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In addition to working with individual women, Musasa employs other strategies - like town meetings, theatre and television documentaries - to spread awareness.
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Unfortunately, thousands cannot escape, and the Musasa shelter can only offer limited sanctuary - a constraint that Project
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Musasa aims to confront the acceptability of violence by sensitising the public and influencing decision-makers to reform the institutions that help perpetuate it.
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In Zimbabwe, the Musasa Project was created to help women who suffered from violence, particularly violence in the home and sexual assault Musasa found that women who were beaten by their partners were not protected by the law.
Chapter 6 1997
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A 1996 Musasa study of nearly 1,000 women found that one in every 15 was frequently beaten during pregnancy.
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Despite such evidence, Musasa - set up in 1988 - did not initially find it easy to convince people about the need to expose gender violence.
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Many do not survive: a recent study by Musasa and Women in Law and Development in Africa, a non-governmental organisation, found that 59 percent of 249 murdered women were killed by their partners.
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Musasa plans to set up a house where women and children can stay when they are in danger.
Chapter 6 1997
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Staff from Musasa, a public education, counselling and research project on violence against women, interviewed a representative sample of 972 women of all races, classes and geographical areas in the province.
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Details of the house blend are given on a specials board and below are two other coffees, one a single-origin from Sumatra's Lake Toba and the other a special release from the Musasa
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