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COVID-19 and the Early Work of Wholeness & Justice

In May of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 lockdown, Wholeness and Justice began early-stage work to provide support to members of the LGBTI+ community from the resulting fallout. Initially, the scope of the programme’s work was aimed at helping LGBTI+ persons, displaced by the COVID restrictions, access Government relief services. However, the project soon expanded to included female sex workers, people living with HIV (PLHIV), and migrants regardless of sexual orientation. As the Caseworker for this project, I had a chance to see the impact of COVID in the daily lives of the communities we were serving; moreover, the ways in which these government systems exclude some of the more vulnerable members of its own citizenry. Killing Fields of Uncaring A needs assessment was done with over 60 persons, most of whom were recommended by the Trinidad and Tobago Trans Coalition, and comprised trans women, sex workers, and persons living with HIV. In some instances, persons fell into each category, and