Lesley Ann Foster
East London, South Africa
I am a women's rights defender and I have a Not for Profit that works to end violence against women and girls.
I am executive director of Masimanyane Women's Support Centre. We are a social justice and human rights organisation that provides critical services to survivors of domestic abuse, rape, child abuse and sexual assault. I have been doing this work for the last 18 years and I have built up a strong organisation that in 2013 assisted more than 14 000 women and girls with counselling, paralegal services. HIV/AIDS counselling and testing. We also conduct community training programmes to prevent sexual violence.