Educating Pimville residents on social ills perpetuating GBV
Dira Sengwe successfully hosted a Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) workshop to offer a platform for community and GBV victims to speak out about their ordeals. The purpose of the workshop was to educate the Pimville community about the social ills perpetuating Gender-Based Violence.
Dira Sengwe successfully hosted a Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) workshop to offer a platform for community and GBV victims to speak out about their ordeals. The purpose of the workshop was to educate the Pimville community about the social ills perpetuating Gender-Based Violence.
In attendance were GBV Non-Profit Organizations (NPO), Pimville Ward Councillors, churches, the SAPS (Kliptown), and the Pimville community. Different NPOs presented their services and after the presentations, there was a healthy and informative discussion between the hosts and community members.
Dira Sengwe was established in 2006 by Debra Malefane to help communities. This help would be through collaboration with churches, NGOs, NPOs, the government, and businesses in solving the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) pandemic in South Africa.
Speaking to Soweto Urban, Buti Segopa from Dira Sengwe, said collaborations between community-building organisations would be the key to finding sustainable solutions.
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“We needed to work with other organisations, this was one of the key areas of the project and an essential part of building our community. For example, we can have someone who is a victim of gender-based violence and would like to open a case against the perpetrator, but as Dira Swengwe alone we do not have that service, we can then maybe refer them to the SAPS or a Law firm that we are working with.”
In hopes for future workshops, Segopa said:
“Of course we would have wanted to reach more people, but due to Covid protocols, we could only allow a certain number of people at the venue. We do hope to continue the workshop and reach out to more people,” he said.
In terms of the feedback from the community, Segopa said he was grateful for the positive reception the community has shown towards the initiative.
“We received an overwhelming amount of support,” he said.
“People acknowledged what was being done and appreciated it. This is why we know that the workshop will continue as we seek to eradicate Gender-Based Violence in all its forms from our communities,” he concluded.
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