This year, MOSAIC, a MenCare+ South Africa partner, has led three door-to-door campaigns, called “Knock and Drop,” in the Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, and Lavender Hill townships in Cape Town to raise awareness about the MenCare+ program and its activities with men and women in these communities. Door-to-door communication is an important tool to increase awareness, start conversations among community members, and recruit men to participate in the program. This campaign will be followed by educational workshops and community mobilization activities.
MenCare+ South Africa also successfully facilitated a training of counselors in Khayelitsha on preventing gender-based violence. The workshop trained counselors on the Toolkit for Men, an intervention that focuses on engaging male perpetrators of intimate partner violence in behavior change. The training was conducted in partnership with the South African Police Services’ volunteer victim empowerment officers in Khayelitsha, along with participants from the program and partner organizations from the same community. MenCare will continue to mentor the counselors as they implement the Toolkit for Men in their daily work.