Karoo Centre for Human Rights
Access to Justice for All. Training and awareness raising on various forms of violence against women and available interventions. **Programmes:** 1. **Human Rights Education and Awareness Raising** — information sessions (targeting ~20 community members per session); full-day community outreach events with drama performances and speakers targeting ~300 people (focusing on children, women, and older persons); farmworker sensitisation on rights, conflict resolution, negotiation, and accountability; baseline of human rights violations through CAO case data 2. **Mentoring and Coaching of NPOs** — site visits to community structures across WC, NC, EC, and FS to build institutional capacity in: governance, financial management, product development, marketing, risk management, NPO compliance (NPO Act, SARS, labour legislation), and sustainability; creating environments that can attract government and donor funding 3. **Training and Capacity Building (targeting NPOs)** — equipping CBOs, NGOs, and FBOs with skills to deliver sustainable, people-centred, gender-mainstreamed community services 4. **Paralegal Training** — developing accessible training resources and materials for community-based paralegals; pioneering paralegal work in rural Karoo (explicitly referenced as central to KCHR's founding work) 5. **Research** — gathering baseline data on human rights violations in rural Karoo communities via CAO case reporting; informing advocacy and programme responses
Contact & Location
- 107 Donkin Street, Meiring Building, Beaufort West or 93 Donkin Street, Merino Building, Beaufort West, Western Cape, 6970
Opening Hours
Opening hours not available. Contact the organisation directly.
About
KCHR was built on a simple but urgent insight: in South Africa's rural Karoo, where agricultural land dominates the economy and farmers dominate social relationships, farmworkers and their families are among the most isolated and rights-deprived populations in the country. Human rights abuses, GBV, and labour violations thrive in this isolation — and the state infrastructure to address them is largely absent. KCHR responds through four interconnected programmes: human rights education and awareness (community sessions and large events targeting women, children, and older persons; reaching up to 300 people per event through drama, speakers, and dialogue); paralegal training (developing community-based paralegals as grassroots access-to-justice resources); mentoring and coaching of NPOs and Community Advice Offices (building institutional capacity so that rural welfare structures can function sustainably and attract funding); and research (tracking human rights violation patterns through CAO case data). For GBV survivors in the Karoo, KCHR's network of trained community advice offices and paralegals often represent the only local point of access to rights information, referrals, and support. SAPS Beaufort West: 023 414 1033. GBV Command Centre: 0800 428 428 (toll-free, 24/7).