ACVV
The ACVV, formerly known as the Afrikaanse Christelike Vrouevereniging (English translation: Afrikaans Christian Women's Association) is a multicultural woman's welfare organisation in South Africa, founded in 1904. It is the oldest welfare organisation in South Africa, started to provide aid to people who were affected by the Anglo Boer War.[1]
It initially was Afrikaner-centred and conservative.[2][3][4] Women's organizations like the ACVV extended their operations beyond the realm of the home and became involved in Afrikaner education, identity and inevitably, politics.[5]
The modern ACVV is multicultural, and the website carries the motto "Together in the Service of the Community" in Afrikaans, Xhosa language Sikunye kwiinkonzo zoluntu, English and Setswana language Re mmogo mo ditirelong tsa loago. It states that it is "pepeole-centered and committed to a democratic structure that allows the input of the community. " There are now about 115 branches throughout South Africa, having provided assistance in emergencies, primary healthcare, and education, growing to social work, including assistance to children and older people.[6]
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- ^ ACVV "Die ACVV is die oudste welsynsorganisasie in SA wat omvattende maatskaplike dienste aan gesinne in nood lewer."
- ^ Nigel Worden The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy 2012 98- "For example the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging (Afrikaner Christian Women's Society), founded in 1904, was concerned with the upliftment of poor white Afrikaner women in the towns. In the process the volkmoeders of the ACVV also ...
- ^ Richard H. Elphick, T. R. H. Davenport Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural ... - 1997 p140 "Various women's organizations also came into being, the best known the ACVV (Afrikaner Christian Women's Movement). These organizations' contribution to the general advancement of Afrikaner society was quite astounding.12 "
- ^ Sheila Caffyn Patterson The Last Trek 1957 It was not until the 1930s that the network of Afrikaner voluntary associations began to assume the diversity and ... Of the women's organizations the A.C.V.V. (Afrikaanse Christelike Vrouevereniging) of the Cape (and later of South West Africa) ...
- ^ Leslie Witz Apartheid's festival: contesting South Africa's national pasts - 2003 p121 "Women's organizations like the ACVV were also extending and defending their operations beyond the realm of the home. In this context it was not sufficient to regard Afrikaner women as merely part of the domestic sphere but to incorporate ..."
- ^ "About Us". ACVV. Retrieved 2024-03-19.