Today we played an interview we had with Marietta De Vaal – Head of Research Unit from the Commission on Gender Equality. The commission is planning workshops and Gender Dialogues to be conducted throughout the country as a means of reaching out to the community and at the same time change the mind sets of those members of the society that need education in relation to gender equality. For more information you can contact them at 021 426 4080 /3 or their Johannesburg office at (011) 403 7182 or visit their website at www.cge.org.za
Our last interview was with Laura Van der Pohl. Laura is a Resource Development Officer from the Community Resource Organisation and they help women in different communities by running a range of empowerment programmes. They are currently running an income genrating project called Mama’s Coin Factory. The project aims to develop and implement reliable, convenient and creative models of coin collection to create sustainability for the grassroots women’s savings network. For more information you can contact the organisation at 447 6757 or if you want more information about the mama’s coin factory you can email to info@mamascoinfactory.org.za
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