About Us

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Want to contact us?

Please direct any inquiries, comments and suggestions using the information below. We look forward to hearing from you.

PO Box 12992
Mowbray, 7705
Cape Town, South Africa
Email: info "at" engender.org.za
Tel: +27 21 447 6290

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Who are we?

Engender’s staff and Directors have devoted their lives to strategic interventions about the issues of genders and sexualities, human rights and conflict resolution in order to bring about a better future in South Africa, and a model for other parts of the world.

• Engender's Board of Directors
• Engender's Staff

 

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What is our vision and mission?

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What have we achieved?

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What does "Engender" mean to us?

For us, the actual word Engender has 3 interdependent meanings, which guides who we are as an organisation:

1. Empower: The Oxford English Reference Dictionary defines engender as to give rise to, bring about, generate.

2. Gender: Engender alludes to the notion of gender, an attempt to have us pay more attention to the issues of gender, gender discrimination, gender violence. A silent war is being fought against 50% of the world’s population, against women’s bodies and souls. No society is at peace while women and children, and some men, are raped and battered, every minute, in every city and village in the world, even as you read this.

3. Fluid and Dynamic: Engender attempts to highlight our assumptions in categorical thinking. For example, that there are only women and men, like black and white, with nothing in between. If you are not heterosexual, you must be homosexual, and that these two poles never shift, never allow for other choices in between.

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