Pandemic - WageIndicator Team & Flame Interns

It's easy to get caught up in our own lives. However, when we listen and understand others and their experiences, we become kinder, better and more empathetic individuals.

Yaamini and her family had to cope with a serious cyclone which hit Mumbai and cut off electricity for days, making it hard to work

Manvika found online university classes and studying tough in the beginning, but says working with WI has helped her to adjust

For Kapish, working for WI and studying meant that he needed to be constantly online – so a computer crash had consequences

From her home in Mumbai, Ishana says adjusting to being with her family after studying at university was a change, but she’s enjoying it

Vidushi says that while the pandemic is scary, people are finding reasons to be together, and build communities, and fight this together

From his home office in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Niels says if he can provide information that helps workers, this makes him happy

Karen lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. She is concerned for the welfare of vulnerable workers during coronavirus

Paulien speaks about co-ordinating the interns and the WI team – and providing family support - from Bussum in the Netherlands

Facing a host of challenges ranging from the global Covid-19 pandemic to cyclones, a group of interns from FLAME University in India worked with WageIndicator managers between April and June 2020. This is their story.