Week 10: Service Learning Projects!

This past week we finally chose our service learning project that we will be participating in during our month in South Africa. I will be working with a social entrepreneurship program that uses the profits of a beaded jewelry business to support programs for young children and skills training for unemployed, previously abused and battered women. In preparation for the interaction with these women we will be interacting with while working on this project, I thought looking up articles on the extent of the problem in South Africa would be interesting. The articles I found was a report titled "90 Percent of South African Women Abused" and an article titled "South Africa Violence Against Women Rated Highest in the World". Just reading about how bad the problem of abuse is, is very eye opening. I think knowing how bad it is, really puts the motive of the organization in perspective. I look forward to working on this project, to help out on this huge problem that plagues South Africa.

Article 1:

http://www.voanews.com/content/report-90-percent-of-south-african-women-abused/1564271.html

Article 2:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/south-africa-violence-against-women_n_2837804.html