An evaluation of empowering volunteers for capacity-building: a case study of Women for Peace, Nobantu Centre, Mfuleni, Western Cape

• Main Author: Burrows, Michelle Isabel
• Other Authors: Lees, Marion Keim
• Language: en
• Published: University of the Western Cape 2013
• Subjects: Capacity-building; South Africa; Community development
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2347

Magister Artium - MA === This thesis explored the empowerment needs of volunteer members of Women for Peace at the Nobantu Centre, Mfuleni in the Western Cape. The volunteer members, the majority of whom are women, come from a previously disadvantaged background created by the Apartheid system used in South Africa from 1948-1994. Apartheid driven education purposefully taught an inferior form of education to the black masses. This case study investigated the needs of the volunteer members, the impact that the four empowerment programmes had on the volunteer members and their future needs after being empowered. === South Africa