kind of solidarity to
have courageous women who are passionate,
you know, I am working from home and
we offer at nights
transport from the officers, because we don't
want the team to use public transport.
I went in the office last week and I met the team
and I like: "we are supposed to be closed
at 3 o´clock. So what are you doing?"
They answered: "Oh no, I have to finish this, and finish that.
I'm getting messages from colleagues at weird times, because many of them
are with their children at home. So they can't work the
normal hours. So I get messages at half past 10 in the night.
Its wonderful to see how everybody is kind of
of really saying: now we have to make a
difference! For women, for the world to
struggle together against this crisis.
And now we have What's App. We didn't have What´s App during the Ebola crisis.
So we can make use of Social Media Platforms to be able to communicate
more effectively even without being in the office.
I think  it's great that we can
just say "hey can we talk" and then
the colleagues are coming. The Cologne-Team is quite supportive and listening to what do we need to.
You know "Carol what is
important now? What do we do?"
