{"id":46172,"date":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=3b7f1f4c588f6f077d4bff5c6a85b4f4"},"modified":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:00:00","slug":"sa-shares-victim-empowerment-support-lessons-with-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/sa-shares-victim-empowerment-support-lessons-with-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"SA shares victim empowerment support lessons with South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"
A delegation from the Republic of South Sudan is in South Africa on a victim empowerment support study tour.<\/p>\n
The delegation from the Central African country will today visit the 24-hour Gender-Based Violence Command Centre (GBVCC) in Salvokop, Tshwane.<\/p>\n
The GBVCC is a 24-hour accessible victim empowerment support tool, which deals with various cases of abuse including prevention, response, care and support for victims of gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
Amongst its services, the centre provides immediate care, counselling and offers help, hope and the chance of a better life to victims of gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo achieve this, the GBV Command Centre uses mobile technology to estimate the location of a victim, assign the case to the closest support service including professional Social Workers in the field, record and receive continuous feedback on the case. <\/p>\n
\u201cCallers can contact the command centre on 0800 428 428 or dial *120*7867#,\u201d the Department of Social Development said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The South Sudan delegation is in South Africa on a two-day Social Development-led study tour, which commenced on Tuesday by visiting a victim empowerment shelter in Bronkhorstpruit, Gauteng.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe study tour seeks to strengthen collaboration and bilateral working relations as well as sharing of lessons on victim empowerment progmammes, focusing on gender-based violence, which has been declared as a second pandemic in South Africa,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n
The department said the tour is undertaken as part of the Women\u2019s Month commemoration that takes place during the month of August annually.<\/p>\n
This year, Women\u2019s Month is observed under the theme, \u201cWomen\u2019s Socio-Economic Rights and Empowerment: Building Back Better for Women\u2019s Resilience\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A delegation from the Republic of South Sudan is in South Africa on a victim empowerment support study tour.The delegation from the Central African country will today visit the 24-hour Gender-Based Violence Command Centre (GBVCC) in Salvokop, Tshwane.T…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n