{"id":173277,"date":"2020-11-25T23:57:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pasha-88-lockdown-and-young-people-living-on-the-streets-of-harare-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T23:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:57:21","slug":"pasha-88-lockdown-and-young-people-living-on-the-streets-of-harare-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pasha-88-lockdown-and-young-people-living-on-the-streets-of-harare-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasha 88: Lockdown and young people living on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For many young people living on the streets, lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic has made their situation worse. The city of Harare in Zimbabwe was no exception. Lockdown made it difficult for young people to find food and make money in the informal economy. Researchers set up a story map \u2013 a map with text, images and multimedia content \u2013 to hear their voices and understand their experiences.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of a three-year project called Growing up on the Streets<\/a>, which worked with young people living on the streets in three African cities (Accra, Bukavu and Harare) alongside NGO partner StreetInvest<\/a>. With the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, life on the streets became a lot harder, as young people recount in the story map.<\/p>\n

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Read more: Young people living on Harare\u2019s streets provide glimpses into life under COVID-19 lockdown<\/a> <\/strong> <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s episode of Pasha has Janine Hunter and Lorraine van Blerk, both at the University of Dundee, discussing the project. With them is the NGO\u2019s Shaibu Chitsiku, with insights from the ground. <\/p>\n

Photo:<\/strong> A group of children look with curiosity at a team of police deployed in Mbare township July 31 2020. Photo by Jekesai Njikizana\/AFP Getty Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Music:<\/strong>
\n\u201cHappy African Village\u201d by John Bartmann, found on FreeMusicArchive.org<\/a> licensed under CC0 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterludium II\u201d, by Spin Day found on FreeMusicArchive.org<\/a> licensed under Attribution License.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many young people living on the streets, lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic has made their situation worse. The city of Harare in Zimbabwe was no exception. Lockdown made it difficult for young people to find food and make money in the informal economy. Researchers set up a story map \u2013 a map with text, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-173277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-mypr","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pasha-88-lockdown-and-young-people-living-on-the-streets-of-harare-zimbabwe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}