Sonke Gender Justice


  

With gender-based violencestill active in society today, people are still not educated well on this matter. Sonke Gender Justice is determined to educate the public on this social matter more.

 

Formed in 2006 Sonke Gender Justice is a woman’s Organisation that strives towards feminist principles. The organisations purpose is to address, respond and to prevent gender-based violence and fights against the discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS. The organisation is made up of different units such as research monitoring, evaluation and learning, policy development unit, advocacy unit and an operations unit. The Organisation also works regionally in Africa.

 


In a case where people are using violence as their right to justice against women and children, Sonke creates sessions for people, allowing them to be more educated on the effects that can lead after an act of violence; this promotes the opportunity of change for these people to find more positive ways to deal with situations.

 


Sonke Gender Justice runs a men’s wellness clinic in Gugulethu and at this wellness centre, the wellness centre focuses on men’s health and safety, one of the activities that the wellness centre has is addressing social issues within their communities.

 

The Organisation uses their communication strategies in school classrooms; they had the opportunity to have an advocacy session with the learners of Kasselsvlei High School during the school holiday period, about the social issues that happen in their communities, giving the youth advice on how to positively cope with these issues.

By Reece Adams

listen to the interview below


Presenter: Mkhuseli "Khusi" Veto
Producer: Reece Adams

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