Help Women Access Land and Rights in S. Africa
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Summary
Rural Women’s Movement assists women to acquire land and practice sustainable farming. They teach women their rights under South African law and how to access local health care, and skills training.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Rural women are often unaware of their rights under the constitution allowing them to own land, to access communal land and other basic rights. In the KwaZulu-Natal, patriarchal attitudes are strong within Zulu culture leaving women behind the incredible changes South Africa has experienced in the last 12 years. HIV/AIDS only exacerbates women’s ability to access their rights. Women are often blamed for infecting their husbands and in some cases are evicted from their homes as a result.
Activities
RWM works in 14 communities to secure land tenure, provide HIV-positive families with access to community health volunteers, increase women’s participation in local governance and teaches sustainable agriculture to women running community gardens.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $340
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $4,665
Total Funding Goal: $5,005
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
By empowering women to own and use land, communities in KwaZulu-Natal become self-sufficient, vibrant and healthy. Women are leading the way to creating long-term, positive impacts on their communities. Land rights are one step towards that change.
Project Message
“…To this day, women are having difficulty accessing land as their own rights as women. They do not have independent rights to land; these rights are still attached to their spouses.”
- Sizani Ngubane, Director, Rural Women’s Movement
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 13, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
December 2007 Update
By Katherine Zavala - Coordinator of Programs, December 13, 2007 06:09 PM
One of the programs RWM manages is the Rural Entrepreneurship Program, which has the long-term vision that entrepreneurs of rural communities will become expert business managers and be able to use information technology (IT) to develop and improve business performance, and as a result, improve their quality of life. To reach this vision, RWM is facilitating the establishment of cooperatives as a way to promote collective work and learning entrepreneurship in a group setting.
Through this program, RWM has facilitated the formation of groups of predominantly women and some men into groups of ten to ultimately become a cooperative. To date, RWM has assisted 7 cooperatives to register with the government department to receive services.
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