Khutsata Education Centre

Khutsatsa Education Centre(KEC) is a rural based Non-Profit Organization (NPO) whose main aim is to capacitate or educate communities especially women and children on various topical issues such as covid-19, mental health, HIV/AIDS, disability, teenage pregnancy, early childhood care, women and children's rights ,gender, gender based violence,cancer, tuberculosis, child abuse, child marriages stigmatization and many others. Since there is a high prevalence of myths and misconceptions on just about any topical issue in Swazi rural communities such as the notion of disability being misperceived to be a curse or cancer being assumed to be caused by witchcraft. KEC seeks to provide the correct information around these less talked about and mostly taboo issues through the dissemination the correct information. KEC will achieve this through the hosting of community mobilization activities such as meetings, dialogues, talk shows, seminars, workshops, youth concerts, sporting activities. Where necessary various resource persons will be invited to educate community members otherwise most of the educational sessions will be undertaken by the Executive Director as a qualified sociologist. Through the education of community members KEC hopes to see certain indicators such as an increase in the number of domestic abuse cases reported especially to community police, a positive change of behaviour and attitudes for instance on stigmatization, the recognition and respect for women and children's rights, the demystification of discourses such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, depression etc.