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MOSSEL BAY NEWS AND VIDEO - Matla A Bana, the charity project initiated by the Callie and Monique Strydom Charity Trust this morning visited learners at the Isalathiso Primary School in Mossel Bay.
Learners filled the school’s new hall and eagerly participated in the educational theatre production intended to equip them with coping mechanisms against domestic violence and abuse.
Learners were taken through various scenarios of potential threat and were taught various ways to avoid becoming victims of crime.
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The outreach to schools forms part of a greater programme as Matla A Bana and Extreme for Kids cyclists are making their way to Cape Town. Cyclists are riding from Johannesburg to Cape Town to raise awareness on the terrible child rape statistics in South Africa.
In Mossel Bay local cyclists met with and escorted the Extreme for Kids riders on their way to Riversdale. The Extreme for Kids riders will participate in the annual Cape Town Cycle Race this weekend. Their focus is to raise awareness in order to minimise the secondary abuse children suffer when they report crimes perpetrated against them.
The Callie and Monique Trust were founded upon the return of Callie and Monique Strydom after a four-month hostage ordeal in Asia. At the end of 2002 Monique Strydom was asked to chair a task team that investigated child rape in South Africa. A need for an organization which could address all the grey areas in the child protection system in South Africa arose and the Strydom Trust undertook to address this need.
Matla a Bana is a National organization, with predominant focus in Gauteng and the Western Cape.
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