Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Gender - Sex Workers embrace dignity

In today's show, we were joined by Priscilla Baleni – Programme coordinator at Embrace Dignity. She came with former sex workers - Lizzy, Mpho and Kelly*. Embrace Dignity is an organisation that is striving to assist prostituted women and men who want to exit the industry. They have formed Masiphakameni project, where they meet in groups weekly and share difficulties they had to face on their daily lives. For further information please contact Priscilla on (021) 422 4656 alternatively you can visit www.embracedignity.org.za or send an email to embracedignity@telkomsa.net

*Not their real names

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