source: www.opendoors.org
This year’s Covid-19 crisis has come as a big shock and each of
us has been affected, with heart-breaking losses and tests to our
resilience. But the risks it has posed have depended on our level of
vulnerability: our age, our background, our health.
When you are already vulnerable, the consequences are much
more devastating than if you start from a position of wealth or
strength. For instance, in Syria and Iraq, where health systems have
been devastated by years of war. In Syria, only one in ten hospitals
remain. Family breadwinners have left to find work elsewhere,
leaving only one man to every seven women; the most vulnerable –
the elderly, disabled, poor – left with little option but to stay behind.
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