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IT CANNOT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL!
A week ago, Lydia and I travelled 1400km to Maseru and back, armed with vehicle documents, PCR tests, yellow fever cards, and passports. We landed up at the most amazing place for accommodation, called Kick4Life. Inspired and exhausted, we met up with the rest of the South African delegates to plan our session for Monday with the African Committee of Experts on Rights and Welfare of Children (ACERWC). There were seven of us, including two children, who each spoke to aspects of the AU Complimentary Report the South African National Child Rights Coalition (SANCRC) submitted in October 2022 to the ACERWC.
I spoke on VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN in SA. I made my minutes count as I spoke the difficult and uncomfortable truth of the horrific situation in our country, having shared and been part of thousands of children's lives that have been devastated for life, and irreversibly damaged because of violence against them. We have held babies, abandoned, naked, soiled, and almost lifeless - a two-month-old baby raped, damaged for life, and four siblings aged between two to nine years old, so badly beaten (for taking money to buy chips because they were hungry), we had to soak them in a bath of water to remove their clothes. 😭
On the 10th of October 2022, Bokgabo Poo, aged four, was raped, murdered and her body dismembered. The Sowetan published a front-page headline asking the question: “How many more must die?” Every year child rape and murder statistics rise between seven to 37%... SHOCKING! The report we tabled had more statistics and an earnest plea that change has to come, and Civil Society has to be recognised and be part of that, as government is failing our children.
Every child deserves at least one adult who is crazy about them, and every adult needs a community to help them raise a child, and every community needs a government that drives, plans and upholds policy and the law.
CHILD PROTECTION IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS!
Love,
Monica ❤️
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Thank you, thank you, thank you... Monica Woodhouse ! You and your team are amazing and certainly, one child at a time, you ARE making a difference. xx
As it is said: whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine , you did for me ❣
Monica Woodhouse ❤️🔥😭😭
#TeachYourChildren
Every child should know that any type of violence is NEVER ok. Be a role model and teach your children to:
• recognise both aggression and violence e.g. name-calling, bullying, hitting, pinching and pushing
• understand that there is no excuse for violent and aggressive behaviour from peers. Teach them to say “Stop, I don’t like it …”
• never defend rough behaviour by saying “boys will be boys” and “x did not mean to hurt you.”
• resolve conflicts using words and problem-solving and don’t forget to do so yourself
• praise them when they are using words and skills to sort out problems instead of hitting, screaming and so on
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Yesterday was #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisability ❤️
Quality, holistic, integrated care and children services, drastically improve the quality of life of children and their overall well-being. At Give a Child a Family (GCF), this is exactly what we aim to do in the lives of each child in our care. GCF is a short-term temporary safe care home for vulnerable children who have been neglected, abused, and/or abandoned. Some of the children have physical and mental disabilities, are severely malnourished and developmentally delayed because of neglect/abuse, have serious chronic medical conditions, and have endured severe emotional and mental trauma.
GCF is a safe haven where children can thrive, focus on being a child, and where diverse interventions aid in their overall developmental and recovery process – physically, mentally/cognitively, emotionally and spiritually. Compassionate, nurturing, love and care form the foundation of our relationship with the children. Together with key components such as appropriate childcare, medical, therapeutic, counselling, developmental, educational, statutory and family services, our multi-disciplinary team follows a holistic approach to the care plan for each child, from admission to final placement back with a suitable family member, foster care or other forms of suitable alternative placements.
Early, appropriate child-specific integrated care and intervention are associated with greater improvements in children’s long-term quality of life into adulthood, often bringing an end to the cycle of neglect and abuse; when compared to those receiving standard care. Unfortunately, as we know, too many vulnerable children in need, receive very little, or no appropriate care and interventions, hence the vital need to rescue, restore, empower, and invest in the lives of our precious children, who, in the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest treasure and asset as a nation’. ❤️
Read Joy and Emmanuel's stories here: www.gcf.org.za/defying-the-odds-joys-story/
www.gcf.org.za/a-miracle-child-emmanuels-story/
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Defying the odds - Joy's story - Give a Child a Family
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Since birth, life has not been easy for this brave, little girl. Joy* was abandoned in the hospital at birth and as a result, she was placed in a child and youth care centre and later in unrelated fos...Comment on Facebook
The gift that keeps on giving, a gesture of LOVE! ❤️
The second candle of Advent is called the Candle of Love. It is lit in remembrance of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem. Many of the people in our communities have travelled long, hard roads and we are called to help them strengthen their capacity to care for and nurture their families.
Your gift changes lives and makes a difference in our communities, where we work to raise awareness, assist with services and prevent family breakdown, because #FamiliesMatter!
Make a Christmas Promise with us to change lives and make a lasting difference! ❤️
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www.gcf.org.za/donate/
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#appreciationpost
Thank you Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund for including us in the Isondlo Child Nutrition Initiative, which through Tiger Brands assists with food hampers to struggling families.
Approximately 12 million people in South Africa go hungry every day, among them, children suffer the most. Stunted and malnourished children are common and thanks to this initiative GCF can help some of them in our area over a period of nine months.
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#WorldAIDSDay
This year's theme for World AIDS Day is “Rock the Ribbon.” ❤️
The National AIDS Trust is committed to stopping new cases of HIV, securing the rights of people living with HIV, and fighting HIV stigma and discrimination.
World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.
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