VOLGENS onlangse statistiek oor moord op vroue, verkragting en huishoudelike geweld, blyk dit dat genoemde misdade teen vroue drasties toeneem in Suid-Afrika. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse 2016 Bestekopname van Demografie en Gesondheid, was een uit elke vyf vroue die slagoffer van fisiese geweld. Die syfers is egter selfs ho\u00ebr in arm huishoudings, waar ten minste een uit drie vroue onderwerp is aan geweld en mishandeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skokkende syfers het ook getoon dat vroue lank in sulke verhoudings bly omdat hulle geen inkomste of ander heenkome het nie. Teen di\u00e9 agtergrond verrys daar tans in Middelburg \u2019n fasiliteit wat sulke vroue se hoop op \u2019n nuwe lewe, \u2019n werklikheid maak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat Marnene Smit vir baie jare paramediese opleiding in Pretoria by die Suid-Afrikaanse Geneeskundige Dienste gegee het, was sy gereed vir iets anders. Sy het reeds \u2019n paar keer vantevore tydens uitreike op Middelburg aangedoen, en kort voor lank het sy haarself sak en pak hier bevind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smit is aangewys as die projekbestuurder van Hands On Africa: City of Refuge wat, soos die naam s\u00ea, \u2019n plek van veiligheid en restourasie is. Mid-Karoo Express<\/i> wou by haar meer te wete kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHands On Africa, \u2019n geregistreerde nie-winsgewende organisasie, het in November 2014 besef daar is \u2019n groot gaping in die praktiese bediening onder vroue. Ons was gelukkig om die nodige eiendom en geboue te bekom en beoog om uiteindelik 40 vroue (en waar nodig ook hul minderjarige afhanklikes) te kan akkommodeer by City of Refuge,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHier wil ons \u2019n gesonde, rustige, liefdevolle omgewing skep waarbinne ons mishandelde vroue, hawelose weduwees en vroue wat pas uit rehabilitasie ontslaan is, kan help om te genees, sodat hulle uiteindelik weer tot die samelewing kan toetree met \u2019n gesonde selfbeeld, positiewe lewensuitkyk en die nodige bemagtiging om finansieel onafhanklik te kan wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns beywer ons ook vir versoening met geliefdes en verskaf ondersteuning waar nodig, sodat moeders met hul kinders herenig kan word. Ons eerste \u201csuksesverhaal\u201d is reeds weer ten volle ge\u00efntegreer in die samelewing en heraangestel in die pos wat sy vantevore beklee het,\u201d het Smit vertel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar word \u2019n pad gestap met elke vrou, en ons bedien hulle onomwonde met die Woord. Mishandeling lei baie dikwels tot dwelmverslawing, omdat slagoffers wil ontvlug aan die wreedheid van geweld en langdurige aftakeling van hul selfbeeld. Ek glo mens moet die dag van klein begin hoog ag, want uit een saadjie kom \u2019n groot oes!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smit werk tans aan \u2019n nagraadse kwalifikasie in berading. Belangstellendes of mense wat betrokke wil raak, kan hulle werksaamhede op Facebook volg by City of Refuge Home for Women of Marnene by 083 273 6771 kontak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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