Local organisation promotes healthy masculinity
They teach healthy, dignified masculinity to men all across the community.
The Institute for Healing of Memories is a NPO dedicated to social rehabilitation that provides programmes to help men develop healthy masculinity.
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The organisation is regarded as a thought leader on issues of manhood, male socialisation and its relationship to violence, and violence prevention for all women and girls.
They teach healthy, dignified masculinity to men all across the community.
The institute, according to Tumi Bopape, Gauteng programme coordinator, is an organisation with offices in Cape Town, KZN and Johannesburg.
Their Gauteng office, established this year, now services the province’s three biggest metros: Tshwane, Joburg and Ekurhuleni.
Bopape said these workshops bring men together and help them work through their emotions to have more successful and fulfilling lives.
“Our workshops are offered to victims of apartheid violence, individuals with HIV/Aids, victims and perpetrators of GBV, the LGBTQI community, refugees, communities afflicted by drugs/alcohol and gangsterism, religious communities and communities that have endured violent actions.”
“The Institute for Healing of Memories is working with men as victims and perpetrators of violence as part of the Healing Journeys for Men Project, which includes imbizos and healing of memories workshops for men in Thembisa.
“The Boys to Men programme has been taking place in Gauteng and attempts to bring young people from Thembisa, Alexandra and Mamelodi together to host seminars on issues of GBV. It is part of the Restoring Humanity youth programme. Boys who attended the seminars talked about GBV, gender roles, family violence and other topics in a monthly podcast that was released on the youth debate on the media platform in 2020 and Alexandra FM in 2021 as part of this initiative. The podcasts will be included on the Voice of Thembisa platform sometime this year as part of Restoring Humanity in Thembisa’s ongoing collaboration with them,” said Bopape.
“We hope to conduct more dialogues with stakeholders in the Thembisa community in the coming months.”
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