Community Conversations Highlights NMF Community Conversations 2010

TEAM KLTG MOTLATSI LEKHULENI

Communities and Teams Limpopo – Khakhala Village North West – Lerome Free State – Thabanchu Northern Cape - Galeshewe

2010 Highlights - Khakhala Tribal Authority Khakhala Local Clinic 13 – 19 August 117 Tested 20 – 26 August 124 Tested Recreation Facilities Community Moral Facilitators – Mandela Day – 710 Total CC Attendance.

2010 Highlights - Lerome Gender Inequality Task Team – Womens Month Facilitators – Mandela Day 2010 – 655 Total CC Attendance

2010 Highlights - Thabanchu Prostitution Taverns Crime – Rape & Mugging Facilitators – Mandela Day 2010 – 760 Total CC Attendance

2010 Highlights - Galeshewe Teenage Pregnancy & Criminal Activities. Taverns. New Start. Youth Aids. Facilitators – Mandela Day – 925 Total CC Attendance.

Lessons Learnt Communities & Capacity Similar concerns – No blanket solutions Dialogue – Community owned solutions Unity – Powerful communities

Thank You

TEAM KSM SIVIWE KHABA

COMMUNITIES GAUTENG – KLIPTOWN GAUTENG – SOSHANGUVE MPUMALANGA – MHLUZI

KLIPTOWN HIGHLIGHTS 40 tested Stakeholder Partnerships Task Team Launch HCT campaign Pre schools and Schools Outreach Disclosure Gender equality Tribute to women on womens month Involvement of the community in support groups to offer more support to the infected. Committee {supervision}.

SOSHANGUVE HIGHLIGHTS Formation of groups in schools. Continuity in dialogues Lack of Communication Facilitators establishing an organization. Tribute paid to women on womens month Substance Abuse. [partnership with SANCA] Establish partnerships. Competition Sense of belonging Peer education

MHLUZI Human rights workshop. Creation of a safe space. Establishment of organization (s). Recreational activities Recreational facilities Resentment.

LESSON LEARNT A need to promote dialogue within the families (households) set up. Need for a healing process within the communities. United we stand and divided we fall Communication is key in any sphere of our lives. Abstinence Community owned solutions could be sustainable

CONCLUSION I THANK YOU

TEAM KEW LESLEY NKOSI

4 COMMUNITIES THREE PROVINCES KWA-ZULU NATAL – KWA-MAKHUTHA EASTERN CAPE – NGANGELIZWE EASTERN CAPE – EMANTLANENI VILLAGE WESTERN CAPE - LANGA TOWNSHIP

KwaMakhutha 2010 highlights: Poverty Functionality of the clinic Functionality of the police station Youth & Culture (Virgin testing effectiveness) Drug abuse (Woonga)

Ngangelizwe (Mthatha) 2010 Highlights Poverty Unemployment Issues with the clinic Drug Abuse

Emantlaneni Village (Lusikisiki) 2010 Highlights Rape and Murder cases of girl children Clinic functionality (Unavailability of ARV treatment) Formation of Action Teams Improved relations with SAPS

Langa Township (Cape Town) 2010 Highlights Alcohol and drug abuse Rape of grandmothers Fear of disclosure Lack f confidence – clinic staff Testing

LESSONS LEARNT Communities have little or no faith in the public health system (all areas) There is a problem with DRUGS in all communities (peri-urban and urban) Access to ARVs generally a problem Link between substance abuse and rape and other violent crimes Except in Rural areas where rape is as a result of persistent myths and culture Causes of the spread of HIV and other social injustices are deeply rooted in the fibre of society

LESSONS LEARNT – cont. The wounds of any community can be healed through Community Dialogues (Strength through unity) Culture can be challenged to work for communities in the fight against wrong. Communities are capable of bringing change Poverty is never an excuse. Moral rejuvenation is possible. Individuals can grow (one individual value changed = whole community value change) Partnerships are crucial

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