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The Motherload Project was featured by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

The Motherload: Shouldering the burden of unpaid care work

IDRC-supported research in South Africa seeks to combat gender norms and influence policymaking around care work.

Nomboniso Bunu sighed as she kneaded dough into a ball and dropped it into a pan of boiling water. It was 8 o’clock in the morning in an informal settlement on the southern edge of Cape Town, South Africa. Already, she had been working non-stop for the past two and a quarter hours. She made various types of breakfasts for her three sons, prepared school bags and lunchboxes, fetched and boiled water for bathing, dressed her kids, played games with her youngest, did the washing up, changed the bedding and hung out the laundry. And her day was only just getting started.

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