Youth to film gender-based violence
ALEXANDRA - Women, youth and children’s organisations and the Department of Arts and Culture will partner in a filming festival to raise awareness on gender based violence and the abuse of children.
Women, youth and children’s organisations and the Department of Arts and Culture will partner in a filming festival to raise awareness on gender-based violence and the abuse of children.
The event set for 6 December will be their contribution to the annual national commemoration of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence which runs from 25 November to 10 December. Also, it will relate with the international AIDS day held on 1 December.
Women and child abuse continue unabated despite protective legislation and enabling programmes for gender equality and children’s rights. For this to happen, more awareness and other concrete and ongoing educational programmes are required. The organisation which includes Kidz Clinic, Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training, South African National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency and Lovelife are using all available opportunities to keep raising the public’s conscience on these groups’ vulnerability to harm in the home, community, workplace and other public places.
Elizabeth Mokoena of Kidz Clinic said the event which will be at Sankopano Community Centre will comprise dialogues on the different abuses such as neglect, and drug and alcohol abuse and their impact. “The occasion will be filmed by local youths with the assistance of professional film makers. The films will convey messages for use in raising further awareness among residents on these forms of abuse. In the process, the youths will also acquire film making skills which can be developed into a profession and also develop their sensitivity to gender equality from an early age,” she said.
The event will happen simultaneously with a similar one in Umtata, Eastern Cape.
Details: Kidz Clinic 011 321 7614.
