Fidaa Shurrab gives an insight into life before and during the pandemic, trying to sustain her work of supporting children and families and following her principle not to lose hope.

Alan spends the lockdown with his pets instead of his boyfriend, who lives in a different city. After six months, the relationship is put to a test. However, other than some of his queer friends, at least he can enjoy his privacy.

Mike van Graan, a well-established playwright and activist based in Cape Town, shares how the pandemic has struck the cultural scene in South Africa. Mike feels more busy than before the lockdown and helps make cultural practitioners more resilient.

Just as he opens his new restaurant in a busy part of Athens, Alkis has to shut it down due to restrictions imposed by the lockdown in Greece. Forced to slow down, he acquires new skills, including learning to sleep more.

When air travel comes to a halt in the Philippines, flight attendant Rey starts to learn how to make cappuccino and how to communicate with people, who are hearing impaired.

When Wenni and Dominic are ready to start their new life abroad, they test positive.

Journalist Didem Tali on how the pandemic threatened her career, meddled with her ADHD and the mechanisms she developed to cope with the lock down.

Probably never before have societies and individuals around the globe had to react to a crisis that affects everyone in similar ways. While the common narrative around the pandemic is one of social distancing, emphasizing the importance to isolate from other people, our podcast will focus on the under-reported flipside: we’re all in this together.

This project picks up the uniqueness of this unprecedented situation and addresses the potentials of this common ground, beyond national or cultural borders.