| Art for humanity employs its project in an effort to help the community deal with issues of human rights, HIV/AIDS, women and children abuse. The growth of the projects has led to the organisation teaming up with other organisations in creating awareness on such issues. |
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| The partnership sees the organisation facilitating and hosting workshops with school learners and teachers, making children aware of the different rights held by all humans while presenting them with methods on how they could protect themselves and also treat those affected with such tribulations with dignity and respect. |
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In its recent partnership AFH has teamed up with eThekwini Municipality and the Bat centre in a series of workshops taking place from 15 August to 29 August 2008. These workshops are part of the celebrate Durban sequence of events that are taking place in the city.
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| During the workshops the ‘Women for Children’ project is put to use, with the involvement of The Durban University of Technology Fine Art students and poets from the Bat Centre. |
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| The students teach the learners the different aspects of art and how art can be engaged in the effort to overpower HIV/AIDS and the violence against women and children. |
| AFH is also responsible for the workshops that were held in February as part of a pilot programme featuring more than 200 learners from Bechet High School in Sydenham. |
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| The workshops were based on AFH’s projects, ‘Women for Children’; ‘Break the Silence’ and ‘Universal Decleration of Human Rights International Print Portfolio’ and were held during the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Decleration of Human Rights close to Human Rights Day, 21st March. |
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| These workshops gave birth to the ‘Women for Children’ school banners project in which AFH selected five schools in the Durban area to participate in the programme where AFH installed two to three banners on the school premises as well as coordinating workshops with the learners and teachers. |
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| Each school chose the artwork and poem which was going to be featured on the banners installed at their schools as well as the poems to be presented in English and IsiZulu. |
| AFH made a visit to some of the schools that received the banners; one of the schools which received two banners was Mzuvele High School, a previously disadvantaged school based in KwaMashu. |
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| The school received banners featuring an artwork by artist Dina Comick titled ‘How often do we bend down to help the children’ and a poem by Mari Pete and another featuring an artwork by Kim Berman titled ‘Mothers grief’ and a poem by Mmtshilo Motsei, titled A Woman's Heart of Steel. |
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| Women for Children artist, Dina Comick came along for the visit and took the opportunity to interact with the learners and teachers in receiving feedback from them on the work that had been presented to them. |
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| AFH wishes to see this programme growing further and being adopted by other sectors as well, especially in terms of funding from the private sector to ensure that more banners and are produced and mounted in more schools even in the outskirts of KwaZulu Natal and eventually nationally and that the workshops are carried on. |
