Caritas Zambia Case Study

The women for change in remote and rural areas tries to fight gender based violence, in rural areas it is very difficult that gender based violence survivors especially women and children to access justice. Usually most survivors have no access to justice simply due to several factors such as long distances to service providers, customs, poverty, and low awareness levels. For this reason the women for change with the support has facilitated the establishment of village led anti gender based violence “One Stop Shops”. One stop shops are centers where there is a multi-disciplinary provision of care for victims, counselling for their psychological well-being, legal advise on what constitutes gender based violence in collaboration with the Zambian

Its aim is to foster and uphold human dignity through promotion of integral human development. The agency aims to improve outcomes for all of Zambian society, specifically targeting the poor and the marginalized. Caritas Zambia informs the marginalized of the various governmental bodies, the government’s role responsibility towards its citizens. Caritas Zambia being a Christian organization sensitizes the poor and the marginalized certain moral values such as freedom, justice, honesty, respect, and dignity.it tries to explore these topics during gatherings with community members. This familiarizes citizens with these common positive values and helps emphasize that they have responsibilities to the community as well as rights. Many communities in Zambia’s rural areas depend entirely on rain for their crops and have poor access to seeds and fertilisers. Caritas Zambia aims to improve crop yields and livestock management and achieve food security. It organizes training sessions to ensure farmers are aware of the government resources available to them, such as subsidies foe seeds, animal vaccine and fertilizer. It also ensures the community know which relevant government department personnel to contact to make these subsidies more easily accessible. This program in Zambia was operated in Mpunza. The Mpunza community is now able to take ownership of their activities. This

Below are examples of how these civil societies spread the information: the non-governmental organization organizes adult learning groups for adults as these open group discussions help increase awareness to the community, they also teach students in government schools from a young age about social rights, the legal system and access to legal support. Theatre shows is also another way that messages are sent to the community. Since most of the marginalized are not educated and it is easier to inform them of their rights through theatre shows.

From the above discussion I can conclude that popular education is a type of education that is different to other types.it deals with civil societies which tries to help the poor and the marginalized.in Zambia popular education is spread through non-governmental organizations like the one mentioned above. The methods in delivery differ differs from society to society depending on what type of information is being