Media Alert: MEC Plato continues Women’s Month safety outreach in Elsies River

MEDIA ALERT: Minister Plato continues Women’s Month safety outreach in Elsies River

This afternoon, Wednesday 22 August 2018, Western Cape Minister of Community Safety, Dan Plato, will be hosting the Department of Community Safety’s special Women’s Month safety outreach in Elsies River.

For the duration of Women’s Month, Minister Plato is asking communities to be vigilant about women safety along the theme “Women Persist – Men Resist” in an effort to help prevent women and child killings in our communities.

The Elsies River Women’s Month outreach is the seventh instalment of the nine special Women’s focussed safety outreaches in priority in and around communities across the Western Cape, including Hanover Park, Mitchells Plain, Lavender Hill, Nyanga, Delft, Worcester, Elsies River, Gugulethu and Bredasdorp.

The safety outreaches will empower women from 46 communities with knowledge and provide a safe platform where those who have suffered abuse can not only engage and draw strength from one another, but also from various governmental departments and non-governmental organisations and the services they offer.

The Department will be partnering with the South African Police Service, Department of Correctional Services, Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the religious fraternity, South African Human Rights Council, our Safety Partners in the Community Police Forum (CPF), Neighbourhood Watches (NHWs) and Walking Bus members, as well as other non-governmental organisations for the special safety outreaches.

Women have historically help build resilient communities and this afternoon’s event in Elsies River, will see community members from Elsies River, The Range, Uitsig, Ravensmead, Clarke Estate and Leonsdale be honoured, entertained and celebrated as pillars in their respective communities of courage, hope, possibility and strength.

There will be an opportunity for photographs and interviews. Full schedule of events included below.

ALL MEDIA ARE INVITED TO ATTEND

Date:              Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Time:               16:00 – 18:00

Venue:           Adriaanse Civic Centre, 22 40th Avenue (corner Adriaanse Avenue), Elsies River