PayFast SA one of our payment portals for donations, celebrated their 15th Birthday..our beneficiaries helped us to make this Happy Birthday video for them..it also gives you a glimpse of what we are doing in Wolwerivier in the Western Cape! ,
“Self Mastery” for me by me
The journey of Self or Personal Mastery is a life long one and one of the greatest gifts we can ever give ourselves. • Personal Mastery is our ability to realise that life, people and situations are multi-faceted and that our opinion and perceptions (cognitive bias) are but one part of the bigger picture. • Personal Mastery allows us to …
A Guidance Booklet for Family and Friends
It is extremely difficult for family and friends to see a loved one go through abuse and not know how to stand by them. Charlie Bezuidenhout-Hollingsworth is an avid activist in the fight against Gender Based Violence. Being raised in a home where violence was the order of the day, Charlie spends much of her free time actively researching and …
Humanity vs Legislation
Is it even possible to legislate humanity? The more I read regarding the state of world affairs and the lack of response from governments, especially our own, it is becoming clearer to me that our solution for the scourge of Gender Based Violence is not going to lie in legislation. Effective legislation and the implementation thereof, is costly and time …
Teeny Weeny Steps
I was asked recently what I thought the reasons were for the high rate of Gender-Based Violence and femicide in South Africa. The short answer is that it is impossible to pinpoint one reason only. And exactly because the reasons are multiple, the solutions have to be multi-faceted too. If we consider only the fact that nearly 60% of women in …