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PASSOP
People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) is a community-based, grass roots non-profit organisation devoted to fighting for the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in Cape Town, South Africa. PASSOP believes in and advocates for equality and justice for people across all societies, irrespective of nationality, age, gender, race, creed, disability or sexual orientation. PASSOP creates and strengthens networks of communication, dialogue and interchange for the advancement of peace, understanding and justice in local communities and it is within these local communities where most of their membership resides.〔http://www.iol.co.za/index.php? Their mission is to empower communities to stand up and express their beliefs, needs and fears freely and access the rights to which they are entitled. PASSOP believes that this can be achieved through basic rights education, activism, integration and community participation.set_id=1&click_id=3069&art_id=vn20080710054824971C327450〕
PASSOP has expanded greatly in the last couple of years and now offers a range of services including: anti-xenophobia help desks that offer paralegal advice, integration events and workshops, a Disabled Children Support Project, an African Solidarity Education Project, assistance with documentation issues, ZDP Permits and Appeals, monitoring of Internally Displaced Persons camps and other advocacy and education projects.〔http://www.passop.co.za/about-us/background〕
== Founding ==
PASSOP was founded in 2007 by a group of Zimbabweans and spearheaded by Braam Hanekom. Though originally established in response to increased tensions between Zimbabwean foreign nationals fleeing Robert Mugabe's increasingly repressive regime and South African citizens who blamed them for crime and unemployment.〔http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3069&art_id=vn20080624054258675C196798〕 PASSOP has since become a leading advocate〔http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20080120093614303C253588〕 for refugees and immigrants to demand human rights in South Africa. Staffed by volunteers and funded primarily through donations, PASSOP has had a large impact on the debate around the situation of documented and undocumented immigrants in South Africa, vowing to be a “voice for the voiceless.”.〔http://www.Passop.org〕 Passop is an Afrikaans word meaning beware.〔http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,610041,00.html?iid=chix-sphere〕 PASSOP is unique amongst other South African non-profit organisations in that it is an advocacy and activist organisation that draws the majority of its members and volunteers from the refugee community.
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