08/08/2017: Women Empowerment a focus for the City of Johannesburg
As we celebrate Women’s Month, the City of Johannesburg has re-committed itself to playing a more proactive and supportive role in promoting the inclusion and development of women in the city. The City remains intent on increasing the range of activities that empower women.
The Department of Social Development in the Human and Social Development Cluster takes the strategic and practical lead in the implementation of the City’s Policy for Women Empowerment, in collaboration with all the other clusters in the City.
The Women Empowerment Policy is aimed at empowering all the women of Johannesburg, but more especially women who have, historically, been socially and economically disadvantaged. These vulnerable groups of women include:
• Illiterate and poorly-literate women;
• Impoverished women;
• Elderly women;
• Female and girl-headed households;
• Foreign migrant women;
• Women with disabilities;
• Domestic workers;
• Sex workers;
• LGBTI’s (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex).
Below are the programmes we’ll be running throughout our regions this Women’s Month:
We are working to address the capacity challenges of our programmes, and are taking an active role in ensuring that the needs of women in the City remain a priority throughout our tenure, and not only on special occasions.
Name of Program
Date
Time
Region
Venue
St Augustine’s Women’s Day Event
09 August 2017
12:00 -17:00
C
100 Christiaan De Wet Street, c/o Roodepoort Civic centre
Women in Sport and Self Defence
12 August 2017
10:00-15:00
F
Selby Village, Usher and Tramp Street
South Africa Is Still Safe For Women to Live in it
16 August 2017
10:00-15:00
G
Orange Farm Skills Centre
Women’s Month Event
16 August 2016
09:00-14:30
C
Roodepoort City Hall
WDS: “Today’s Young African Women”
17 August 2017
09:00- 14:30
D
Pimville Community Centre
Education On The Legal Framework That Protect Women’s Rights
17 August 2017
09:00-15:00
E
Altrek sports
Women’s Month Event
24 August 2017
10:00-15:00
A
Ivory Park resource centre
We care for our girls
24 August 2017
09:30-13:00
F
NG Kerk, Corner King & Gultimore Streets, Malvern
Education On The Legal Framework That Protect The Women’s Rights
26 August 2017
09:00-15:00
E
Masakane clinic
