2011 Report - Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children

weekly support groups, which provided a platform to share
their experiences of abuse with other women.
The psychology and social work interns assess the women
who come to SBC for help, see on-going clients, and
co-facilitate support groups and psycho-educational
workshops for residents and women from the surrounding
communities. The Centre greatly appreciates the services
the interns provide.
Fatima and Dorothea will continue with the successful
education and awareness-raising workshops held with
learners and teachers in surrounding schools. They also
supervise the psychology and social work interns, and share
the responsibility for further outreach (talks, presentations
and workshops) with other SBC staff members.
During the past year, the Centre provided services to 1 437
new and 942 repeat clients, totalling 2 379 (See Figure 1
below for monthly client intakes). One hundred and sixty-
eight of these received at least 8-10 sessions of ongoing
counselling for domestic violence and mental health issues.
Since February 2011, the project has also been providing
counselling for residents and support group meetings for
residents and Centre clients.
figure 1. Centre clients aug 2010-July 2011
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The project ran ten GBV awareness-raising
workshops with 110 grade 5 and 6 learners from Cedar
Primary School in Bonteheuwel, which helped to
equip them with life skills and personal development.
One hundred and sixty learners participated in our
Air Your Dirty Laundry Campaign on 10 December
2010, which involved painting messages advocating
an end to violence, on T-shirts. The project ran GBV
awareness-raising talks, training and workshops with a
total of 1 255 people, including nursing students (See
Figure 2).
Figure 2. GBV education to civil society organisations and
businesses
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Number of people who benetted
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Talks Basic counselling
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We were lucky to have assistance from eleven students
and two volunteers from local and international
universities, who fulfilled either a Psychology or Social
Work internship in the programme. We would like to say
a big ‘Thank You’ to Preshema Seupawl, Silindile Motaung,
Zeenat Osman, Fazeelah Osman, Estelle Badenhorst,
Taryn McKellar, Tristan Wever, Stella Mokitimi,
Erine Bröcker, and Aleksandra Djordjevic (Germany),
Maria Nyström, Marie Palm and Jonna Back (all from
Sweden) for your hard work and dedication. New
interns currently with us are Jill Ryan, Gadijah Khan and
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Agnes Jones; also Valeria Markova from Norway.
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