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GRIP - Rape Intervention Project
GRIP was established in 2000, in response to the high levels of rape and the concordant high levels of HIV/AIDS infection, transferred to predominantly child rape survivors. GRIP is a NPO/CBO registered with the Department of Welfare, which was initiated by volunteers, and offers...
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Agenda Feminist Media Project
The Agenda Feminist Media Project was founded in 1987. It began as a journal, the initiative of a small group of women activists and academics working in and around Durban.  The project has developed over the years to include four programmes and a website.
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Association for Community and Rural Advancement (ANCRA)

The Association for Community and Rural Advancement land service and rural development organisation working with poor and landless communities in the Northern Cape and North West provinces. Land rights, land access and socio-economic rights are critical issues in South Africa. Denial...

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Engender
Engender is focused on changing patterns of violence (including gender-based violence), and inequality in South African society, and the necessary transformation from victimhood to agency.
We are doing this through a combination of research into the root causes of these...
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Gender Education and Training Network. (GETNET)

GETNET is a unique initiative in South Africa's struggle for democracy. In its focus on women's empowerment and men's gender training, GETNET is at the forefront of social transformation strategy in South Africa. Building skills, expertise and capacity in gender training GETNET is...

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Geneva Crisis Centre
Geneva Crisis Centre was opened in May 2001 at Malibu Village after doing a survey and identifying that most family violence stems from gangsterism, unemployment, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse. The Crisis Centre moved to bigger premised in April 2003, at Eerste River, where up to...
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Keletsong Community Training and Resource Centre
Keletsong was initiated in November 1999, after a survey and consultative meetings which pointed to the need for Early Childhood Development services in the North West province. In 200 we operated from a local church. Then in 2001 we rented the offices in Temba, to date. Our target...
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Kopano Women Venture
Kopano Women Venture was established on the 29th of January 2002. the aim was to reduce the rate of unemployment and unlocking women’s potential by empowering them with job creation skills. The project is based in Morokweng.
 
The project was formed...
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Life Link Pregnancy Crisis Centre
Life Link Pregnancy Crisis Centre offers assistance to any women facing an unplanned pregnancy. We offer various services which include free pregnancy testing, pregnancy crisis counselling, pre & post adoption counselling, adoptions, pre & post abortion counselling,...
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Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre for Women

Mosaic’s full name is the Mosaic Training Service and Healing Centre for Women. Mosaic following from the art form stands for helping abused women putting together the pieces of their broken lives to become whole and live life to its fullest again. Today the organisation is has...

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Nala Partners for Entrepreneurship

Operating since 2002 in South Africa and Germany, Nala Partners aim to integrate profit generation for their enrolled entrepreneurs with meaningful social engagement, offering members and partners opportunities to engage in sustainable business development, transformation...

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Naqshbandi Muhammadi Order of South Africa

In feeling responsible to Allah Almighty for all we do, we should dread to want to deviate from this principle, and we should dread to want to make others deviate from this principle. The path (the tariqah) that we walk within his law to change hearts, should only be...

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Neo-Birth Care Centre
Touch Community Network trading as Neo Birth Care Centre has been founded in 1996 as a care center which led to various community projects and services. These projects are managed from 143 Bethlehem Drive, Rustenburg. This Care Centre has reached out to communities in the...
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North West Network on Violence against Women
The North West Network on Violence comprises of an office in Tlhabane with member organizations both in urban and in rural areas. We provide support, Advocacy networking and training to Non-Profit Organizations, to Community Based Organisations in North West in violence against...
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North West Network on Violence against Women
The latest statistics from the South African Police Services (SAPS) indicate that one in every four South Africans are victims of crime at present.  Whilst many non-profit organisations (Non Profit Organisation’s) aim to prevent crime and deal with the many victims of abuse,...
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Place of Hope

Every six hours, a South African woman is killed by her intimate partner, and one in every four suffers from abuse in their homes on a daily basis. In the Cape Metropolis alone, 40% of women are unemployed, a large number of whom are trapped in an abusive relationship.

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Positive Women's Network

In 1996, 60 women who were diagnosed HIV positive decided to join hands in Garankuwa Hospital, located in the Northwest of Pretoria, to form a support group which in February of the same year gave birth to Positive Women's Network.

 

The organisation started as...

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Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust

Established in 1976, the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust is one of the oldest and most experienced organisations working within the sphere of violence against women. One hundred and fifty five women report rape on a daily basis in South Africa and it is further estimated that one in...

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St. Annes Homes

St. Anne's Homes in existence for more than 100 years seek to provide a comprehensive, empowering, humane approach to sheltering pregnant, abused and homeless women and their children. Over the many years we have transformed ourselves to ensure that our approach and intervention...

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The Carpenters Shop  
The school of industry, originally brought into being with a grant of 500 pounds from Lady Catherine Bell, closed in 1975 after being in existence for 133 years. After lying destitute and somewhat derelict for five years, the Trustees granted the use of this large building to The...
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The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children

The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children was opened in May 1999 as the first multi–disciplinary (one-stop) centre for women, youth and children in the country.

 

Working in partnership with non-profit organisations and government departments, the...

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Think Twice
Think Twice develops and facilitates sexuality lifestyle education programmes for learners in primary and high schools, predominantly in under resourced communities, at no cost to the school.
 
Think Twice has been involved in working in High Schools since 1998 and...
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Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme
In 1997, the Thohoyandou Community Policing Forum together with the South African Police Services initiated the establishment of a Victim Empowerment Committee in accordance with the provisions of the National Crime Prevention Strategy. With seed funding from the Department of...
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Wola Nani

It is within the context of South Africa having the largest burden of HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa that Wola Nani works towards its vision of seeing the quality of life of persons living with HIV/Aids improved to an extent that they are living positively, with hope....

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Women in Creative Industries-NamNawe Project

Introduction and background South Africa continues to present the world with its most formidable development challenge. With a total population of over 40 million people women constitute more than half of the population. Most of these women and youths live in the rural areas of the...

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WomensNet

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

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Administration ( R 10 000)

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Construction expenses

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Gardening Equipment and seeds for people Living with HIV & AIDS  

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Life Link Pregnancy Crisis Centre

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Men and Masculinity Pub;ic event focusing on the Youth

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Mosaic Marketing Wishlist

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Operations for Place of Hope

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Paper Request

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Saartjie Baartman Materials

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Saartjie Baartman Shelter

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Saartjie Baartman Shelter lounge refurbishment

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

Zizamele

Women'sNet Approach

The Women'sNet model rests on three pillars, information generation linked to networking and capacity building. In the context of building networks for action, this is a tried and tested developmental model for ICT work, and has...

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