09/10/2025
How do we connect across countries, languages, and contexts? Across different policy landscapes, histories, and care realities? 🌍
Day 2 of the Scaling Care Innovations Africa workshop offered two moments that brought this question to life.
We started the day by mapping care across the continent. Each team wrote the word 'care' in their own language and placed it on a shared map of Africa. A simple exercise, but such a powerful reminder of how care looks, sounds, and feels different everywhere.
Later, during the “brain dates” session, each project created a poster to share what makes their work unique. Then we moved around the room, asking questions, finding common ground, and learning from one another 💭
Different countries, different contexts, yet shared challenges: deep inequalities in who does the care work, women carrying most of the load, harmful gender norms, and policy systems that need urgent transformation.
Moments like these remind us that while care realities are grounded in local contexts, there are also powerful overlaps. Learning from each other turns these overlaps into momentum towards a more equitable future.
📸 Prof. Ameeta Jaga (PI) and Jess Capstick-Dale (Communications Lead) with their poster.
