Meetings, Workshops and Networking
Workshops and Meetings
The Childrens Rights Centre runs a workshop
The full Woza Moya team continues to meet regularly around a number of issues. Recently, for example, we have reached a point of crisis with our Social Welfare offices. We have discovered layers of bribes and corruption in our community and also in the Department, preventing the poorest people from accessing Social Pensions and Grants which are due to them. After continually being fobbed off by the head of the Ixopo Social Welfare offices, we have had meetings with the Regional Head and have also sought help and advice from many other NGOs.
Other meetings have been around the issues of poverty and hunger, children not in school, on going training on current epidemics like TB and cholera. On a lighter note we have also been meeting fairly regularly to practice for a CD that we hope to make for fund raising purposes.
Networking with other NGO's in the Sisonke Region
Increasingly the elderly are having to carry the burden of caring for the orphaned vulnerable children. This programme was initiated by the Woza Moya project in 2002 so that we could find out about, learn from and share resources with other NGOs in the same or similar field of work. 10 NGOs were identified and 9 attended the first meeting hosted by the Woza Moya project. Every 2 months representatives from all these projects meet at a different project site and learn about that particular project's work. The 2nd Sisonke meeting was held at Centocow Mission where there is a HBC and craft development project. The 3rd meeting was hosted by Maskhulisane project, working in the areas of skills development. The 4th meeting will take place at Reichenau Mission where The Womens' Leadership and Training project operates from.