Disability

Recent studies by Gender Links Botswana has revealed that ovr two thirds of women in Botswana (67) experience some form of gender violence in their life time.
The study says 44% of men admit to perpetrating violence against women . Roos van Dorp , Gender Links Program Officer told Global Post that while Botswana is doing enough to eliminate gender based violence , statistics still show that violence is still high and prevalent in the country.

The sight of a pastor is usually a relief to vulnerable people such as orphans and people with disabilities. There is little or no suspicion that the men-of-the-cloth may at any time prey on those who have invested their trust in them. Twenty five year old wheel-chair bound Chengetai Mutasa* met her fate in September 2012 when Pastor Musindo* raped her.
On the fateful day, Musindo asked Mutasa to escort him to a nearby business centre in the rural areas of Chihota, about 80km from the Harare. On the way, the pastor raped Mutasa.

A Molepolole grandmother was left disappointed and helpless after the village police allegedly failed to arrest the people who raped her mentatlly retarded grand daughter. The grand daughter is also blind. According to the granny, men and village boys are in the notorious habit of using her as a sex object even as they are aware of her condition. The granny told The Midweek Sun that in the month of April alone , she reported five rape incidents involving two Batswana men and three Zimbabweans at Molepolole police station , but did not receive any help ” The Zimbabwean men took turns sleeping with her and she forgot her clothing at their house, which led to our findings that she was raped,” said the granny

Le caractère noble de la profession d’enseignant est universellement reconnu. Enseigner Á  une personne, surtout Á  un enfant, n’est pas donné Á  tout le monde. Et c’est encore plus dur quand cet enfant est handicapé. Mais cela n’a jamais posé problème Á  la Congolaise Marie-Angèle Bungudi, qui encadre les enfants non-voyants comme voyants depuis 34 ans.

My name is Abigail Mooketsi and I am a 33-year-old mother of three children. I have two boys and one girl and I live in Orange Farm Ext. 7a. I was diagnosed with HIV in 2003. In 2005, I joined a support group for people living with HIV and AIDS at an organisation called “Let Us GrowÀ in Orange Farm.

When I first met Gender Links, they were evaluating the media reporting on gender issues in Lesotho. I am an independent journalist and broadcaster in Lesotho, and I work as a consultant, so their work was right up my alley. That meeting was organized by WLSA and was on sensitization of gender reporting in the country. To my memory, my first reaction to Gender Links was that finally there were people who understood gender and could help us to get the information out to the public, so people know what GBV is and what gender is as a concept. My mother is a gender activist, I was born and bred in a gender sensitive family.

Gender Links has changed my life. I care for people with disabilities, and I will ensure that they will contribute to the development of this country in economic, social and cultural terms. I give credit to GL for being hard working and dedicated. They have sacrificed a lot to disseminate information on gender violence. Indeed, GL wants to see a gender violence free way of life everywhere. We all want equal opportunities despite the status, race or religion of an individual.

The South African Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, Monday called for Southern African countries to develop a comprehensive, holistic and integrated approach to end gender-based violence (GBV). In her keynote address to the opening session of the third annual Gender Justice and Local Government Summit, Minister Xingwana, added that countries must continue to focus on the links between HIV and AIDS and GBV in strategies for prevention, response and support.

Tout en réclamant un changement de mentalité auprès de certains employeurs pour qu’ils recrutent les personnes handicapes, la ministre de la sécurité sociale et de la solidarité nationale, Sheila Bappoo, a laisse entendre que ces derniers peuvent désormais, avec l’adoption mardi de la Equal Opportunity Act, avoir recours a l’Equal Opportunities Commission au cas où elles s’estiment victimes de discrimination. Elles a salue l’institution d’une base de données a son ministère et d’une éventuelle Disability Act.
« Pena okenn discrimination a fer kont enn personn andikape si li ena so formatyon…Pena rezon kifer pa kapa pran li mem si li andikape », s’est écriée la ministre Bappoo. »Bizin kontigne travay ankor pou ki ena enn sanzma mantalite. Ena ankor anplawer ki senti zot mal a lez pou pran enn andikape… ». a-t-elle ajoute.
La ministre intervenait Á  la Cyber Tower I, Á  la Cyber Cite d’Ebène, lors de l’ouverture hier d’un Job and Training Fair For Persons with Disabilities, organise par son ministère en collaboration avec le Training and Employment of Disabled Persons Board(TEDPB), le ministère de l’Intégration sociale et la Mauritius Employers Association(MEF). Une quarantaine de firmes y ont participe.
Selon la ministre de la sécurité sociale et de la solidarité nationale, il nous faut pouvoir inclure les personnes handicapées dans le processus de développement du pays. « Mardi finn vot Equal Opportunity Act…Ou bizin kapav desorme ena rekour ar Equal Opportunies Commission…Dan enn sosyete modern kuma Moris, pena plas pou bann amployer ki fer diskriminasyon kont bann personn andikape », a lance la ministre.

Silvia Chungu,* now 14 years old, was born borne disabled in a village in Phalombe District, southern Malawi. When her father found out neither of her legs functioned properly, he divorced her mother just a few months after the baby girl’s birth. He married another woman after vowing that he could not be a father of a crippled child, saying someone else must have impregnated his wife.