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Hope to Heal Wellness Centre, a place where Healing begins and Dignity Restored.

Human trafficking is one of the fasted growing organised crimes in the world where freedom is stolen for profit. Globally millions are trapped in modern day slavery and exploited in the most heinous manner, leaving victims and survivors, brutally abused, traumatised, and mentally affected. The COVID-19 pandemic has expanded the breeding ground for criminals, leaving […]

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – January 11

Seema Naidoo People are familiar of the slave trade many years ago but not many are aware that slavery to this day exists and in a much larger scale, whereby over 30 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery. Every year thousands more people are exploited by criminals, mainly women and children. Almost every country […]

Annual message from Seema Naidoo, Founder and CEO of the Hope to Heal Foundation

2020, A year that will go down in history, the COVID-19 Pandemic gripped the world and stopped it in its track. The cruelty of the global pandemic seems limitless, whereby so many lives are affected. To contain the spread of the virus State Leaders had to bring countries under lockdown.  Businesses hard hit by the […]

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & Girls

Ms. Seema Naidoo Women and Girls have the right to Freedom of Life, Free from violence and abuse We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence, abuse, and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is […]

Outrage over recent spate of GBV related murders

Image: REUTERSA woman holds a sign as demonstrators gathered at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town in September last year during a protest against gender-based violence. South Africans have expressed their shock and outrage over the recent murders of Naledi Phandingwayo and Tshegofatso Pule who were both murdered over the weekend. Phadingwayo […]

How one of Harvey Weinstein’s first accusers is fighting back and empowering others

(CNN)Model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, one of the first women to accuse former producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, is working with a group to try to protect other models from similar situations and violations they may encounter in their work.”Models have to feel safer and understand that they are in a position of power when they speak right […]