We saw a lower number of children during the first quarter, compared to the same period last year:2021 = 544 children, vs 2020 = 655 Not unexpected, as the Covid pandemic is still negatively influencing children being brought for services. Parents are struggling and the police are thinly stretched. The [Read More]
WMACA has successfully pulled through another year in light of the economic hardships felt by the Covid pandemic. From a financial perspective, we have experienced generosity from sources and people that usually have not sponsored our sector. Having said that, we, unfortunately, lost two of our long term sponsors who [Read More]
2021/02/25 Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA) representatives were in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court this morning 25 February 2021, supporting two animal welfare organisations Community Led Animal Welfare (CLAW) and The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA)- that have brought a case of bestiality before the court. The NSPCA has [Read More]
COVID 19 and its effect on Operations As was expected, the world was in chaos from late March, with our intakes taking a sudden drop after the lockdown. In April we saw no children or parents, but did conduct telephonic intakes and some counselling. At the end of May we [Read More]
COVID-19: The Pandemic’s Impact On Mental Health While the primary threat posed by COVID-19 is to people’s physical health, the pandemic is also taking its toll on economies, social and cultural activities, and people’s mental health. Spotlight spoke to mental health experts in the public, private and NGO sectors to [Read More]
Weekend Argus – 2020/09/12 Public sex offenders’ list ‘ may not deter criminals’ Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition) 12 Sep 2020 KASHIEFA AJAM kashiefa.ajam@inl.co.za RAPISTS, child rapists and molesters are about to lose their anonymity. They might even lose their lives too – but it won’t help turn the tide on [Read More]
