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What is Victim Empowerment?
Victim empowerment is an approach to facilitating access to a range of services for all people who have individually or collectively suffered harm, trauma and or material loss through violence, crime, natural disaster, human accident and/or through socio-economic conditions.
Who is a victim?
A victim is any person who has suffered harm, including physical or mental injury; emotional suffering; economic loss or substantial impairment of his or her fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that are in violation of the criminal law.
Types of abuse victims may experience
Services to Victims:
All victims of abuse have the following rights
Facilities Available For Victims Of Crime
Shelters
Victims of domestic violence and other gender based crimes are accommodated for a maximum of 6 months. Some come with their children. They are not for children only; victims must be above 18 years of age. They provide physical care, life skills, counseling, liaising with schools and ECD centres for the children to go to school, with business for the placement of some survivor for jobs, with Local government for houses for the families to be released to, extended families and communities for the reintegration of victims to society. They also work with offenders and perpetrators outside the facilities on life skills to change behavior. In the Province they are as follows facilities:
Victim Support Centres
They are community based offices and are easily accessible for victims of crime. They sometimes provide overnight stay in case of an emergency and the client is then taken to shelter the following day once she has been provided with support and care. They are operated by volunteers. Due to lack of proper sites and funding, some operate within the yards of SAPS, but the process of assisting them to move out has started.
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