A total of 23 clubs from in and around Mthatha, Eastern Cape met on Saturday the 21 November 2015 in Ngangelizwe at the Rotary Hall to commemorate World AIDS day.
A total of 23 clubs from in and around Mthatha, Eastern Cape met on Saturday the 21 November 2015 in Ngangelizwe at the Rotary Hall to commemorate World AIDS day.
There is a strong link between TB, HIV and alcohol, and the government needs to respond quickly to the call for more effort to be made in tackling this fatal link.
Once again the annual Soul City World Aids Day Race is happening again this year.
Soul City was one of many organisations who attended and participated at an International Men’s Day celebration organised by Department of Social Development at RC Elliot Hall in Galeshewe, Kimberley on the 19th November 2015. Other organizations in attendance were: loveLife Northern Cape, NACCW-Isibindi and FAMSA. The theme was “Working to expand reproductive options for me”.
The weeklong community asset mapping intervention held in September, 2015 in Louwville on the Cape West Coast identified the issue of alcohol as one of the foregoing concerns.
The extent of gender based violence in South Africa is rarely understood. It involves physical and psychological harm, humiliation, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other arbitrary deprivations of liberty - and its impact is chilling.
There is a strong link between TB, HIV and alcohol and government needs to respond quickly to the call for more effort to tackle the link according to a group of experts addressing a briefing hosted by the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication yesterday.
The Soul City Institute Community Based Monitoring Teams received their training certificates on 10th November 2015.
The event was held to encourage the Rise members to be confident and to raise awareness in the community about the Rise programme. Through this event they also wanted other girls who are not participating in Rise to join the clubs in the area. Currently there are 8 clubs in Hammanskraal.
On the 2nd November 2015 visited their local clinic to introduce the monitoring team to the local clinic committee and to post their latest Monitoring Chart.
Clinic Committee Training is a programme that Soul City runs with the Department of Health and is funded by the European Union. The aim basically is to help foster a good relationship between clinics (primary health care facilities) and the local communities that they serve in order to improve service delivery of clinics and community trust on the clinics.
On the 10th October 2015, Inolofatseng Young Women’s Club, a new club in Brooksby, North West, hosted its first event, which was also their implementation for their Action Plan for their community. The occasion held on a Saturday, was tackling the issue of Teenage Pregnancy among their youth in the community.