The health crisis unleashed by COVID-19 has dramatically revealed that vulnerability and interdependence are the basis of human relationships; highlighting that care -and the effects that this has on who provides it and who receives it- does not depend only on a person, but on the networks in which they participate. Confinement has made it more difficult to access basic support networks and informal meetings in public spaces, since social networks and interactions (social fabric) are seen as a key element in contagion. However, practices of voluntary reciprocity and solidarity between neighbors have continued, which have been organized more or less formally depending on the neighborhood or municipality, and which in some cases have given rise to organized networks of mutual support (Cano- Hila & Argemí-Baldich, 2020). During the first weeks of the state of alarm, solidarity initiatives arose at the community level (neighborhood support and solidarity network to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its confinement measures) that, in some cases, were encouraged, although limiting certain types of of activities. These networks made it possible to support the elderly and children in terms of care, offering accompaniment, psychological support and basic material resources for groups especially affected by confinement.
This is where community and neighborhood care networks, despite not having specialized knowledge of health, play a key role for the survival of the pandemic. Knowing neighbors, favoring community organization at neighborhood scales, activating the effective stoppage of jobs with the highest level of contagion and building cooperative consumption and production networks, as well as being attentive to possible sexist violence is key to overcoming the crisis and resume political and social mobilization. The project will allow us to rethink the public and the private and their relationships. Within this framework, spaces for the common, for the collective, are essential, beyond individual responsibilities to deal with a structural crisis.