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MEDIA RELEASE: WITS School of Pupblic Health and The Soul City Institute for Health & Development Communication
The Soul City Institute for Health & Development Communication
The Soul City Institute is about improving lives; about changing situations for the better. It is about health communication; about individuals and communities focusing on human development. Soul City South Africa is about you – about showing you what is possible, what you can do, what social change means and how to achieve great things for your own health, your own quality of life and for those around you.
Because we are in the business of education-via-entertainment (‘edutainment’), the tools of our trade are mass media like TV; social mobilisation in the form of clubs; and advocacy via different interventions. You have probably heard of our drama shows: Soul City, Soul Buddyz, Kwanda? But we are about more than just TV. On top of these well-loved television shows, the Soul City Institute is known for:
- Being the ‘social change communication organisation’ in South Africa
- Being Africa’s biggest health and development communicator
- Being partners with local organisations in 8 Southern African countries
- Our OneLove HIV/Aids campaign, focuses on having one sexual partner at a time
- Our Phuza Wize campaign is aimed at creating safe drinking spaces and alcohol free zones and reducing the violence related to alcohol
- Our education, training and development courses and programmes
- Our ongoing research and development to find out what your needs are
What's New
About Action Institute for Environment Health and Development Communication (Action IEHDC) - Zimbabwe
Action IEHDC partnered with Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication in 2002 on a multimedia campaign to promote positive behaviour change in matters to do with health and social development. Action IEHDC became Soul City’s local Zimbabwe partner for the health communication programme that is being implemented in nine (9) other countries in Southern Africa.
Act For Children: direct support for children’s projects
The Action for Children Programme supports children through grants to local, small scale project. The funding is in the form of a matching grant – organizations raise 50% of the project costs.
