CRAFT for a CAUSE Even as the pandemic continues to create havoc and devastate lives, the statistics of toll on lives is troubling. While governments are gearing up to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure, experts believe that the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. For many women, the pandemic means she has no work, no wages, and the family has been reduced to heartbreaking dependence on charity. Even as emerging stories of salary cuts, furloughs, unpaid leave and retrenchment are heart wrenching, the good part is that there are organisations and individuals who are putting efforts to address these issues in a bid to empower that segment of the population that is currently undervalued and underutilized. They have devised programs and initiatives to improve the lives of women and are attempting to build stronger communities. One such initiative named Stitch in Time -- a project to provide livelihoo