OCHENDO - An African Journal of Innovative Studies (OAAJIS) (Vol. 4 No. 3, 2023)
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN IN OGOJA: RESPONSE OF CENTRE FOR STUDIES AND INTERVENTION
ABSTRACT
The outbreak of coronavirus disease was declared pandemic and the virus spread to many countries and territories. While the impacts of the virus was felt across the globe, it fell disproportionately on the world’s most vulnerable. Women in particular were more disproportionately affected by the pandemic. COVID-19 as it is called brought a lot of death, despair, hunger, sorrow as well as violation of human right in Nigeria. The impact of the pandemic varies from country to country; it has increased poverty and inequalities at a global scale. One of the preventive measures put in place by the Word Health Organization, and adopted by Nigerian government is lockdown by which the citizens are advised and in most of the cases, made to stay at home brought more death than coronavirus itself. This paper therefore seeks to unveil the impact of COVID-19 in the lives of Ogoja women and the transformational deeds of CWSI toward helping women of Ogoja to survive the pandemic.
