PROJECTS

The projects listed bellow are independently run but they collaborate particularly in the Non-Violent Schools Campaign. This project (with its collaborators) takes some 60% of the budget As change in society only follows changes in people's minds. QPC works as a "change agent" trying to change attitudes, prejudices and past mental - emotional training. There is no quick fix to changing these in either individual or in society but until they are acknowledged there will be no change.
Read about the Needs that exist in our communities.
Click here for details on the projects budget for years (2011-2013).

Non-violent Schools Campaign

Alternatives to Violence Project

Diversity

Young Women in Leadership

Election Monitoring Network

Reports

NEED THAT EXIST IN OUR COMMUNITIES

To help understanding of the environment in which QPC works we give below a quotation followed by a set of statistics mainly supplied by the Western Cape Department of Social Development-one of our major funders.

"In South Africa violence is the point of the crime... it was until recently part of the grammar of politics and can still be rationalised as avenging inequality... reinforced by feelings of hopelessness and anger. Violence is ingrained in South Africans from childhood. We are seeing the results of children growing up with the normalisation of violence, neglect and abuse where physical contact is not about love and nurture but about conflict and habitual violence. Children grow up lacking the capacity for empathy and the healthy inhibitions against extreme violence appear to be absent" (Mail and Guardian of 21 August 2009, quoting Barbara Holtmann of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research).

Official crime statistics give some idea of the problem. These generally indicate steadily reducing crime levels over the years but the absolute (reported) numbers of "contact" and "property related" crimes are staggering. (Source SA Police Service annual report for 2007-8).

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