Pathways To Change

Email Address

mercedes@pathwaystochange.org.za

Phone Number

+27 823034040

Our Location

South Africa

Services

Pathways To Change

Services

Integrated programs linking health, safety, and empowerment to create lasting change for women, girls, and communities across South Africa.

Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)

  • Youth-friendly SRHR services for women, girls, and all adolescents
  • Contraception, HIV prevention, PrEP/PEP awareness
  • SRHR education for boys and young men
  • Rights-based counselling and information

Preventing & Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls

  • Trauma-informed psychosocial support
  • Strengthened referral pathways
  • Community dialogues on harmful norms
  • Engagement of men and boys as allies
  • Survivor navigation and follow-up support

Community Systems Strengthening

  • Training community leaders and youth facilitators
  • Gender-transformative education for both genders
  • Family and caregiver engagement
  • We integrate PHE principles by supporting communities to address environmental, economic and health-related factors that affect the wellbeing and safety of women and girls

Health System Strengthening

  • Provider training
  • Improved response to SRHR and GBV
  • Strengthened linkages between health, social services and justice sectors

Education System Strengthening

  • Safe campus initiatives
  • Programmes for both boys and girls
  • Violence prevention and rights awareness
  • We incorporate environmental awareness and sustainable livelihoods into youth programmes, recognising the role of economic and ecological pressures in shaping young people’s health and safety

Advocacy, Research & Policy

  • Assessments, evidence generation, policy dialogue
  • Our assessments and research explore how environmental factors intersect with SRHR, GBV and community resilience.

Capacity Building

  • Training for health workers, educators, NGOs
  • Youth-inclusive and survivor-centred approaches

Practical Support

  • Survivor accompaniment
  • Linkage to shelters and psychosocial services

Donate

If you are inspired by the work we do and want to help us strengthen the rights, health and safety of girls and women, please consider making a donation.

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Your Donation Can Change Someone’s Life

Your donation creates pathways to safety, healthcare, and dignity for women and girls while building communities where equality, respect, and healing become reality.

Opening Hours

Monday - Friday

Kimberley, South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

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