If you're in an abusive situation or know a woman who is being abused, the first step to getting out, is getting help. For Women is an information hub that offers access to a growing network of causes, all fighting to bring an end to woman abuse. Connect with any of them quickly and easily to get the help you need
Afrika Leadership Development Institute
Prevention
This institute strengthens leadership capacity, knowledge, skills and attributes to prevent and manage gender-based violence.
READ MOREBet Sheekoom
Provision
Bet Sheekoom runs a programme at the shelter for co-dependency, self-worth, skills development and job readiness. They also have a psychologist that visits once a week and talks are given monthly at the nearby Pregnancy Crisis Centre.
READ MORECentre for Community Justice and Development
Provision
CCJD provides access to legal advice, mediation, counselling and educational services, and negotiating with service providers on behalf of clients in rural areas. The main issues addressed are domestic violence, entitlements such as pensions and grants, labour rights and child abuse.
READ MOREChild Welfare Durban and District
Prevention
This welfare focuses on prevention, early intervention, statutory services and residential care. This includes awareness programmes and education of communities and key role players, programmes focusing on HIV/AIDS, counselling, therapy, mediation, foster placements and adoptions.
READ MOREChildline Gauteng
Provision
Childline Gauteng was established in 1987 in response to high rates of child abuse. Since then it has expanded its services to include human rights violations affecting children, women and families.
READ MOREDikeledi-Thokozile Foundation
Prevention
This foundation assists in taking women between 19 and 30 back to school so that they can complete their eduation. They also work with teenagers in a programme called "Young Woman You Are Worthy". Through this initiative, they teach women about relationships.
READ MOREDOCKDA Rural Development Agency
Prevention
We help Homebased Care Community Based organisations by providing capacity development & resources
READ MOREEpic Foundation
Provision
This foundation distributes essential toiletry items for rape survivors, to be used during the initial reporting phases. They also facilitate counselling, support groups, referrals for legal advice and court preparations, self-defense classes, motivational talks, education and awareness campaigns, and skills development for shelter ladies.
READ MOREFaith & Hope Foundation
Provision
The Faith & Hope Foundation helps the local community by providing necessities such as sanitary products, food, clothes, etc. The organisation also drives community development through the implementation of a range of education and leadership programmes.
READ MOREHalli Trust
Prevention
Halli Trust carries out educational programmes at schools to teach children about sexual and physical abuse.
READ MOREHealing Hands Foundation
Provision
This foundation created a feeding scheme for underprivileged youth and children. They also have a crisis centre for women and children, school gardening programmes, youth support (a student retention programme), and HIV/AIDS education, awareness and support.
READ MOREHome of Hope
Prevention
Home of Hope empowers women and the local youth through various projects. Their aim is to promote entrepreneurial skills and support community groups through counselling, interactive sessions, reading and writing, sport, and more.
READ MOREHope (stella from hope helping people everywhere )
Prevention
We help help families in need of food and baby stuff pram cot by giving out food and clothing and baby stuff kot pram
READ MOREI-Lead
Prevention
I-Lead helps women and children by providing free safety and self-defence training.
READ MOREInkwenkwezi Youth Development Sporting Foundation
Prevention
We help Youth in distress, in school and out of school by Youth Rights mainstreaming, sport and behavior change
READ MOREJohannesburg Dream Center NPC
Prevention
We help families in need by tackling issues such as hunger, unemployment and other.
READ MOREJust Grace
Prevention
We help grade 9 – 12 learners in the community of Langa by providing them with a high quality education programme
READ MOREKids Haven
Prevention
We help street connected children by changing their circumstances and their future
READ MORELawyers against Abuse (LvA)
Prevention
This group provides free legal services and psychosocial support to victims of gender-based violence. They work with state actors and have various community engagement projects to raise awareness of legal rights and remedies. They also provide legal advice via phone or email and make referrals counselling and therapy services.
READ MORELearn to Earn
Prevention
We help LtE's partners with unemployed people by offering training 13 skills development courses
READ MORELesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI)
Provision
LGBTI addresses hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons in South Africa. They also have a gender-based violence support group. They provide face-to-face and telephonic counselling.
READ MORELesedi la Batho
Provision
Lesedi la Batho offers three projects for vulnerable groups. These projects respectively offer emotional and practical support for current or former commercial sex workers; encourages and supports young mothers to stay in school; and work directly with teenage mothers, LGBTI community members, commercial sex workers and learners, to break the cycle of poverty.
READ MOREMasizakhe family centre
Prevention
We help alleviate poverty in our community by providing social welfare and leisure activities
READ MOREMeMeZa Shout
Prevention
MeMeZa Shout aids communities by providing and implementing affordable, innovative safety technology that seeks to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people in society.
READ MORENetwork Action Group
Prevention
Network Action Group (NAG) is a non-profit organisation based in Port Shepstone, South Africa. The group works closely with community-driven early childhood development (ECD) services based within marginalised communities, with the view to tackling the problems of inequality.
READ MORENew loveLife Trust
Provision
New loveLife Trust helps young people through the promotion of advocacy for healthy living and active lifestyles, and through the building of continued awareness for the prevention of teen pregnancy and HIV infection.
READ MOREOptimystic Bikers against Abuse MCC
Prevention
We help victims of abuse by providing support services and practical assistance.
READ MORERape Crisis
Provision
Established in 1976, Rape Crisis is a leading organisation in South Africa working within the area of adult rape and sexual assault crisis support. Rape Crisis assists victims with the healing process, and their ‘road to justice’, with various professionally developed programmes and counselling services.
READ MORERata Social Services NPC
Provision
Rata Social Services NPC helps children at risk by rendering comprehensive services that fulfill both preventative and statutory function. With them, the best interest of the child is always paramount.
READ MORESakhulwazi Foundation
Prevention
We help Local orphans and underprivileged children by Extra care and Educational programs
READ MORESistagirl Foundation
Prevention
We help primary schools in semi rural and rural areas by by giving rural school learners bicycles&repair skills
READ MORESTAND
Provision
STAND provides treatment and support programmes to the victims - individuals, children, youth and families – of substance abuse, and sexual and violent abuse in the most impoverished and disadvantaged communities in the Western Cape, South Africa.
READ MORETEARS Foundation
Provision
This foundation specialises in the development of a nationally-accessible assistance and support network for survivors of rape and sexual abuse. They provide 24-hour access to information about where to find medical, legal and psychological support for victims of rape and sexual abuse, free of charge. They also seeks to create awareness and facilitate the transformation of attitudes and values, so that sexual abuse of any kind becomes unacceptable in our society.
READ MOREThe Angel Network
Provision
The Angel Network is a voluntary organisation, run solely using the power of social media, with the goal to creating a ‘gateway for giving’. The platform is easily accessible to anyone who wants to join, and who wants to do a little more, and give a little more.
READ MOREThe Character Company
Prevention
This company primarily works with boys with absent fathers. They offer weekly activities, but also follow a long-term mentorship approach. In addition, they aim to provide a support structure for single mothers, and advocate the better treatment of women and children.
READ MOREThe Equinox Trust
Provision
The Equinox Trust has designed four specific programmes in the areas of youth at risk, abused women, carers and mental health professionals and those affected by HIV/AIDS. They also run programmes involving the South African Police Services and a nearby psychiatric hospital.
READ MOREThe Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
Prevention
We help youth & people from different racial and gender groups by identifying and implementing interventions across SA.
READ MOREThe Jes Foord Foundation
Provision
The Jes Foord Foundation works to help turn victims of rape, molestation and sexual assault into empowered survivors through education, awareness and support.
READ MOREThe Viva Foundation of South Africa
Prevention
This foundation launched a sexual violence prevention and response programme, and they have developed several awareness and victim-empowerment materials. They also facilitate a project whereby panic buttons are distributed in the community, combined with trained community response to vulnerable households.
READ MOREUitkoms Home for Girls
Provision
Uitkoms Home for Girls is a registered Child and Youth Care Centre that has the precious undertaking of offering shelter, protection, professional counselling, and life guidance to teenage girls from disadvantaged backgrounds. Uitkoms offers intensive, holistic, specialised care that caters for physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs. Through the implementation of structured life skills and educational programmes, we equip these girls with the tools they need for a successful re-integration into their communities, and broader society, and, where possible, to find acceptance from their families. Our aim is to develop the girls into productive, self-sustaining citizens.
READ MOREWoman INpowered
Preparation
Woman INpowered (WIP) is a simple, easy-to-learn, yet devastatingly effective self-INpowerment system which provides women with knowledge, expertise and tools to protect themselves if they’re ever in imminent danger.
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