ABSTRACT

Abstract

The Covid-19 epidemic has come with its unique impact on the entire world. It has made people of various nations sick; some have died from it and some have survived. The guidelines aired on all Uganda TV stations include, washing hands with sanitisers, putting on masks, not to touching on sensitive areas like eyes, mouth and nose. Further to this, people are ordered to stay at home and motor vehicles of all types were barred from accessing roads. This was also crowned by closure of all business activities except for those selling food stuffs. These directives required families to stay home all through for a period which kept on being renewed. Usually, families meet during the night after either family member retiring from work. What appeared to be the situation during the lockdown is that families have got into conflicts and domestic violence. It appears that there are some factors controlling this entire unique trend in a lockdown. There is apparently no arrangement for community family support system in the government task force interventions. Neither do they have visuals like hand drawn illustrations to any support messages towards family support activities. This paper looks at the outcomes of this confinement on the institution called home. The reviewed literature, and through actively monitoring events reported in press, social media and the media to carry out an analysis. The paper recommends putting in place of counselling programs to run concurrently with health guidelines, family support systems to work with the COVID-19 task force as a reminder towards being mindful in this trying time plus incorporating visual awareness messages that have hand-drawn illustrations at grass-root level.

Keywords: Lock down, Family, domestic relations and violence, Hand drawn illustrations.