Title: Rape Outcry
Location:
Global
Categories: Media
Human Rights
Culture
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
As the name Rape Outcry implies, our main purpose is to bring sexual abuse out into the open. By running campaigns that depict rape for what it truly is, we are hoping to bring the public to a place of accountability. We envision a society in which rape and molestation will no longer be acceptable.
Background:
Rape Outcry was founded as a non-profit organization by a South African student, Ms. Jenna-Lee Procter, in 2007 and has subsequently been supported by many other students at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa as well as the University of Osnabrueck in Osnabrueck, Germany.
Objectives:
Rape Outcry’s Mission is to empower, support and raise awareness, particularly among students and young people, that rape is unacceptable so that the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators, potential-victims and rape survivors change to lessen the incidence of rape in our lives. The focus is two-fold: mobilizing students to be more active within their institutions as well as beyond their student environments.
Milestones:
Some of the organization’s activities include a 13-week anti-rape poster campaign, No More Pussy-Footing Around, which was conducted on the South Campus of NMMU from July to October 2007 under the auspices of the HIV/AIDS Unit of NMMU. The campaign focused on breaking the silence surrounding sexual abuse by encouraging students to speak out against rape. In March 2009 two students from NMMU, including Rape Outcry’s founder, started a support group for adult sexual abuse survivors which is still running in Port Elizabeth. In addition, a group of some 20 student-volunteers did weekly arts and crafts activities with children from a crèche in Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, through one of Rape Outcry’s projects, Colour my World.
Needs:
We are always looking for volunteers who wish to assist us in facilitating support groups, running campaigns, planning and participating in our campaigns. In addition, we are needing counselors, doctors, psychologists, researchers, survivors and their families and friends to join our online community in order to support one another. Please go to www.youforum.co.za/rape_outcry to join.
All our campaigns and causes cost obviously cost money, and as an NGO we are reliant on donations and volunteers. So please email us if you can assist in anyway.
Contact Name: Jenna-Lee Procter
Contact Email Address: info@rapeoutcry.co.za
Contact Phone Number: 0792902186
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