FOCUS: Asanda Molose a qualified and registered Social Worker
Asanda is a true community builder.
As we celebrate women’s month, we look at some of the women who strive to make a difference in the community. Talk about an active citizen, Asanda Molose a qualified and registered Social Worker is a true definition of a community builder.
With a multi-layered skill set such as poetry and children’s storytelling, facilitation and mentorship, Molose has found a way to give back to the community and bring a positive change.
“I currently teach and facilitate life skills at MoAfrika Ithlokomele three times a week. I also run Gender-based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights talks every Monday and Friday mornings at the Micheal Maponya Clinic.
I’m an active citizen in the community in that we also run a company called Bantu Thoughts where we teach Black Consciousness as well as African Literature to high school learners around Pimville high schools every Wednesday afternoon,” Molose said.
Molose was raised in a small town in Lesotho called Barkly East.
“Growing up, I was the only great-grandchild, my mother was involved in politics and was annihilated in what was called the Barkly East Massacre in 1991. So, my uncle, her youngest brother took me in, exposed me to a much-upgraded education in Johannesburg, where he lived.
I seized the opportunity and allowed God’s grace to stir me on from then because I was very active in church serving as an usher and choir member for 7 years,” she said.
“During my years at university, I served a lot of communities both in East London and out; where we read for children and taught them how to write poetry and short stories for about 4 years until I graduated from Fort Hare in 2015 with an Honours in Social Working.
During the same year, I joined a national network of young people called Activate! Change Drivers and undertook a leadership training course with them for a year,” she added.Molose reckons that Activism is carrying about one’s surroundings and having an input and the Gender-Based Violence talks, as well as Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights talks she gives weekly at the clinics, extend that care.
“I think any person who cares about nation-building would agree, but the change must occur in those with whom the talks are held. People engage in the sessions and many of them begin to divulge incidences, where they have been victims of IPV (intimate partner violence) and or, have experienced hate crimes within the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex Pansexual (LGBTQIA) community.
So, them breaking the socialised silence around Gender-based violence is one step toward change, but what we desire is sustainable change,” she said.
These are some of the women who should be celebrated, Big Ups Asanda!
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