16 Days

Mona Hakimi has joined the Communications unit. Mona is a young enthusiastic woman with fresh ideas and excellent IT skills. Mona, welcome to the GL family!We have another young sweet lady, Asithandile Mbelu, who is working as a volunteer until the holidays in December. Asithandile, or Asi, as she is fondly called, is a student at Wits Universitys studying a BCom in Economics. She is helping out on the 16 Days and at the front desk. We like having young blood around the office. Asi, you are welcome! We have many young men and women in our field offices assisting our Country Facilitators to do their work, especially this hectic period 16 Days of gender activism. You are all welcome and we hope we will get to meet you!

A special addition to GL family, a baby boy born to Ialfine named Volahy Papisy Yohann – Congratulations! We can’t wait to see him running around GL offices.

The Sixteen Days of Activism 2009 campaign ran under the umbrella of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. The Protocol calls on SADC states to halve gender violence by 2015. It has been just over a year since the adoption of the Protocol in August 2008. The Sixteen Days 2009 provides an important opportunity to assess if and how SADC member states are working towards achieving the target.