Single mums feel 'invisible' in coronavirus crisis

Pototschnik with a photo book displaying the food she used to offer in her catering business. Photos: AFP

For over a decade, the 51-year-old has run a small business doing backstage catering at concerts and festivals. Pototschnik is burning through her savings and is baffled by how quickly her successful life has turned to despair.Having just rejoined the workforce this year after separating from her husband, the 47-year-old was still on probation as a category manager in purchasing when the pandemic shut schools, keeping her seven-year-old daughter home.

Thirty percent of single mums in salaried employment have had to take leave for lack of childcare, compared with 19% of other parents. They are also more likely to have stopped working altogether.The North Rhine-Westphalia branch of the VAMV, an association for single parents, said Chancellor Angela Merkel's government should offer more targeted and longer-term aid to prevent single mums from"falling into the poverty trap".

Catering manager Lulu Pototschnik works in her apartment in Essen, western Germany. The 51-year old has gone from catering for big stars like Tote Hosen to absolutely nothing after the pandemic erased all events off the calendar.

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