Rural Health Services during
COVID-19

Join rural women entrepreneurs, the Wheeler Institute, Dharma Life, Pathfinder International, and a network of global partners to identify and discuss challenges faced by rural communities. Some questions we will discuss during this 70-minute virtual discussion include:

• How do we deal with the threat of community transmission where livelihoods take priority?
• How can we enable community owned and community driven approaches in battling the pandemic?
• How can we ensure access to essential non-COVID-19 related health services such as family planning and reproductive health?
• What role does technology play in these efforts?

Hear directly from these changemakers of the We-for-Village Alliance, which connects rural communities and international stakeholders digitally. The Alliance helps vulnerable groups such as women, migrant workers, the elderly, and children with critical information, essential goods, services, and life-altering skills. Over a million people have already benefited from the efforts of the Alliance as it moves from a successful pilot to scale up.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the head of U.N. Women predicts that : “The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year undoing progress made in recent decades.“ Join us for the second in the Voice-of-the-Village roundtable series, in which we will launch the Jaya Alliance for livelihood opportunities among rural women. Some of the urgent questions we will discuss in this 60-70 minute virtual roundtable are:

• What are the barriers for women joining the workforce, and remaining in it?
• What lessons can we learn from successful women leaders?
• How does Covid-19 impact this situation?
• How can technology be used to improve education, remote work, safety, and livelihoods opportunities more generally?
• How can external entities help?

The Jaya Alliance helps rural women realise their potential by engaging in fulfilling livelihood opportunities. It connects stakeholders such as skilling institutions, the government, employers and the rural community through a digital platform to provide counselling, training, and support for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Because when a woman realises her potential, she lifts everyone around her.

Be part of the conversations that create solutions and join Dharma Life’s rural women entrepreneurs and a network of global partners to identify and discuss the challenges faced by rural communities. Some of the urgent questions we will discuss in this 60-70 minute virtual roundtable are:

• What are the crucial needs of these communities?
• How are they evolving?
• What lessons can we learn from those who are confronting and responding to this new reality?
• How can external entities help?
• How can technology help?

Hear directly from the changemakers of the We-for-Village Alliance, which connects rural communities and international stakeholders digitally. The Alliance helps vulnerable groups - such as women, migrant workers, the elderly, and children - with critical information, essential goods and services, and life-altering skills. Over a million people have already benefited from the efforts of the Alliance as it moves from a successful pilot to scale up.