Women’s shelters across the country have put measures in place to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kathy Cronje, director of the Safe House and vice-chairperson of the Western Cape Women’s Shelter Movement, explains that the province has designated four frontline Covid-19 shelters.
Normally residents stay up to three months and go through a longer recovery and healing process, including dealing with legal matters like protection orders. Cronje says: “Now what we’re doing is making sure that their medical needs are met, trauma debriefing, the beginnings of the programme, and just let the ladies actually breathe and be.”
Cronje believes this is because the women could not bear staying longer. She says perhaps one of the reasons is that at the beginning of the lockdown the fear of the virus - the unknown - was worse than the fear of the known, the threat of domestic violence.
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