Projects and Partners

South Africa

Project Funding 2008

  • Institutional support for PHM, South Africa and the “Campaign for the Right to Health Care”, PHM South Africa

  • Institutional funding, Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory (DACPM)

  • Workshop on peace work: men transforming identities and memories of violence, DACPM

  • Supporting children in families particularly affected by HIV/AIDS, Sinani

  • Masculinity and Identity Programme, Sinani

  • Supporting Zimbabwean victims of xenophobic pogroms, Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF)

Support in 2008: €90,063

Solidarity in the townships - Emergency aid for xenophobia victims in South Africa

In May 2008 a wave of xenophobic violence swept across South Africa. Nonetheless, thousands of South Africans rallied in solidarity with the victims, who were mainly from neighbouring countries. Activists from Medico’s partner organisations were in the thick of it. Medico donated 10,000 Euros from its emergency relief fund to help victims attacked or driven out of South African townships. Meanwhile, Medico’s partner in South Africa, Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), struggled to ensure medical and psychosocial care for refugees in Johannesburg. With the help of Medico funding, displaced people were given blankets, food and clothing.

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