Action Breaks Silence is a frontline delivery prevention education charity, established to create a world in which women and girls can live free from all forms of male violence.
Action Breaks Silence is a frontline delivery prevention education charity, established to create a world in which women and girls can live free from all forms of male violence.
Our Objectives
Action Breaks Silence is an educational, non-profit organization whose aim is to create a world where women and girls can live their lives free from male violence.
To achieve this, a multi-pronged approach is adopted and actioned through the delivery of the Action Breaks Silence Community Intervention to address violence against women and girls (VAWG) in school settings.
The intervention aims to tackle sexual harassment and sexual violence, with targeted strategies to address issues such as gender inequality and unhealthy masculinity which underpin harmful sexual behaviours. The design and delivery of the intervention is guided by the Social Norms and Active Bystander Theories and follows a “whole schools approach” (developed by AVA).
Our programmes, designed and developed by Founder and CEO Debi Steven alongside an international community of activists, academics and youth, are aimed at profoundly changing the prevailing narratives on VAWG / GBV.
The prevalence of VAWG / GBV in South Africa is such that official reports put the figure of reported rapes being perpetrated by men at more than 10 000 every quarter. It is estimated by the Medical Research Council that only 1 in every 9 rapes are reported so it is likely that this number is significantly higher.
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