All four countries report case and death rate trends that mirror those in the rest of Europe. Although national borders are closing everywhere, migrants, displaced, and refugees, who constitute a number of our grantees in all four countries and are the backbone of many economies, are having to return or move on.
Armenians also report renewed conflict on their Azeri border and food shortages as Russian trucks are delayed at the Georgian border. Some greenhouse producers can no longer bring their products to market. Moldovans have family members who were working in Italy and had to return quickly. Georgians were exposed from their international trade and tourism, and quickly had to cancel direct flights to Wuhan. As elsewhere, coronavirus spread quickly and most cases now are from community transmission. A Ukrainian compares the current public hesitation to respond to this new threat to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, where the impact was initially invisible but eventually dramatic. Ukrainians, who recently lived through TB and measles epidemics, and conflict, may not have initially realized the extent of this new threat. Throughout the region, social isolation and lockdowns are officially in place. As everywhere in the world, this pandemic is having a negative economic impact. Many ventures have had to close and many entrepreneurs and their families are struggling.
Response
The main objective of this small competition is for the women entrepreneurs to share positive experiences and strategies for coping with this virus. Unfortunately, for some, we have already heard that even our small award amounts are needed. The Announcement went out in early April and already we have over a dozen responses. Deadline for submissions is April 26.
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