Issue 6 Articles
2010 World Cup Sony and Grassroots Soccer
During the 64 matches played from 11 June to 11 July 2010, Grassroots Soccer (2000GRS) provided over 14,500 children and adults with an unforgettable experience of a lifetime – the opportunity to attend the 2010 FIFA World Cup matches.
Knowledge exchange visit to Rio de Janeiro
In June 2010, a team of five Sonke staff members had the incredible opportunity to travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for a week long knowledge exchange visit. The team had an exceptional experience, sharing information and experiences with Instituto Promundo staff and different stakeholders working with men in promoting gender equality.
Artscape Women’s Festival
August is Women’s Month and as usual Sonke has been involved in a number of events supporting and celebrating this occasion. In the first week of August, we participated in the Artscape Women’s Festival, an annual event hosted at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town. We were invited to host three events at the festival, including the important Men’s Forum. Overall, the festival explored the theme “Love Responsibly” and workshops, activities and entertainment focused on this broad topic.
Unite As One Campaign for Safety and Justice
Following the xenophobic threats, attacks and violent outbursts across the country that occurred shortly after the World Cup ended, civil society organisations joined together to launch the Unite As One Campaign. The campaign is currently underway across the country to protect and affirm the rights of refugees and migrants in South Africa. In addition to raising awareness and mobilising communities to stand against xenophobia, the campaign aims to collect one million signed pledges against xenophobia, intolerance, intimidation and violence in South Africa. The nation-wide campaign kicked off in Cape Town on Mandela Day, 18 July, and will run until African Human Rights Day on 17 October.
Sonke launches Red Card Campaign against child sexual exploitation
On 9 June 2010, just days before the launch of the World Cup, Sonke officially launched the Red Card Campaign against Child Sexual Exploitation. The campaign was activated in a number of sites across Johannesburg and the Western Cape, with additional activities taking place in Port Elizabeth. In essence, the campaign seeks to reduce children, and especially girl’s, vulnerability to sexual exploitation in South Africa and elsewhere in Southern Africa. The initiative also seeks to increase awareness regarding sexual exploitation generally and increase the ability and willingness of people to intervene to prevent and/or report it.
Social Mobilisation for Brothers for Life Campaign is intensifying
In order to spread the Brothers for Life campaign message further across South Africa, Sonke with JHHESA and other partners, has over the past two months convened workshops of organisations working with men in eight provinces. The exception was Gauteng where there were communication challenges. Sonke is working hard to bring this province on par with others. In total, 25% of the participants were women. Driving these workshops was the need to sell Brothers for Life as a vehicle for organisations and government departments to use in their own campaigns as well as create space for the consolidation of the SANAC men’s sector in all provinces.
Recent Publications
Sonke has produced a number of new multi-media resources which are available free of charge, including:
Traditional Leaders’ Digital Stories and Facilitation Guide
Series of stories created by traditional leaders speaking about issue such as HIV, Equality and Violence against Women
Red Card Campaign Toolkit
The toolkit includes red cards, an instructional DVD, radio PSAs and other campaign materials and is available to people who complete the Red Card training
Way to Justice
Documentary on the importance of engaging men and boys in gender work. The documentary is accompanied by a discussion guide for facilitators.
Protection
This documentary explores attitudes towards condoms use in three Africa countries. It aims to stimulate discussion and debate without being didactic.
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Highlights
INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE: Sonke Director, Dean Peacock, presented at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna on male involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. He was joined by colleague, Patrick Godana, who presented on Fatherhood.
SAB CAMPAIGN RETRACTED: Sonke and civil society partners have forced SAB to retract their
INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE: Sonke Director, Dean Peacock, presented at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna on male involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (2000PMTCT) of HIV. He was joined by colleague, Patrick Godana, who presented on Fatherhood.
SAB CAMPAIGN RETRACTED: Sonke and civil society partners have forced SAB to retract their “Grootman vs Laaijtie” advertising campaign which promoted the drinking of excessive amounts of alcohol with being a ‘real man”. Details of the complaint can be found in Sonke's press release while SABs response is outlined here
POLICY CONFERENCE: Sonke has recently hosted the MenEngage Policy Conference in Johannesburg, bringing together people from across the sub-continent to discuss why and how to advocate for changes in policy and to promote policy implementation. The Conference concluded with an agreement on the policy priorities for MenEngage Africa.
