Social safety nets, community spirit help South African mother through Covid-19 crisis

Around 40 km outside Cape Town, Leebah Bessick wipes sweat from her forehead as she digs a pitchfork into the earth at a neighbourhood community garden. It’s an unseasonably hot day here at Blackheath Secondary School and even a shady corner of the garden offers Bessick and the other gardeners little respite from the midday sun. Still, she finds refuge here these days after enduring a year of hardship… Read more on https://afdb.africa-newsroom.com/press/social-safety-nets-community-spirit-help-south-african-mother-through-covid19-crisis?lang=en