Each month GAPA runs a three-day workshop for 30 new grandmothers who are introduced to the project by grandmothers who have been through the workshops.
The workshops concentrate on practical topics: nursing skills and HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, parenting skills, vegetable gardening, human rights and abuse, bereavement, business skills, drawing up wills and how to access government grants. GAPA trained grandmothers facilitate all workshops.
Once a month an open workshop for all grandmothers is held where topical subjects are discussed. These are facilitated by local NPO’s and cover subjects such as rape, crime, elder abuse, health issues like cancer or diabetes, antiretroviral treatment for AIDS patients and parliamentary affairs.
In 2005 GAPA grandmothers made a submission to Parliament on the proposed Older Persons Bill.
