13 March – Human Rights

Today we spoke to Neville Sabor – from the Elsies River community advice office. The advice office provides the previously disadvantaged communities and organisations with advice, advocacy help and help with issues such as human rights, family and labour law, accessing government social grants, environmental problems and youth issues. The aim of the office is to create more awareness in the community on their rights and wants people to develop skills to improve their quality of life. So if you want more information about the community advice office you can contact their office at (021) 933 4494.

And we also spoke to Fatima Hassan – An attorney from Aids Law Project. The Aids law project wants to promote equality and justice for all. Their main focus is on people living with HIV and AIDS. They experience a lot of discrimination in the workplace, proper medical treatment and their rights are usually violated. The aids law project helps people with aids to deals with these issues. If you want more information about the organisation you can contact their offices at (011) 356-4100 or email them at mailto:info@rapcan.org.zaalternatively you can visit their website at www.alp.org.za

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Our last interview was with Evelyn Walters - Mitchell’s Plain Community Development Worker. Evelyn will be facilitating workshop on getting to know your rights and improving the quality of services that the Mitchell’s Plain community receive. The workshops take place every Thursday until the 19th of April at the Oliphanshoek Community Hall in Tafelsig from 11AM to 1PM. So if you want to know more about those workshops you can contact her at (021) 391 7124.