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Sonke and our MenCare Campaign have been advocating for parental leave for fathers – it’s all part of promoting healthier and happier families and children, and promoting parenting as something that both male and female parents do, with the goal …
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Sonke’s Child Rights and Positive Parenting Portfolio Manager, Wessel van den Berg will be on SAfmRadio talkshop tonight at 19:30pm discussing fatherhood and equal co-parenting. You can listen online: http://www.safm.co.za/digital/player/1.0/safm/index.html SAFM Listen Live | SAFM
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Ahead of the release of the MenCare Global State of the World’s Fathers (SOWF) report, which will highlight research data, policies and programmes from around the world, related to men’s participation in fatherhood and care-giving, Sonke took to the streets …
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James chooses to re-evaluate his life and outlook while his father is unable to adapt to new ideas of masculinity.
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Zithulele is a writer and performer from South Africa. He ponders the meaning of fatherhood in his life, past and present. As a child, he was regularly disciplined and beaten by his father. As an adult, he loves his father …
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Malusi educates men and boys about gender issues in South Africa. He came to this work as a result of losing access to his young daughter. When he and her mother broke up, he was prevented from seeing her and …
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Sonke’s Executive Director, Dean Peacock, discusses some of the issues around gender and gender-based violence that Sonke tackle’s every day, how Sonke works, its impact on communities, and our urgent calls for a fully-funded National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence …
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Patrick Godana calls for the trend of absent fathers to come to an end in our lifetime. In his talk he shares some stories about …
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On a new kind of fatherhood that has gender equality and a good relationship between the parents as cornerstones.
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One girl’s reflections on the loss of her loving father vis-a-vis the typical idea of fatherhood held by society.
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June 15 marks the fourth Father’s Day I’ll spend without my dad. He died in January 2011, which means that, for me, the day most people get together to celebrate their fathers has become a poignant reminder that he is …
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MenCare is a global campaign to promote men’s involvement as equitable, responsive and non-violent fathers and caregivers. It provides high quality community and mass media messages, technical assistance and training, policy and program recommendations and evidence to support local NGOs, …
On September 20 Sonke held a Fatherhood Graduation in Lower Crossroads. The program promotes positive parenting and encourages fathers to be involved in their children’s lives. It also teaches fathers to be good role models for their kids. Fathers and …
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The importance of Hendri Terblanche’s petition to provide new fathers with ten days of paid paternity leave.
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How state-recognised paternity leave would improve quality of life for the whole family.
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This month, Hendri Terblanche gave birth to an important petition, just eight months after his twin children were born prematurely. His petition, which seeks to provide new fathers with 10 days paternity leave, was submitted to the National Council of …
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Sonke Gender Justice, the Gender Unit at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria – with the support of Irish Aid – are pleased …
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Fatherhood is a gift to children, but it’s also a gift to dads. In Khayelitsha, Themba inspires his younger brother, Andrew, who is about to become a father. For more information, please visit MenCare here.
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