May 11, 2020
Girls Gang, a community action group for teenage girls in a disadvantaged community produced positive posters to be included in food packages being sent to families experiencing poverty and hardship during lockdown. The group wanted to do something to help the community but felt limited in ways they could enact their citizenship during lockdown. Messages in the posters included words of hope, tips for coping with lockdown and also telling residents that they were not alone.
Picture by West Cumbria Community Action Trust
Recipients of the care packages told the coordinators that the posters helped to lift spirits at times when anxieties were high. It also provided the girls with an opportunity to enact their civic citizenship under the civic restrictions imposed under lockdown.
Class based inequalities are being exacerbated during the lockdown but working class and poor communities are finding creative ways to support one another.
Story shared by Suzanne Wilson, United Kingdom.
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