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The International Solidarity for African Union (IS) is a South African non-profit and Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) engaged in community development, care for Orphans & Vulnerable , capacity-building in combating Human Trafficking. Background:
The INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR AFRICAN UNION for the past height years has successfully achieved the following projects:
- Feeding scheme every Monda
y, Wednesday and Friday (2005-2009)
- Participated actively to the World Conference of Religions for the Millennium Development Goals 2006
- Active Member of KZN Network on Violence Against Women and thus lobbying for women rights and gender equity (2005-2009)
- Contributed to elaborate the South African Charter of Victims of Crime with the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development
- Active member of Durban Network of Service Providers to Refugee and thus lobbying for refugee rights, participating in World Refugee Day (2006-2009)
- Trained for HIV/AIDS & TB Counselling by Soul City & UNHCR (October 2007)
- We are registered in the KZN HIV – related Services Directorate, working with HIV911 & its partners to tackle the HIV pandemic.
- French language course to the Department of Home Affairs employees from KZN Province (2006) absolutely free of charge,
- Trained as IOM Certified trainer for Counter-Human Trafficking programme (Pretoria -2007)
- Organized Capacity building workshops on counter-human trafficking for South African Civil society organisation
- Participated in 2008 to the Conference on South African Domestic Violence Act, Theme: “Lesson from a Decade of Legislation & Implementation” organized by CSVR.
- 2009, trained as Trainer & facilitator on the UN Methodology called: “Community Capacity Enhancement (CCE)” to conduct in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation research & Community Dialogue in various parts of the country for resolution of conflicts & social coercion.
- Considering that its main objective was never about religion but about people, In 2007 the International Solidarity due to the lack of support from other category of funders decided to enter into partnership with a local NPO called Shadows of Hope Development Organisation & Training College to add value to their work, whilst making better use of their know-how.
- The Shadows of hope has grown very big today following our advices executing our projects all over the KZN Province.
- We are still working together with Shadows of Hope Development Organisation & Training College mostly as Project Consultants, and Mentors.
- The International Solidarity is actually writing an essay on how to cut down the crime in South Africa through promotion of Moral & Civic Education.