The unspoken bond of carers worldwide

The unspoken bond of carers worldwide

From Care fully considered by Laura Barnes and Katy Styles

April 8, 2025 · 34 min · Season 1 · Episode 11

About this episode

The episode discusses the work of Carers Worldwide and the experiences of Ruth Patil as she advocates for carers both in the UK and the global South.

In our latest episode of Care Fully Considered, we welcome Ruth Patil, the development director of Carers Worldwide, an organisation working with unpaid family carers in the global South. We discuss Carers Worldwide's important work and how she combines influencing the lives of carers overseas with advocacy work on behalf of parent carers in the UK, while caring for her daughter who has Down Syndrome. We talk about how important it is to find the commonality in care no matter where in the world takes place, and their huge policy victory in getting a Carers Allowance program set up in the Indian state of Karnataka.* You can find out more about Carers Worldwide here: LINK ( www.carersworldwide.org  )  and subscribe to their newsletter here: (LINK  https://carersworldwide.org/commit-to-carers?utm_source=emailsig&utm_medium=emailsig&utm_campaign=CommitToCarers  ) For any inquiries or to suggest future guests, please email us at:  wearecarers@gmail.com . Until next time! For more information on the We Care Campaign, visit us on:  https://wecarecampaign.org.uk/  and to find out what being an unpaid carer is really like, read Laura’s…

People in this episode

Hosts: Laura Barnes, Katy Styles

Guest: Ruth Patil

Topics covered

  • carers
  • advocacy
  • global South
  • policy victory
  • unpaid family care
  • commonality in care

Keywords

  • carers
  • Carers Worldwide
  • Ruth Patil
  • advocacy
  • Karnataka
  • Down Syndrome
  • unpaid care
  • policy victory

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carers Worldwide

Places: India, Karnataka

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