Port St Johns Advice Office

LED BY: Nomboniso Ebony Gaya

MAIN CHALLENGES FACED BY THE COMMUNITY: registration of birth certificates, violations of workers’ rights, lack of service delivery by government departments.

MAIN ACTIVITIES: HIV/Aids awareness; human rights issues; economic empowerment for the youth; paralegal support.

The Port St Johns Advice Office is an established local development agency and one of the longest funded by SCAT. It was initially established in 1992 by a group of women who were concerned about the many retrenchments of mineworkers who were not being allowed to access their employment benefits. The organisation has continued to work and focus on access to justice. They are also known for their flagship beekeeping project which supplies honey products to a local branch of one of South Africa’s leading supermarkets.