South Africa

A.D.A.P.T

ADAPT is committed to changing  factors that perpetuate violence against women and girl children. 

2022 The Launch of Abuse Is Not Love initiative in South Africa

7500 Youth impacted by the prevention programme by 2025

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Partnership

" Intimate Partner Violence is learned behaviour, given a chance, it can be unlearned as people are born inherently good."
Sidwell Sehoana Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention & Training - A.D.A.P.T.

Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (ADAPT) started as a small entity focusing on providing counselling for abused women in under resourced communities but due to demands, the programme offering developed  to community education, research, advocacy and lobbying to build support for women and vulnerable girl children.

Program

Abuse is not love : a 4 pillar program

1

IPV PREVENTION AND EDUCATION FOR LECTURERS 

Empower lecturers at public university institutions in South Africa with IPV prevention training  to enable them to know the early signs of abuse and support students. 

2

IPV PREVENTION AND EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Highly interactive and localized training to empower students at local universities with training that will assist them in knowing the early signs of IPV, how to seek help and support a friend experiencing IPV.  

3

INTERNAL TRAINING OF L'OREAL SOUTH AFRICA EMPLOYEES

Workshops and training seminars for L'Oreal South Africa corporate and factory teams to understand and identify abusive relationships. These workshops give them tools and resources, not only for themselves but to be agents of change in their communities. 

4

INTERNAL TRAINING OF THE ENTIRE L’ORÉAL LUXE BEAUTY ADVIVOR POPULATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Upskill Yves Saint Laurent Beauty Teams with skills to help them identify the early signs of abuse, how to seek help and support anyone that is experiencing IPV.

Results

457 people reached in a period of three months.

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ADAPT is committed to changing social values and structural factors that perpetuate violence against women and vulnerable girl children.