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Rights education and policy education on housing and waste management has emerged as one of the common issues with many of the communities.
With rising unemployment and the precarious nature of work, in particular for women and youth, most workers are now located in communities.
Therefore, the space for organising at community level provides opportunities for communities to build agency, know and claim their rights, including labour rights.
Over the last six years BESG’s has had interlocking programmes of Building Sustainable Human Settlements and Promoting Good Governance and Deepening Democracy. In this short video, BESG Programs Manager Duduzile Radebe provides some insights into the projects we are working on, why they matter and where we are headed next as an organisation.
Within 3 days, the floods that devastated the coastal region of KwaZulu-Natal over 11th and 12th April had caused, at an official count, nearly 12,000 houses to be partially or totally destroyed. The people most severely affected by such severe weather events live in informal settlements and rural areas, with little or no infrastructure and protection from the elements.
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DEADLINE
On 1 April 2020, just days after the imposition of the hard lockdown, BESG was one of 12 NGOs and social movements that were invited to engage with the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, on strategies to mitigate
the impact of the Covid-19 virus in informal settlements where we work.
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BESG partnered with 20 community members from Dambuza (a semi-urban township located in the greater Edendale area, outside Pietermaritzburg) on 06-JUNE 2022, to observe World Environmental Day 2022 and on 07-JUNE to coincide with World Food Safety Week.
RAISED FUNDS
NEEDED
DEADLINE
On 1 April 2020, just days after the imposition of the hard lockdown, BESG was one of 12 NGOs and social movements that were invited to engage with the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, on strategies to mitigate
the impact of the Covid-19 virus in informal settlements where we work.
RAISED FUNDS
NEEDED
PROJECT DATE
Within 3 days, the floods that devastated the coastal region of KwaZulu-Natal over 11th and 12th April had caused, at an official count, nearly 12,000 houses to be partially or totally destroyed. The people most severely affected by such severe weather events live in informal settlements and rural areas, with little or no infrastructure and protection from the elements.
RAISED FUNDS
NEEDED
DEADLINE
On 1 April 2020, just days after the imposition of the hard lockdown, BESG was one of 12 NGOs and social movements that were invited to engage with the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, on strategies to mitigate
the impact of the Covid-19 virus in informal settlements where we work.
RAISED FUNDS
NEEDED
DEADLINE
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