An event was organised by Sisters of Strength Rise Young Women's Club from Dimbaza near King Williams Town on Friday, 25th September 2015. The event was aimed at highlighting peer pressure as an issue young women face. The club invited all high schools around the area and youth around.
The Soul City Institute is continuing with the implementation of the Community Based Monitoring (CBM) programme.
Soul Buddyz Zululand District was having a Grade 7 Camp as a farewell and preparation for High School.
This weekend of 19 and 20 September we saw Soul City provincial teams continuing with support visits to Rise Clubs in particular in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu Natal.
This weekend of 19 and 20 September we saw Soul City provincial teams continuing with support visits to Rise Clubs in particular in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu Natal.
The Community Dialogues in Daveyton (17 September 2015) and Tembisa (19 September 2015) are part of the HIV combination prevention where we invite community members ( 100) per area to engage and discuss issues related risky sexual behaviours and increase in infection rate.
After the Soul City Health Institute revealed the commissioned study done with Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Group on gender based violence, there was a common feeling that post 1994, one of their impediments to fight gender based violence, was the lack of funding and their too-friendly relationship with the government.
The Rise Women’s Club offers victims the opportunity to speak about gender violence.
Soul City Head Office delivered “Money Matters” magazine to all Soul Buddy Clubs during August 2015. The aim of the material is to enhance club members knowledge and skills regarding all money issues for example: how to save, budgets, the value of money, etc.
The weekend of 12th September #TeamRiseMpumalanga did support visits to clubs in a number of Districts.
The need for a government and civil society coordinated response to gender-based violence was made strongly at a panel discussion hosted by the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication today.
The aim of the training is to refresh the clubs on how to run club , focusing more on the roles and responsibilities of facilitators, points systems and how to use the Soul Buddyz Club material.